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Drancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Drancy is a town of France, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris. In 1976, the Memorial to the Deportation at Drancy was created by sculptor Shelomo Selinger to commemorate the French Jews imprisoned in the camp. 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. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drancy   (120 words)

Gallery - The Camp at Drancy, France - Photos Drancy was considered to be the anteroom of death. A view of one of the wings of the camp at Drancy. History of the camp: The camp at Drancy was a transit camp not far outside of Paris. fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/RESOURCE/GALLERY/DRAN.HTM   (724 words)

MyriadMush.Net: Drancy Drancy is unaware of Dot's fury, largely because she's taken with the novel concept of someone being interested in her for reasons which don't involve flirting with fame (or with the famous), and don't appear to involve getting her into bed and her legs spread right away. Drancy does scrutinize the woman in latex, though it's less of a 'summing up of competition' or even a lustful gaze than it is a shrewd, 'Is this someone I should recognize?' sort of glance. Drancy ducks her head again, laughing, and the sound is almost bell-like as her eyes change again. www.myriadmush.net /blogarch/root/000138.html   (6692 words)

drancy.htm Drancy was planned to provide housing for 700 but at its peak in the 1940s as a transit camp it held 7,000. And yet this was not the worst: Drancy became the stopping off point for thousands of Jews resident in France on their way to Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Eastern Europe, the most notorious being Auschwitz. La Cité de la Muette council estate in Drancy some 7 km from the centre of Paris. www.sunderland.ac.uk /~os0tmc/occupied/drancy.htm   (386 words)

Drancy The Drancy camp, named after the northeastern suburb of Paris in which it was located, was established by the Germans in August 1941 as an internment camp for foreign Jews in France; it later became the major transit camp for the deportations of Jews from France. During the summer of 1942, the Germans began systematic deportations of Jews from Drancy to extermination camps in occupied Poland. Fewer than 2,000 of the almost 65,000 Jews deported from the Drancy camp survived the Holocaust. www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005215   (441 words)

Monument of the deportation of French Jews, Drancy, Paris. Drancy is now is a suburb of mixed refugee and immigrant populations, surrounded by apartment housing and stores. Drancy is now s suburb of Paris, midway between the center of the city and Charlkes de Gaulle airport. Monument of the deportation of French Jews, Drancy, Paris. www.chgs.umn.edu /Visual___Artistic_Resources/Public_Holocaust_Memorials/Drancy_and_other_monuments_in_/drancy_and_other_monuments_in_.html   (262 words)

Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Drancy site to be memorial to deported Jews Mr Betsch, who works for the French press agency AFP, first became interested in Drancy while covering the trial of Maurice Papon, the collaborationist Vichy official convicted in 1998 of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting 1,590 Jews from the Bordeaux region to Nazi concentration camps. Drancy site to be memorial to deported Jews "Papon said during his trial that he had no idea what Drancy really was," Mr Betsch said. www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,498264,00.html   (618 words)

Berga. Berga and Beyond. Civilian Prisoners. Transit Camps PBS Drancy was located in a northeastern suburb of Paris. Many Jews were sent on to Drancy or Auschwitz, but there were also a number who escaped, were released, or were able to emigrate. In the Nazis' western occupied territory, camps such as Westerbork in the Netherlands and Drancy in France held thousands of regional Jews before shipping them east, usually to Auschwitz and certain death. www.pbs.org /wnet/berga/beyond/transit.html   (472 words)

Leo - Drancy At Drancy, they were put by the score into bare rooms with buckets to be used as toilets, because many of the children couldn't walk down the long hallways to bathrooms, or were too frightened to go without adults. Drancy was the waiting room for Auschwitz, more than a thousand miles and four days away by lumbering freight train. Drancy 's diet was watery cabbage soup that led inevitably to burning diarrhea. www.dickinson.edu /~klinem/fr236/Papon/leodrancy.html   (1038 words)

Axis History Forum :: View topic - Auschwitz Testimony of George Wellers Witness Wellers: They reached Drancy in the second half of August in four convoys of 1,000 accompanied by 200 adults who were not connected with them and were not their parents, and who had come with them from Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. Yes, it was also the rule that when women arrived at Drancy at the end of their pregnancy, they were kept there for a short time until they gave birth, and immediately afterwards they were deported with the newborn baby. He was present at nearly all the departures from Drancy, and, taking into consideration that at least eight convoys of children left the camp, I am sure that Roethke was present at all eight or at least at six or seven. forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=48082   (9184 words)

