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Notable Prisoners

  • Émile Goué, French composer.
  • Pierre Jacobsen, escaped October 1941. Later the first Deputy Director-General of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM).
  • Élie de Rothschild, banker and businessman.
  • Marian Konopiński, Capuchin friar and Catholic priest. One of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs, beatified in 1999.

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