Research Catalog

Title

A l'intérieur du camp de Drancy / Annette Wieviorka, Michel Laffitte.

Author

Wieviorka, Annette

Publication

[Paris] : Perrin, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Laffitte, Michel

Description

382 p.: ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

A history of the camp of Drancy, based on eyewitness testimonies, especially by Paul Zuckermann, Nissim-Noël Calef, and Georges Kohn, as well as material from newly opened archives. Between 1941-44, 67,000 of the 75,000 Jews deported from France, most of them foreigners, passed through Drancy. 80,000 additional Jews spent shorter or longer periods interned there. Describes the organization of the camp and daily life. The first Jews were rounded up and sent to Drancy in August 1941 as part of a series of repressive Nazi measures to prevent communist actions. Between November 1941-July 1942, Drancy only housed men and served as a pool for hostages that were shot or deported by the Germans in retaliation for attacks perpetrated by the resistance. The Vél d'Hiv roundup initiated a new phase, turning Drancy, between July 1942-July 1943 into a transit camp, including women and children. Traces the cycles of deportation and their interruptions. During the last year of its existence, Drancy was reorganized as a concentration camp by Alois Brunner. Internal control, which was previously handled by the Vichy government, was taken over by the SS. In July 1943, when the camp at Beaune-la-Rolande was closed, many of its "non-deportable" prisoners were transferred to Drancy or its satellite camps in Paris. The Allied invasion of Normandy did not slow the pace at which Jews were arrested. In summer 1944 thousands of Jews were sent from Toulouse, Montpellier, and Grenoble to Drancy; most of them were deported with the last convoy in August.

Subjects

• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, French
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > France > Drancy
• Drancy (Internment camp)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > France

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-369) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Camp de représailles, août 1941-juin 1942 -- Camp de transit, juillet 1942-juillet 1943 -- Camp de concentration, juillet 1943-août 1944 -- Drancy après Drancy, août 1944-.

ISBN

9782262034238

OCLC

• 790245474
• SCSB-12510287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library