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Drancy concentration camp
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Background
Drancy internment camp (French: Camp d'internement de Drancy) was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II. Originally conceived and built as a modernist urban community under the name La Cité de la Muette (lit.â'The City of the Mute'), it was located in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, France. Between 22 June 1942 and 31 July 1944, during its use as an internment camp, 67,400 French, Polish, and German Jews were deported from the camp in 64 rail operations, which included 6,000 children. Only 1,542 prisoners remained alive at the camp when the German authorities in Drancy fled as Allied forces advanced and the Swedish Consul-General Raoul Nordling took control of the camp on 17 August 1944, before handing it over to the French Red Cross to care for the survivors. Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was taken over by the SS, which placed officer Alois Brunner in charge of the camp. In 2001, Brunner's case was brought before a French court by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, which sentenced Brunner in absentia to a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
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Drancy
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Death-row facility
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Notable inmates
- Albert Vogel1883
- Meir Zauberman1901–1941
- Edwin Heimann1899–1944
- Nachim Sperling1898–1941
- Simon Badinter1895–1943 · furrier
- Hélène Metzger1889–1944 · philosopher
Hélène Metzger (26 August 1889 â 7 March 1944) was a French philosopher of science and historian of science.
- Gilbert Makowski1940–1944
- Hilde Schmiedl1884
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Data completeness
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q247958)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Drancy concentration camp. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/drancy-concentration-camp
"Drancy concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/drancy-concentration-camp.
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