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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

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. Author not available, DRANCY. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Beaudouin, Eugène-Elie
...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... Read more

Lods, Marcel-Gabriel
...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... Read more

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	A housing estate on the way to Auschwitz Suburban Paris was home to a vast wartime concentration camp. Suzanne B ardgett traces its hidden history Would we have acted any differently? In which suburb would our Drancy have been - Peckham? Deptford? ; ...futuristic, half-finished building. He had arrived at Drancy. You pass Drancy on the railway line from Paris airport, seven kilometres...weight dropped to 6st 4lb in the few months he spent at Drancy. Ironically it was the Nazi authorities who, alarmed... Read more
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	Facing Up to Drancy ; Jonathan Mahler Forward 07-21-1995 Facing Up to Drancy. President Chirac's acknowledgment of France's crimes against...official acknowledgment of the crimes the French committed at Drancy and other locations against the Jews and against humanity... Read more
	Sortir de la mémoire-ténèbres! ; propos de Drancy Avenir (Arnaud des Pallires, 1996) L'crivain substitue...pourrait parler de prsomption ; mais elle est invitable. l Drancy Avenir : combat de lumires et de tnbres : Drancy Avenir -le titre d'emble tord le cou la mmoire, car il... Read more
	As France marks liberation, that of Nazi transit camp is ignored ; ...to see the liberation of the notorious Drancy detention camp. Exactly 60 years ago Wednesday...starving Jewish inmates. The Germans had fled Drancy a day before, just hours after burning...Nazi concentration camp. From the day Drancy opened on August 20, 1941 until its liberation... Read more
	Diaspora in brief ; ...World Page: 09 Wednesday, May 30, 2001 -- Drancy camp designated national monument PARIS (AP) - A building at Drancy - the transit camp where Jews were held...ministry said Monday - 60 years after Drancy opened as a transit camp under French... Read more
	The moral fall of France ; ...70,000 Jews who had passed through the Drancy detention camp near Paris on their way...with the Germans for the three years that Drancy was in operation. Her argument is detailed...in the 11th arrondissement. On that day Drancy - an unfinished housing estate 16 kilometers... Read more
	Detention Camp Archive Donated By Red Cross to Holocaust Museum ; The archives of Drancy, a World War II detention camp principally for French Jews outside Paris...transferred 25,000 documents to the museum. Of special interest are the Drancy records -- 27,000 card files on inmates who were assigned to the camp... Read more
	French appeals court reverses judgment for damages awarded against French railway system for transporting family toward death camps.(Brief article) ; ...railway cattle cars to a Nazi transit camp at Drancy near Paris in May 1944. Drancy was a transfer point for Jews deported to Nazi...cattle cars from southwest France to a camp at Drancy and remained there for several months until allied... Read more
	A housing estate on the way to Auschwitz ; ...futuristic, half-finished building. He had arrived at Drancy. You pass Drancy on the railway line from Paris airport, seven kilometres...weight dropped to 6st 4lb in the few months he spent at Drancy. Ironically it was the Nazi authorities who, alarmed... Read more

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