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unusual facts about Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp


Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp

Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp was a French-run Nazi transit camp for Jews in Beaune-la-Rolande, France.


Argos Energies

For the storage of oil products Argos operates terminals and depots in the Netherlands (Rotterdam Pernis), Belgium (Ghent), Germany (Emmerich am Rhein) and France (Chalon-sur-Saône and Beaune-la-Rolande).

Chorey-les-Beaune

The soils are composed mostly of quaternary detrital and alluvial fills, and the wines tend to be thinner and less complex than those grown on the Jurassic limestone, gravels, and marls of the slopes from which the better quality wines of the Côte d'Or come.

Festival du Film Policier de Cognac

However another famed wine city, Beaune, Côte d'Or, saw value in the format and launched a successor in 2009, the Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune.

Gaston Chevrolet

Born near Beaune, in the Côte-d'Or department of France where his Swiss parents had emigrated to a few years earlier, he was the younger brother of Louis (1878–1941, founder of the Chevrolet car company) and Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946).

Maison Joseph Drouhin

Beaune Clos des Mouches Joseph Drouhin is made from grapes grown in the Clos des Mouches, a Beaune Premier Cru vineyard of the Côte de Beaune.

Maurice Emmanuel

Brought up in Dijon, Marie François Maurice Emmanuel became a chorister at Beaune cathedral after his family moved to the city in 1869.

Max Léglise

Most of his career was spent working at the Station œnologique de Bourgogne (INRA, Beaune), where he entered in 1948, and that he directed from 1962 to 1984.

Robert of Molesme

Renaud, the viscount of Beaune, owned a desolate valley in a deep forest, which he gave to Robert and his companions, and thus they founded Cîteaux Abbey.

Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness

Following a year of service in the United States Army Air Service in Western Europe, Gjelsness was discharged to serve as a reference librarian at the American Expeditionary Forces University in Beaune, France.

Tuvia Friling

He was subsequently interned in Beaune-la-Rolande, where he became the leader of the camp's inmates.

Veilly

In this respect, its location is ideal : next to the wine producing area (Hautes Côtes de Beaune), to the vast and deep forest of Le Morvan, and to rich farming and growing areas (L’Auxois).

Walter M. Chandler

He served as member of the faculty and lecturer at the American Expeditionary Force University at Beaune, France, during World War I.


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