Drancy
Drancy , city (1990 pop. 60,928), Seine-Saint Denis dept., N central France. An industrial suburb NE of Paris, Drancy produces automobile brakes, aircraft, and hardware. There are also breweries and printing plants. During World War II, Drancy was the site of a Nazi concentration camp.
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Given Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga.
Magazine article from: Infantry Magazine; 11/1/2006; ; 418 words
; ...Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga. Flint Whitlock. Cambridge...Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga, falls in this genre...experienced all the miseries of the Nazi concentration camp system. Whitlock cites primary...
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"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination". (Advertorial).
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 10/1/2002; 363 words
; ...images conjured up in our minds by Nazi concentration and extermination camps are generally...exhibition The camps, photographs of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps (19331999...Cheroux. THE CAMPS--Photographs of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps(1933-1999...
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Remember, not to forget: reflections.(First Person)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 5/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...participated in the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp. I thought of him with profound...was beaten blind by two guards in a Nazi concentration camp called Budzyn about 50 years...many people died every day in the Nazi concentration camps. How did you manage to survive...
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Printing Industries of America reports on printing industry structure.(ink Market)
Magazine article from: Ink World; 12/1/2003; 228 words
; ...of America (PIA), the population of printing plants in the U.S. has been undergoing a...distribution of plants. The total U.S. printing plants peaked in 1993 at 54,462. Since that...place in the size distribution of printing plants. The decline in plants has occurred...
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Tens of thousands died in Buchenwald, one of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps, and it is right for President Obama, or indeed anyone, to go there in commemoration.(The Week)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/22/2009; 163 words
; Tens of thousands died in Buchenwald, one of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps, and it is right for President Obama, or indeed anyone, to go there in commemoration. But it is not all right for anyone...
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Given Up for Dead: American GI's in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Military Review; 5/1/2006; ; 270 words
; GIVEN UP FOR DEAD: American GI's in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga, Flint Whitlock, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 2005, 283 pages, $26.00. Flint Whitlock presents a wrenching account...
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Commanders of Auschwitz; the SS officers who ran the largest Nazi concentration camp, 1940-1945.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 161 words
; 0764321757 Commanders of Auschwitz; the SS officers who ran the largest Nazi concentration camp, 1940-1945. Dixon, Jeremy. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2005 232 pages $59.95 Hardcover A Schiffer history book D805 Long interested...
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A complex of murder.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 3/19/2008; 77 words
; Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp complexes. There were also about 40 satellite camps. The camp commandant, Rudolf Hoess testified at the...
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BRAZIL: IBF EXPORTS FILM TO ARAB PRINTING PLANTS.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 3/14/2006; 229 words
; ...aluminium plates for offset printing, photographic film and chemical products for developing. IBF offers a line of products for printing plants, like processors, film and special paper, and another line for the medical area, including film for X-ray and mammographies...
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French President Jacques Chirac warned about anti-Semitism in France as he paid homage to a new wall bearing the names of some 76,000 Jews deported from France to Nazi concentration camps.(Briefly noted)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 2/22/2005; 155 words
; ...anti-Semitism in France as he paid homage to a new wall bearing the names of some 76,000 Jews deported from France to Nazi concentration camps. I want to solemnly repeat that anti-Semitism has no place in France, said Chirac, as he inaugurated a newly renovated...
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Beaudouin, Eugène-Elie
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...ne-Elie (1898–1983). Paris-born French architect who specialized in low-cost housing, notably at Cité de la Muette at Drancy (from 1934), in which industrialized components were used. Among his other works the Maison du Peuple, Clichy (1937–9...
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Lods, Marcel-Gabriel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...x2013;Beaudouin partnership was responsible for building early prefabricated housing schemes at the Cité de la Muette, Drancy, Paris (1934—unfortunately remembered mostly as the transit-centre for French Jews on their way ‘to the East...
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Jacob, Max
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...ways overcame his new piety. In 1943, because he was Jewish, he was arrested by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp at Drancy. Picasso did nothing to save his old friend (their relationship had cooled in the 1930s). Instead, Cocteau pulled strings to...
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Alois Brunner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...centuries. In his next assignment as deportation expert in France (June 1943-August 1944), Brunner took over the transit camp of Drancy, northeast of Paris. He ruled by torture, reprisal, and deception (for example, encouraging prisoners to take personal belongings...
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