Conférence-spectacle : Les échappées musicales du Camp de Gurs

Lecture and performance presented by Mélina Burleaud, a Franco-German historian and pianist

Organized by the Université du Temps Libre du Pays Villeréalais.

The Gurs camp was an internment camp built near Oloron-Sainte-Marie by the government of Édouard Daladier between March 15 and April 25, 1939.

It was one of the largest such camps in France at that time. 18,185 men, women, and children—all foreign Jews interned due to the state anti-Semitism practiced by the Vichy regime—were systematically deported from there to Auschwitz.

“The Musical Escapes of Gurs”—a performance presented by talented artists, Mélina Burleaud, a musician, and Claire Beaudouin, a soprano, is based on texts and music discovered before the camp’s demolition. It is dedicated in particular to the works of female prisoners, including Hannah Arendt.