CNN - French Catholics apologize for World War II silence on Jews - Oct. 1, 1997 DRANCY, France (CNN) -- France's Roman Catholic clergy have apologized for the church's silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime. More than 1,000 Jews and Christians gathered Tuesday for the emotional ceremony on the grounds of Drancy, the transit camp outside Paris where Jews languished in squalid conditions before being shipped to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland. Standing nearby was Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the Jewish-born archbishop of Paris, whose mother was deported through Drancy and died at Auschwitz. www.cnn.com /WORLD/9710/01/france.catholics   (685 words)

Brake Testing at Bosch - Brüel & Kjær Drancy uses dynamometers from a number of different suppliers and the PULSE software easily integrates with these different systems. The Drancy facility is one of Europe's leading centres for brake design and testing. Delage concludes, "We have plans to install a further climatic dynamometer here at Drancy. www.bksv.com /2789.asp   (870 words)

Paris Deportations World War II Massacres and WWII Disasters She saw him on a television program in 1990, she said, arguing that the transporting of Jewish children to Drancy in 1942 was a humanitarian measure to reunite them with their parents, and it nearly broke her heart. The children were separated from their parents by the French police immediately after their arrival in Drancy. The camp of Drancy was a transit camp located not far from Paris. mackillers.8m.com /deport.html   (3700 words)

Drancy Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 is a startling new film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz. Drancy includes interviews with survivors as well as with bystanders who were witnesses. www.filmakers.com /indivs/Drancy.htm   (92 words)

Jewish Fortune - Central Jewish Resource Drancy’s mayor had led a campaign to obtain national memorial status for the Drancy site, according to the director of the mayor& office, Dominique de Pontfarcy. For years, French Holocaust survivors have been coming to a memorial in the Paris suburb of Drancy to mark the site from which tens of thousands of French Jews were shipped to their deaths at Auschwitz. Until March 2001, the Drancy municipality, like many other local councils in the area, had been run by the Communist Party, which still heads the Seine Saint-Denis regional council and therefore the Drancy site. english.sem40.ru /jewish_fortune/8432   (997 words)

Drancy on Encyclopedia.com Embarquement à Drancy vers les camps de concentration Il y a soixante ans, les 16 et 17 juillet 1942, 13.152 juifs parisie. Monument à la mémoire des juifs internés au camp de Drancy A Drancy, une autre cérémonie s'est parallèlement déroulée, en. Embarquement de juifs dans des wagons de marchandises au camp de Drancy pour être déportés vers les camps de concentration a. www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Drancy.asp   (682 words)

France Drancy-- Drancy was established in August, 1941, in a suburb northeast of Paris in order to receive Jews rounded up that month in Paris. This cover is one of the Camille Caen covers described in the article entitled "Internment Camp Drancy (France)" by Dr. Albert Friedberg in the August, 1989, issue of The Israel Philatelist. Below are thumbnails of a cover from Drancy postmarked March 4, 1943. www.edwardvictor.com /Holocaust/france_main.htm   (1663 words)

The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 333 An unfinished apartment complex in the Paris suburb of Drancy was a transit camp for most Jews shipped from France to Auschwitz. When Drancy opened on August 21, 1941, living conditions were abysmal. As a result, the mortality rate at Drancy was very high. www.holocaustchronicle.org /StaticPages/333.html   (434 words)

Leila Sadat Wexler on Accountability for War Crimes His attempts to ameliorate the conditions of the prisoners in the convoys leaving for Drancy, or to save certain "interesting" Jews (former war heroes, etc.), as well as his obedience to his superiors may mitigate his punishment, but cannot erase his crime. Most of those deported to Drancy were ultimately sent to Auschwitz where they faced certain death in Nazi gas chambers. The three judges of the Court will decide whether Maurice Papon will stand trial for his participation in the arrest and deportation of 1,690 Jews from the camp of Merignac, in the Bordeaux area, to Drancy between 1942 and 1944. news-info.wustl.edu /opeds/opeds96/WexlerJune96.html   (819 words)

Jewish leaders slam circus on grounds of French WWII deportation camp Between August 1941 and August 1944, 67,000 Jews were imprisoned at the Drancy detention center and subsequently sent to their deaths at Nazi concentration camps. The circus, set up on Monday at Drancy, was expected to remain at the site until Sunday. PARIS, Nov 20 (AFP) - Jewish leaders in France expressed outrage Thursday over the installation of a circus on the site of the Drancy detention center outside Paris, through which 67,000 Jews passed en route to Nazi death camps. quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/du/Qfrance-wwii-jews.R1MB_DNK.html   (172 words)

