Explore: Drancy (internment Camp)

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

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

with Pithiviers, Drancy, and Compiègne, formed the core of the internment and deportation system for Jews in northern France. These camps held almost exclusively

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

was stationed in Thessaloniki. He then became commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, during which nearly

the Drancy internment camp to the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, where they were murdered. Serge Klarsfeld described the camp as the Drancy of the

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

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

transferred to the Drancy internment camp. From there, most were deported to Nazi extermination camps and murdered. Within the camp, Jewish prisoners were

taken to the Drancy, Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande internment camps before being deported in cattle cars to Nazi concentration camps, primarily Auschwitz