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Renee Kann Silver with her siblings and her mother at Gurs Internment Camp.

The Kann Family in Gurs Internment Camp

The Kann family was interned in the Gurs concentration camp in southwest France. They were interned after the capitulation of France because they were considered Germans (rather than Jews) and thus, enemies of France. Later, this camp was used to hold the Jews arrested in the southern zone and administered by the government in Vichy.