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FRANCE: City at heart of Jewish deportations confronts past – World News From Europe

From 1942 to 1944, more than 67,000 French and foreign Jews were held in a transit camp set up on a housing estate in the middle of Drancy, a working-class suburb north-east of Paris, before being deported to death camps in Germany and Poland. The camp’s watchtowers and barbed wire fences were removed, but the [...]

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