Drancy internment camp

Drancy
Drancy
Transit camp
	The accommodation block at Drancy with French policeman on guard
	Location of Drancy within France
Location	Drancy, France
Operated by	French police (until 1943); Nazi Germany
Commandant	Theodor Dannecker; Alois Brunner
Original use	Utopian urban community
Operational	20 August 1941 – 17 August 1944
Inmates	French, Polish, Czechoslovak, and German Jews
Number of inmates	67,400 deported; 1,542 remaining at liberation
Liberated by	French Resistance (indirectly Western Allies (Mainly the United Kingdom and United States))
Notable inmates	Tristan Bernard, Eduard Bloch, René Blum, Max van Dam, Max Jacob, Charlotte Salomon, Simone Veil
Website	http://drancy.memorialdelashoah.org/en/

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 camps during the German occupation of France during World War II. Originally conceived and built as a modernist urban community under the name La Cité de la Muette, it was located in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, France.

Between 22 June 1942 and 31 July 1944, during its use as an internment camp, 67,400 French, Polish, and German Jews were deported from the camp in 64 rail operations,^[1] which included 6,000 children. Only 1,542 prisoners remained alive at the camp when the German authorities in Drancy fled as Allied forces advanced and the Swedish Consul-General Raoul Nordling took control of the camp on 17 August 1944, before handing it over to the French Red Cross to care for the survivors.^[2]

Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was taken over by the SS, which placed officer Alois Brunner in charge of the camp. In 2001, Brunner's case was brought before a French court by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, which sentenced Brunner in absentia to a life sentence for crimes against humanity.^[3]

^ "This Month in Holocaust History – December – Drancy". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 20 April 2010. The 61,000 deported to Auschwitz and remaining number to Sobibor were murdered.
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^ "Alois Brunner". Jewish Virtual Library.

[yadVashemMonthDecember-1] "This Month in Holocaust History – December – Drancy". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 20 April 2010. The 61,000 deported to Auschwitz and remaining number to Sobibor were murdered.

[ushmm-2] Cite error: The named reference ushmm was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Bio-3] "Alois Brunner". Jewish Virtual Library.

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