In 1942, the mass deportation of 65,000 people began at a camp near Paris
The Drancy internment camp became the grim gateway to the Holocaust in France, as thousands were forcibly deported to extermination camps under the cooperation of the Vichy government and Nazi occupiers.
In 1942, a harrowing chapter of the Holocaust began at the Drancy internment camp near Paris. What started as a housing project became a transit point where approximately 65,000 Jews were processed for deportation to German extermination camps. This operation was a chilling collaboration between Nazi forces and the French Vichy government, marking a dark era of state-sponsored persecution.
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