Lacaune-les-Bains is a resort town in the Tarn Département, located approximately 101 kilometers (63 miles) east of Toulouse. The town was sufficiently remote that the prefectural authorities designated it as a center for residential assignment (assignation à residence). On January 13, 1942, a letter from the Tarn prefect to the mayor of Lacaune, Henri Viguier, announced that the prefect of the Toulouse area, Léopold Chénaux de Leyritz, designated Lacaune as the regional center for residential assignment for unwanted foreigners, in accordance with the November 3, 1941, memorandum.1 According to historian Sandra Marc, more than 750 Jews, most of whom were foreigners, were detained there between 1942 and 1943. The first Jews to be detained in Lacaune originated from three locations: Luchon, the spa resort of the Haute-Garonne Département that had been turned into a center for residential assignment (209 people); Toulouse and its surroundings (184 people); and Pau (140 people). During ...