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5 unusual facts about Drancy


Denis Langlois

Denis Langlois (born 10 December 1968 in Drancy) is a French race walker.

Georges André Kohn

Georges was among a group of 51 deportees deported in the last transport from the Drancy transit camp in France on August 17, 1944 a week prior to the liberation of Paris, along with his parents, grandmother Jeanne Marie (75), sisters Antoinette (22) and Rose Marie (18) and brother Philippe (21).

Herbert Herz

Detained at the border by the Swiss, Emmanuel was turned over to French authorities, who transported him to the intern camp of Drancy.

Michel Jonasz

Michel Jonasz (born 21 January 1947 in Drancy, France) is a French composer-songwriter, singer and actor.

Victor Perez

Perez was denounced to the Occupation authorities and arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and detained in the Drancy internment camp before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz subcamp to serve as a slave laborer for I.G. Farben at the Buna-Werke.


Josef Kramer

Kramer served as commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory, though there were French-run transit camps such as the one at Drancy.

Rose Warfman

Her brother, Dr. Salomon Gluck was deported on the next convoy, convoy 73, leaving Drancy internment camp on 15 May 1944.


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