SICK

Oh how much pain I’ve seen… Some forgot that my main mission in the 1920s was to save souls from tuberculosis … and transformed me into a concentration camp from 1940 to 1942.

View from a front room, late 1950s. Taken from CorinaO’s personal old post card collection, photo credits to : Unknown

Initially intended for 180 prisoners, more than 1500 men and women have been held and hundreds were dispatched to extermination camps in Germany.

I was closed and then re-opened in 1946 but as antibiotics came and tuberculosis regressed, the public authorities made me a medical center! The infrastructures starting to get old, my wings started closing one by one, starting in 1987 and the last being closed in 2001.

I have, however, been featured in many short films and video clips since I was closed, and a complete horror film in 2020.

Not all is lost though, a private company specialised in the renovation of historical heritage has recently bought me. A 30 million euro project will start in 2021 to make me into …. 124 luxury appartments by 2023 :

Preview of the future renovations, Photo credits : https://francois1er.com/portfolio/pavillon-des-tamaris-aincourt/