The French Deportation Camps Drancy and Gurs The assembly camp (Sammellager) at Drancy, a north-eastern suburb of When the deportations began, the trains from these camps were routed to Drancy, where Jews held in camps in the occupied zone of France, such as Gurs was only one of a number of camps established by the Vichy Government. www.deathcamps.org /reinhard/drancy.html   (386 words)

Post Comment There was going to be a drancy fess ball at the ping's kalace that very night in honor of the prandsome hince. Well, when Rindercella appeared at the drancy fess ball, the prandsome hince took one look at her, and they danced every dance together after that, and had a wonderful time. After all, she wanted to go to the drancy fess ball like all the other pearls in the pingdom. www.blurty.com /talkpost.bml?journal=quiet1&itemid=708   (534 words)

FAURISSON:Maurice Papon and Yves Jouffa: A Double Standard? (1997) According to this note, Y. Jouffa, chief of the Young Socialists in 1939, was interned at Drancy for over a year (from 20 August 1941 to September 1942). He is Honorary President of the Association of Former Deportees and Internees of Drancy. On 28 January 1997, on French television (TF 1), reporter Paul Amar showed, during his magazine programme "Le Monde de Léa", an interview with M. Papon in which the latter, at one point, recalled that at the Drancy camp an important Jewish personality participated in the "sorting" of Jews bound for Auschwitz. www.vho.org /aaargh/engl/FaurisArch/RF970809.html   (693 words)

If the Walls Could Speak IF THE WALLS COULD SPEAK juxtaposes the testimonies of those interned at Drancy - people who were starved, forced to sleep on filthy straw mats and to use outdoor toilets in groups of 20 - with the stories of current residents. Between 1941 and 1944, 67,000 Jews -- including director Daniela Zanzotto's grandfather -- were deported from Drancy to death camps. By connecting the Drancy survivors and victims with contemporary Parisians and immigrants, [the film] addressed the often neglected tie of the Holocaust to those living outside the Jewish community."- Al Jadid, A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts www.frif.com /new2003/walls.html   (457 words)

Shofar FTP Archives: camps/auschwitz/drancy From that point, the Jews of France were at the mercy of the Nazis, and the result was predictable: "Detention camps for French Jews were quickly set up, the largest in Drancy, near Paris. Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history Subject: Holocaust Almanac: "They all died at Auschwitz..." Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Auschwitz,Barbie,Drancy,Gur,France Archive/File: camps/auschwitz drancy camps/drancy france.001 camps/gur france.001 people/b/barbie.klaus france.001 Last-Modified: 1993/10/28 After Hitler's rise to power, many German Jews left Germany for the safety of France, and obtained citizenship there. From there 98,000 people were deported to Auschwitz, of whom only 3,000 lived to be liberated at the end of the war. www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.py?camps/auschwitz/drancy   (279 words)

Rindercella -- Goonerisms Spalore! Poor Prinderella couldn't attend the drancy fess ball, for all she had was a rirty drag. One day the Ping issued a kroclamation that all gelligable goung yirls were to attend the drancy fess ball. So, all night long, Prinderella danced with the Cince, but at the moke of stridnight, she raced down the stralace peps and on the strottom pep, she slopped her dripper! www.matthewgoldman.com /spoon/rindercella_7.html   (216 words)

The Zawierucha Family from Wyszogrod & Gombin Poland 1890, deportation from Drancy 12.8.1942 and murdered in Auschwitz. 1891, deportation from Drancy 25.7.1942 and murdered in Auschwitz. in Gombin 22.5.1924, deportation from Drancy August 1942 and murdered in Auschwitz. www.zchor.org /family/zawierucha.htm   (286 words)

WL archive:1171.html This copy letter re conditions in Drancy during the Nazi era was enclosed with an account of life in Drancy called There by the Grace of God by the depositor, A.R. Thomas. The purpose of the letter is to offer support to Klarsfeld in his prosecution of Paul Touvier, a former member of the regime at Drancy. The letter, which is addressed to Serge Klarsfeld, the prominent Nazi hunter, is signed by five former British merchant navy seamen who were prisoners at Drancy. www.wienerlibrary.co.uk /archive/archive1171.html   (122 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Drancy Drancy, suburb, 10 km (6 mi) north-east of Paris, considered part of greater Paris, in the department of Seine-St-Denis. Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework. uk.encarta.msn.com /Drancy.html   (44 words)

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