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The first
transport from Drancy, with 1,000 Jews aboard, set out for
Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 22. Drancy, a collection and detention
camp for French Jews in the large northeastern suburb of Paris of
this name, became a junction from which Jews were deported from
France to labor and extermination camps. Guarded by members of the
French Gendarmerie armed with machine guns, the camp held as many as
4,500 Jews at a time. The first deportation from Drancy was the
third that left France as part of the "Final Solution,"
but was by no means the last. |
