The old working of Marseilles
to increase
Marseilles about 1900
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Old workings - Quay Marshal Pétain (quay of the Port)
(photo catch top of the transporter bridge - 1943)
Soon this district will be emptied of these inhabitants and will be destroyed
Fishermen and badauds at the edge of the quay Pétain Marshal with some steps of the Town hall.
The street of the Cabin (at the bottom the Town hall)
In certain lanes of the women lived of their charm
January 6, 1943, the higher Head of the SS and Font Oberg arrives to Marseilles on command of Himmler.

13 and l4 January 1943, talks decisive between Oberg and the Secretary-general with French font Bousquet in connection with the raids, of the deportation of people and the dynamiting of the Old Port.

January 14, 1943, visit in Marseilles of the marshal von Runstedt, head of the High-Command in the west.

January 18, 1943, Himmler again requires " for the purification of Marseilles a radical solution and supplements... ". Regional Prefect Lemoine gives instructions to the French font to stop, inter alia, all the Jews.

January 22, 1943, beginning of the raids in Marseilles. Almost 6.000 people are temporarily in a state of detention.

January 23, 1943, last conference between Oberg and Bousquet with the town hall.
Last conference with
town hallof Marseilles,
Obergand controlling it SS Griese
(23. 1. 1943)
Of left on the right: Griesse, Lemoine,
one SS, Bousquet, Barraud
(Prefect delegated to the administration of Marseilles)
(23. 1. 1943)


January 24, 1943, deportation of 1.642 people among whom at least 782 French and foreign Jews in the camp of Compiegne. Evacuation of the inhabitants of the Old Port, provisional internment in Fréjus.

31 Janvier 1943, a certain number of Marseilles Jews is sent from Frejus in Compiegne.

February 1, 1943, beginning of the dynamiting of the Old Port by German engineering.

March the 23, and 25 1943, the Jews stopped in Marseilles, which were sent the 8 and on March 9 of Compiegne to Drancy, are off-set in the convoys n° 52 and 53 for the death camp of Sobibor, no survivor.