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Salle 8 - Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.
Jan–Jul 42

A postcard written by an inmate of the Drancy camp on June 20, 1942, and mailed to his wife on the 22nd.

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Postcard, June 1942 © Ghertzman-Mangeney Collection (DR)

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8.1 The "Final Solution" According to the Nazis

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A handwritten poem in Yiddish written in Beaune-la-Rolande on May 14, 1942.

Back of the postcard: The prisoner announces that he will be deported that same evening at 7 p.m. He will not return.

Census of the Jewish population in Europe (in 1942) according to the “Wannsee Protocol.”

Confidential memo dated March 20, 1942, from F. Rademacher to A. Eichmann regarding the deportation of 6,000 French Jews to Auschwitz, in accordance with the decisions of the Wannsee Conference.

Convoys of deportees

Deported by train to a concentration camp.