Drancy transit camp (France)

A transit camp established by the Nazis in August 1941 in the Drancy suburb of Paris, France. Drancy functioned as a holding facility for Jews designated for deportation. From the summer of 1942 until the camp was liberated in August 1944, over 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy and murdered in killing centers in occupied Poland. The majority of them were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.