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French President François Hollande attends a remembrance ceremony at 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)