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The opening of the Drancy camp — The internment of Jews at the Cité de la Muette, 1941
A roundup filled the Cité de la Muette, an unfinished housing block guarded by French gendarmes: Drancy became Auschwitz’s antechamber — most of the Jews deported from France passed through it, until the camp’s liberation in August 1944. (Editorial synthesis)
The opening of the Drancy camp took place in Drancy. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The opening of the Drancy camp ended in the camp turned into a place for grouping the Jews of France before their deportation to the extermination camps — around sixty-three thousand of the seventy-six thousand Jews deported from France passed through it. (source: Ministère des Armées)
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