Of them, 560 would be deported to Drancy internment camp on 31 August 1942.

In 2001, SNCF was sued by the father of MEP Alain Lipietz because of the railroad ’ s role in transporting members of his family to the Drancy internment camp during World War II.

On May 6, 1981 details about his past under Vichy emerged, when Le Canard enchaîné newspaper published documents signed by Papon that showed his responsibility in the deportation of 1, 690 Bordeaux Jews to Drancy internment camp from 1942 to 1944.

The majority were sent directly to the camp of Mérignac, from which they were transported to Drancy internment camp at the outskirts of Paris, and finally Auschwitz or similar concentration camps for extermination.

" As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140, 000 European Jews to the gas chambers.

Before being named commander of Drancy internment camp near Paris, Brunner deported 43, 000 Jews from Vienna and 46, 000 from Salonika.

As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, he directed the round-up and transport of some 140, 000 European Jews to the Nazi gas chambers in eastern Europe.

He was held in the Beaune-la-Rolande camp, then in the Drancy internment camp.

* Drancy internment camp

Because of his Jewish origin, he was arrested during the German occupation of France and sent to Drancy internment camp.

He was in 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.

The Drancy internment camp | concentration camp at Drancy, outside Paris, where Jews were confined until they were deported to the death camps.

The internment camp at Drancy, outside Paris, where Jews were confined until they were deported to the death camps.

The Drancy internment camp became identified by the northeastern suburb of Paris in which it was located.

Hudal used this position to aid the escape of wanted Nazi war criminals, including Franz Stangl, commanding officer of Treblinka, Gustav Wagner, commanding officer of Sobibor, Alois Brunner, responsible for the Drancy internment camp near Paris and in charge of deportations in Slovakia to German concentration camps, and Adolf Eichmann — a fact about which he was later unashamedly open.

He used his reputation during this time to help his Jewish friends but lost the oldest-established among them, Max Jacob, who died in the Drancy internment camp.

About 2, 000 of the inmates were shipped off to the Drancy internment camp on the way to Auschwitz.

Of these, 46 percent were deported from the former Mechelen transit camp, while a further 5, 034 people were deported via the Drancy internment camp ( close to Paris ).

He was interned during World War II at the Drancy deportation camp.

In a precedent-setting case brought by Alain and his sister, SNCF, the national railway of France, was ordered on June 6, 2006, to pay almost $ 80, 000 in reparations for transporting members of their family to the Drancy deportation camp during World War II.

Most of these were then deported from there to Auschwitz ( via the Drancy deportation camp, on the outskirts of Paris ) between August and November 1942.

* Tristan Bernard is released from the Drancy deportation camp.

Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory, though there were French-run temporary camps such as the one at Drancy.

At the border they were captured by the French police, but just as they were about to be deported to the Drancy deportation camp, they were rescued by the resistance, who helped them over the border.

Nearly 24, 000 of them were deported from the Drancy camp.

In 1944, unknown to Jimmy, his mother was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp from Drancy, a detention camp near Paris.

During the second world war, Drancy was the site of the Drancy deportation camp where Jews, Gypsies, and others were held before being shipped to the German concentration camps.

In 1976, the Memorial to the Deportation at Drancy was created by sculptor Shlomo Selinger to commemorate the French Jews imprisoned in the camp.

The following month, Olschanezky was arrested and sent to a camp at Drancy, where she awaited being sent to an extermination camp in Nazi Germany.

His father was sent via Drancy to Auschwitz where he died in 1942.

Madame Levy was imprisoned in Camp Drancy on 3 November 1943, and on 20 November of the same year she was deported to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus in January 1944.

In the 17th century, Drancy was divided into two distinct villages: Drancy le Grand and le Petit Drancy.

During the Franco-Prussian war, Le Bourget was the site of an important battle and the castle of Ladoucette in Drancy was destroyed.

Drancy, outside of Paris, was the primary camp for Jews being deported to the Nazi German death camps in Poland and Eastern Europe.

He was known to hunt down and execute resistance fighters during World War II, as well as for his participation in anti-semitic programs, including the deportation of French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.

It was located in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, France.

Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was taken over by SS and officer Alois Brunner.

From July 1942 to August 1944, 12 trains left Bordeaux for Drancy ; approximatively 1, 600 Jews, including 130 children under 13, were deported.

In December 1941, 40 prisoners from Drancy were executed in retaliation for a French attack on German police officers.

) The newspaper showed documents signed by Papon which demonstrated his responsibility in the deportation of 1, 690 Jews of Bordeaux to Drancy from 1942 to 1944 These documents had been provided to the satirical newspaper by one of the survivors of Papon's raid, Michel Slitinsky, in the spring of 1981.

In August 1942, 600 Jews from Nice were rounded up by French police and sent to Drancy, and eventually to death camps.

They carried out the deportation of thousands of French Jews, refugee Jews and other " undesirables " to the Drancy deportation camp en route to Auschwitz and other German extermination camps.

French authorities interned these Jews in Drancy, marking its official opening.

Of the 75, 000 Jews whom French and German authorities deported from France, more than 67, 000 were sent directly from Drancy to Auschwitz.

Jews at Drancy in 1941

In 1976, the Memorial to the Deportation at Drancy was created by sculptor Shlomo Selinger to commemorate the French Jews imprisoned in the camp.

They forced the roundup of Jews, sending those from the Paris area to the Drancy deportation camp.

Young Yolga saved Turkish Jews one by one from the Nazi authorities, by picking them up from Drancy, driving them in his own car and hiding them in safe places.