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G1 Crest (F)

During the First World War, “Gypsy” families from Alsace- Lorraine were interned in an old monastery in the village of Crest, in southeast France. A hundred and sixty men, women and children were held there for four years. Ten of them died there.

A Roma family from Lorraine in the internment camp in Crest in southern France, where they were held for four years.
© Collection of Emmanuel Filhol, Bordeaux, France.
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