envelope, From: Lantier, Henri To: His wife in Lagnhet (Alpes-Maritimes) - [field_prison_camp-formatted] May 1940

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Letter

Source: 
envelope
Source: 
letter
Relation: 
Internment and Transit Camps Correspondence
Creator: 
Lantier, Henri
Sender: 
Lantier, Henri
Recipient: 
His wife in Lagnhet (Alpes-Maritimes)
Date: 
May 1940
Language: 
fre
Notes: 
1 of 16 letters to his wife from the Camp des Garrigues during May 1940 while Lantier was a soldier. He must have been released into civilian life in 1940 after the German invasion of France and was arrested a few years later and put in the camp in Modane. During the Occupation, the camp des Garrigues became an internment camp for refugees.

Prison & Prisoner

Internment Camp: 
Modane (Camp de Garrigues)
Coverage: 
France
Prisoner Name: 
Lantier, Henri

Series & Subject

Subject: 
World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection
Sub-series: 
Letters from Modane

Technical

Rights: 
Rights: Copyright: The creator of the document, or his or her Estate. McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Contributor: 
McMaster University Libraries
Publisher: 
McMaster University
Date Digitized: 
July 02, 2009
Format: 
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Type: 
image
Identifier: 
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