Drancy internment camp (French: Camp d'internement de Drancy) was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination...
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Such "transit camps" included Drancy, Pithiviers, etc. In particular, Pithiviers was used in 1941 for the green ticket roundup, and Drancy in 1942 for the...
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the Drancy internment camp to the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, where they were murdered. Serge Klarsfeld described the camp as the Drancy of the...
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in the Drancy internment camp awaiting transport to Auschwitz. In her biography of the painter Charlotte Salomon, who was transported from Drancy to Auschwitz...
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During World War II, she was captured by the Nazis and sent to Drancy internment camp. She became one of the wealthiest women in Europe. In 1964, she...
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the castle of Ladoucette in Drancy was destroyed. During World War II, Drancy was the site of the Drancy internment camp where Jews, Gypsies, and others...
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Alois Brunner (category Drancy internment camp)
was stationed in Thessaloniki. He then became commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, during which nearly...
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sent to Drancy internment camp. One of his books is dedicated "To Line and To the students and teachers of the School in the Camp de Drancy". Having...
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This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government...
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camps were also used to intern French communists. Drancy internment camp was founded in 1939 for this use; it later became the central transit camp through...
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Denise Holstein (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
first time during the round-up of 6 May 1942 and interned in the Drancy internment camp. He was liberated three months later, in August 1942. Denise's brother...
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René Blum (impresario) (category Drancy internment camp prisoners)
Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp, then in the Drancy internment camp. On 23 September 1942 he was shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was murdered...
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included: Alois Brunner, Eichmann's assistant and Commander of Drancy internment camp, was one of the key figures in implementing the Final Solution....
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taken to the Drancy, Pithiviers, and Beaune-la-Rolande internment camps, before being deported in rail cattle cars to concentration camps, mainly Auschwitz...
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Max Scheuer (category Drancy internment camp prisoners)
Switzerland. Aged 45, Scheuer was sent to Drancy internment camp in France, and then to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed in the early 1940s...
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the camp of Mérignac and then they were transported to Drancy internment camp, near Paris, and finally to Auschwitz or other concentration camps for extermination...
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the U.S. from 1942 to 1945, having been interned as a Jew at the Drancy internment camp (north-east of Paris) and then escaped. He began his career as a...
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Victor Perez (Tunisian boxer) (category Drancy internment camp prisoners)
Vichy Regime. He was detained in the Drancy internment camp before being transported to the German extermination camp of Auschwitz where he was assigned...
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Ginette Kolinka (category Drancy internment camp prisoners)
ready for use. Between 1941 and 1944 the site was repurposed as the Drancy internment camp, initially administered by the French police service and later under...
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Épuration légale (section Internment of accused)
collaborationists. In Paris, these included the Velodrome d'Hiver, the Drancy internment camp (managed by the Resistance until the arrival of the gendarmerie...
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the camp of Royallieu near Compiègne, in the Northern Zone of France, and then to Drancy internment camp, last stop before the extermination camps. The...
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of Jews deported from the Drancy internment camp to the Bobigny train station for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. This convoy, besides the...
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responsible for the Drancy internment camp near Paris and in charge of deportations in Slovakia to German concentration camps; Erich Priebke, who was...
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1945 Extermination camps Forced-labor camps Polenlager Transit camps (Nazi Germany), such as Drancy transit camp This set index article includes a list...
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The Holocaust in France (section Drancy camp)
to the arrest of 4,232 French and foreign Jews who were taken to Drancy internment camp. Deportations began on 27 March 1942, when the first convoy left...
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were subsequently rounded up at Drancy internment camp before being deported for extermination in Nazi concentration camps. The denaturalization law was...
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arrested under the Vichy anti-Jewish legislation, and sent to the Drancy internment camp, and then handed over by the French Vichy government to the Germans...
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84 of whom were then sent to the Drancy internment camp. Ultimately 83 people were deported to the extermination camps of Sobibor and Auschwitz, and to...
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transported by SNCF to the Drancy internment camp in 1944. Lipietz was held at the internment camp for several months before the camp was liberated. After Lipietz's...
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Rose Warfman (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
in March 1944, taken to Drancy internment camp, and from there, on convoy 72, on 29 April 1944, to Auschwitz concentration camp. Her sister Antoinette...
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