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Nord department, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region. The military burials in the Dunkirk Town Cemetery are managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Their website is www.cwgc.org. More information on Jewish Commonwealth casualties is also available at www.jewishwargraves.org. Photographs of many Commonwealth War burials are available via the War Graves Photographic Project. Their website is https://twgpp.org/. Information and photographs of the Jewish burials in the Dunkirk region was provided by Jean-Marc Alcalay of Dunkerque. He is the author of many works including la plume et le fusil 1940, Des Ecrivains dans la Tormente de Dunkerque. Ysec editions. 2008, La Deportation Des Juifs De Dunkerque. Généalogie et Histoire du Dunkerquois / G.H.Dk., and Histoire des combattants juifs de la Brigade Blindée Indépendante Tchécoslovaque pendant le siège de Dunkerque (1944-1945)
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