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Fort de Romainville
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How to send mail, money, and visit Fort de Romainville
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Gallery
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Background
Fort de Romainville, (in English, Fort Romainville) was built in France in the 1830s and was used as a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
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Occupancy
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
Les Lilas
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Alphonse Rigaud1905–1943 · driver
- Alexandre Lecler1888–1942
- Jean Rimbert1924–1943
- Jean Damichel1908–1941 · school teacher
- Marcel Lamant1912–1942 · resistance fighter
- Marie Roserot de Melin1891–1962 · nurse
- Maurice Schmitt1899–1943
- Antoine Arbona1899–1943 · cultivator
- Bernard Kirschen1921–1942 · student
Showing 9 of 12. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q803523)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Fort de Romainville. Retrieved July 22, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fort-de-romainville
Chicago
"Fort de Romainville." World Prisons. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fort-de-romainville.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-fort-de-romainville,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Fort de Romainville},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fort-de-romainville},
urldate = {2026-07-22}
}