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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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What the ceremony commemorated was the Velodrome d'Hiver roundup in July 1942, when 8,000 French Jews were arrested over two days and detained at a sports stadium in Drancy.
Many French citizens still claim, for instance, that rounded-up Jews were sent "only" to Drancy, a way-station camp near Paris, and that the transport in Nazi cattle-cars to Auschwitz was a "German" affair.
Among the thousand Jews and Christians present at Drancy for the French Declaration of Repentance was Jean-Marie Lustiger.
 
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