- Contributed by听
- Bernard de Neumann
- People in story:听
- Peter de Neumann, GM, Seamen, Civilians
- Location of story:听
- North, West and East Africa
- Background to story:听
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:听
- A8037335
- Contributed on:听
- 25 December 2005
I have been researching the location of Concentration camps, POW camps, and Internment camps in (Vichy)West and (Vichy) North Africa. I also think there may have been one in the Mogadishu area of East Africa, and also in Madagascar.
The camps I know of are:
West Africa:
Conakry
Timbuctoo
KanKan
Koulikorro
Dakar
North Africa:
Sfax
El Kef
Laghouat
Geryville.
Also camps connected to the LACONIA incident:
Mediouna (near Casablanca)
Qued-Zen (near Casablanca)
Sidi-el-Avachi (near Azemmour)
Plus the following camps which are under investigation:
Taza
Fes
Oujda
Sidi-bel-Abbes
Berguent
Settat
Sidi-el-Ayachi
Qued Zem
Mecheria
The camps at Conakry, Timbuctoo, and Kankan had no running water, no electricity, no gas, no electric light no sewers no toilets, and no baths.
The prisoners were housed in native accommodation - mud huts and houses, and a tractor shed. The Vichy French authorities in West Africa called the camps at Conakry, Timbuctoo, and Kankan, concentration camps. My father (British) was a prisoner in all three of them.
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