Drancy, France, Mémorial de la Shoah dans les banlieues, Camp Drancy, lieu de détention, où dans la seconde Guerre mondiale, les déportations nazies de Juifs et d'autres étrangers, 1941, vers les camps de la mort allemands, ont eu lieu, train de voiture Memorial Box, histoire juifs france, SNCF, juifs holocaustes de la seconde guerre mondiale, trains de déportation
3872 x 2592 px | 32,8 x 21,9 cm | 12,9 x 8,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1 juillet 2015
Lieu:
Drancy, France, (93) Seine-Saint-Denis
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The Drancy internment camp became identified by the northeastern suburb of Paris in which it was located. On 20 August 1941, French police conducted raids throughout the 11th District of Paris and arrested more than 4, 000 Jews, mainly foreign. "After the 1940 defeat by Germany and the 10 July 1940 vote of full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain, the Republic was abolished and Vichy France was proclaimed. The Vichy government cooperated with Nazi Germany, hunting down foreign and French Jews and turning them over to the Gestapo for transport to the Third Reich's extermination camps. The Drancy internment camp became identified by the northeastern suburb of Paris in which it was located. It was originally conceived by the noted architects Marcel Lods and Eugène Beaudouinas as a striking, modernist urban community. The design was especially noteworthy for its integration of high-rise residential apartment towers, among the first of their kind in France. Poetically named La Cité de la Muette ("The Silent City") at its creation for its perceived peaceful ideals, the name became twisted with bitter ironic meaning. The entire complex was confiscated by Nazi authorities not long after the German occupation of France in 1940. It was used first as police barracks, then converted into the primary detention center in the Paris region for holding Jews and other people labeled as "undesirable" before deportation. On 20 August 1941, French police conducted raids throughout the 11th District of Paris and arrested more than 4, 000 Jews, mainly foreign or stateless Jews. French authorities interned these Jews in Drancy, marking its official opening. French police enclosed the barracks and courtyard with barbed-wire fencing and provided guards for the camp. Drancy fell under the command of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs in France and German SS Captain Theodor Dannecker. Five subcamps of Drancy were located throughout Paris (three of which were the Austerlitz, Lévitan and Bassa
