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Drancy

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Drancy (dräNsē`), city (1990 pop. 60,928), Seine–Saint Denis dept., N central France. An industrial suburb NE of Paris, Drancy produces automobile brakes, aircraft, and hardware. There are also breweries and printing plants. During World War II, Drancy was the site of a Nazi concentration camp.
Drancy
concentration camp; France’s largest Jewish deportation center. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 161]
See : Brutality


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tatiana de Rosnay focuses a fictional lens on Paris during the Occupation, with a poor Polish-born family arrested and sent to the notorious Vel' d'Hiver stadium and thence to Drancy and Auschwitz.
Wearing a dark overcoat and a large black beret, suitcase in hand, he soon departed with a "stiff but correct German officer," and after three days in Orleans, was taken by train to the internment camp at Drancy just outside Paris.
It was during a random identity check in Nice that Veil, then 16, was arrested by German police who rounded up her mother, sister and brother and deported them to the Paris suburb of Drancy, the transit point for French Jews.
 
 
 
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