Drancy internment camp - Wikipedia
WEBDrancy internment camp (French: Camp d'internement de Drancy) was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II.
Drancy | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WEBIn August 1941, the Germans established an internment camp at Drancy, following the arrest of more than 4,200 Jewish men in Paris. Beginning in summer 1942, Drancy became the major transit camp for the deportations of Jews from France.
Drancy Camp Established | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WEBAugust 20, 1941. Drancy Camp Established. In Drancy, France, German authorities open an internment and transit camp for Jews. The SS eventually deports Jews captured in France from Drancy to Auschwitz -Birkenau and the Sobibor killing center.
Drancy - Photographs | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WEBFewer than 2,000 of the almost 65,000 Jews deported from the Drancy camp survived the Holocaust. The Germans established the Drancy camp in France in August 1941. Drancy later became the major transit camp for the deportations of Jews from France.
The Dark Past and Unsettled Present of a Paris Housing Project
WEBAug 30, 2019 · The Germans called Drancy a “ durchgangslager ” or “transit camp”—“durchgang” meaning “the way through.” Nearly eight decades later, the repurposed housing complex remains a place of transit...
Deaths in the Drancy internment camp (1941–1944)
WEBMay 8, 2020 · 1The Drancy internment camp served for fifty years as the fictional place of death for tens of thousands of deported Jews, but it was also a very real place of death for several hundred of its internees. We still know very little about these “true” Drancy deaths: their names and identities, as well as where they were buried, remain a mystery.
The Drancy Camp | Sciences Po Mass Violence and Resistance
WEBNov 20, 2007 · The Cité de la Muette (the La Muette complex, a housing development) was situated in the district of Drancy, 12 kilometers northeast of , and served as an internment camp for 67,000 of the 75,000 mostly foreign Jews deported from France during the Second World War, before they were sent to death camps in Poland.
Drancy internment camp - Wikiwand
WEBDrancy internment camp was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II.
About the Camp | Children of Drancy - Northeastern University
WEBFirst intended as a low-rent housing complex in the 1930s, it was converted into an internment camp for political prisoners even before the war. It then became a convenient staging place for the roundup and deportations of Jews to the East, something that began as early as 1941 and grew to large numbers with the massive roundups of July 1942.
The Drancy file - Cross-Files | ICRC Archives, audiovisual and library
WEBJan 11, 2022 · From 21 August 1941, the Drancy camp was the primary internment camp for Jews in France. The camp was run by the Seine police prefecture and overseen by German authorities until 2 July 1943, when the Nazi security services took over.
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