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(LtoR) The Chairman of "Le Camp des Milles" foundation, Alain Chouraqui, French Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French President Francois Hollande and French Justice minister Christiane Taubira visit the memorial site of the Les Milles internment camp (Memorial du camp des Milles), on October 8, 2015 in Aix-en-Provence, southern France. The Camp des Milles was initially used to intern Germans and ex-Austrians living in the Marseille area and became by 1940 a "camp for undesirable people" when some 3,500 artists and intellectuals were detained there. In 1942 the camp became a transit and deportation camp. Some 10,000 people transited there, among whom 2,500 Jewish men, women and children were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images)