The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

The Wehrmacht established the Ksar Tyr labor camp on December 9, 1942. The Jews lived in the stables of a farm. The interned Jewish forced laborers performed various tasks. At least one forced laborer died here when his preexisting illness grew worse and he was not given any medical treatment. There was a Jewish camp leader (chef Juif de camp) in Ksar Tyr. German soldiers served as guards. One former inmate reported—describing, as it were, a noteworthy event in the short history of the camp—that a Jewish doctor and a member of the Committee for Recruitment inspected the camp at the end of December 1942. They did not relieve obviously sick forced laborers from work but classified them as fit for duty. The camp was dissolved on January 9, 1943, and the remaining inmates were transferred to the labor camp at Massicault.