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Drancy

/ ɑ̃ /

noun

  1. a residential suburb of NE Paris. Pop: 62 263 (1999)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Mr. Kaminsky was rounded up with the rest of his family in 1943 and taken to Drancy, a transit camp outside Paris where thousands of Jews were detained en route to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps.

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In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.

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He played for Drancy, an amateur side in Paris’ northeast suburbs before signing with Strasbourg’s youth academy in 2017.

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Pithiviers was the second largest transit camp and deportation point in France for Jews, after Drancy.

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She took part in a commemoration ceremony this week at the Shoah Memorial in the Paris suburb of Drancy, and is part of an association based at the site that organizes educational trips to Auschwitz.

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