The SUPERVISES STAY CENTER OF NOE was created on February 7, 1941.
It was a "hospital-camp" intended for the more than 60 years old households and for the disabled persons, built on a 15 hectares ground belonging to National Defense.
The installations were more accessible there than the huts of the other camps. The total capacity of the camp was 1,600 people.
Letter of an interned Jewish dated 30-9-1941.
April 1, 1941, it lodged 1,536 people including 701 Jews; in February 1941, 601 internees from GURS had arrived in NOE. It was tuberculous and a large majority of Jews from Bade deported in October 1940. They joined also 400 Jews from the Camp of AGDE and 40 internees from BRENS. Spanish Republicans and other members of the International Brigades, wounded or crippled, also came in NOE.
Inside this hospital-camp a “medical section” was organised which will be completed in May 1941. It will contain a phthisiology center made up of several huts isolated from the rest of the camp and arranged to receive 150 tuberculous, two infirmaries intended for the other patients and a house gathering “pharmacy services”, the room of bandages and consultation, the doctor and the sister offices.
Medical staff was composed of 27 people: a doctor, a head nurse and 25 nurses helped by a few tens of doctors and voluntary interned male nurses.
Letter of an interned german dated 23-10-1941, destinated to NEW YORK (USA).
Purple seal :
CENTRE DE SEJOUR SURVEILLE
DU CAMP DE NOE (H-G)
SURETE NATIONALE
*
CONTROLE
The living conditions, acceptable at the beginning, were degraded quickly in consequence of an insufficiency of the equipment. A serious food shortage will be added to it which deteriorated even more the medical state of certain patients; some will have to be hospitalized besides TOULOUSE.
In December 1941, the infirmary will be closed and the tuberculous ones transferred to the SUPERVISED SANATORIUM OF LA GUICHE.
Lettre an internee at VITTEL, dated 15-6-1941 and destinated to an internee
at the "CENTRE DE SEJOUR SURVEILLE DE NOE".
It contains a blue seal similar to the preceeding lettre
but with the words CONTROLE POSTAL.
It is noticable that mail exchanged between a German camp (here FRONTSTALAG 142 at VITTEL) and a French camp (NOE) is very rare.
The raids of 1942 in southern zone will cause the arrival in NOE of a significant number of Jews. In August and September 1942, 530 of them will form part of four convoys representing on the whole 4,000 Jews which will start from DRANCY to AUSCHWITZ.
Lettre from an internee at "CENTRE DE SEJOUR SURVEILLE DE NOE",
dated 23-11-1941, for NEW-YORK-CITY (U.S.A.).
Purple seal "Controle N.3".
The old or seriously ill internees being still at NOE in September 1943 have been forwarded to the old people's homes of the area. At that time, NOE will not be considered as an “hospital-camp” anymore.
Postcard dated 19-12-1942 from an internee at
"CENTRE DE SEJOUR SURVEILLE DE NOE", to LYON.
Blue seal (a little bit larger) "Controle n.4".
31/12/2009