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Concentration camp of Miranda de Ebro

Miranda de Ebro, Ebro, Burgos

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Concentration camp of Miranda de Ebro

Historical milestone · Miranda de Ebro, Ebro, Burgos

The Miranda de Ebro concentration camp was created in July 1937, with advice from the Nazi SS, on a 42,000-square-metre plot belonging to the company Sulfatos Españoles, between the railway tracks and the Bayas river, and remained open until 1947, the last to close in Spain. The BOE had ordered on 5 July of that year the construction of four camps in Burgos to relieve the overcrowding of Republican prisoners captured in the north, and Miranda was chosen for its closeness to the front and its good communications; the townspeople themselves, forced to do so, built the enclosure in barely two months, in appalling conditions. With capacity planned for 1,500 prisoners, that limit was soon exceeded; over time around 80,000 prisoners would pass through the camp, close to 15,000 of them foreigners.

1937-1947

Photo: BernardaAlba (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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