Fort de Romainville

Fort de Romainville
Transit camp
Entrance archway
Location of Fort de Romainville within Paris and inner ring
Fort de Romainville (France)
Coordinates48°53′06″N 2°25′22″E / 48.885126°N 2.422718°E / 48.885126; 2.422718
LocationLes Lilas, Île-de-France
Occupied France
Built bySecond French Republic
Operated bySS
CommandantBickenbach
Original useMilitary fort for the protection of Paris
First built1844–48
OperationalOctober 1940 – 19 August 1944
InmatesFrench Resistance, French communists
Killed152
Notable inmatesPierre Georges, Danielle Casanova, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, Hélène Solomon-Langevin, Charlotte Delbo

Fort de Romainville, (in English, Fort Romainville) was built in France in the 1830s and was used as a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.

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