Ain Sefra (Aïn Séfra or Aïn Sefra) is located in Algeria, 93 kilometers (almost 58 miles) south of Mecheria and almost 199 kilometers (nearly 124 miles) northeast of Colomb-Béchar. Ain Sefra was also the name of the military territory that included such camps as Djenien Bou Rezg and Colomb-Béchar. The Ain Sefra camp was one of the Vichy forced labor camps established in North Africa after the Franco-German Armistice in June 1940. In June 1940, the French Foreign Legion (Légion Étrangère, LE) was disbanded, and its volunteers engaged for the duration of the war (Engagés volontaires à la Légion étrangère pour la durée de la guerre, EVDG) were sent to camps in North Africa such as Ain Sefra. In December 1941, two companies of the LE 1st Regiment in Algeria were sent to the camps at Ain Sefra and Saida. Each company had 200 to 300 men, about a third of whom were Spanish. There was a hospital in the town of Ain Sefra. There is little documentation on prisoner demographics, prisoner names...