{"id":16724,"date":"2024-06-17T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/convoys-of-deportees\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:11:27","slug":"convoys-of-deportees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/convoys-of-deportees\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoys of deportees"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From 1942 to 1944, some 75 train convoys deported 75,000 Jews\u2014including 11,400 children\u2014from France to extermination camps. Most of these trains were numbered by the authorities at the time. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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   Most of these 75 train convoys carrying deportees departed from the Drancy transit camp in the Paris region (55 convoys), but also from camps in the Loiret department (Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande), the Compi\u00e8gne-Royallieu camp, Angers, and Lyon.<\/p>


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  • Convoys Nos. 41, 43, 54, and 56 do not exist, and convoy No. 64 departed before convoy No. 63 due to administrative errors. The last two convoys (Nos. 78 and 79) were not assigned numbers. <\/li>\n
  • Convoys Nos. 50\u201351 were sent to the Sobibor and Majdanek extermination camps, convoys No. 52 through 53 to Sobibor, convoy No. 73 to Kaunas (Lithuania) and Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), and convoy No. 79 to Buchenwald.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    The conditions for the deportees on these trains are <\/strong>appalling. Children, the elderly, women, and men are crammed together, without food or water, in cattle cars. Many of the deportees die during the journey. <\/p>


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       Virtually all of the Jews from France who were deported passed through Drancy on the orders of the Nazis and their French collaborators. In total, approximately 63,000 Jews, divided into some 60 convoys, left the Bourget-Drancy station and then the Bobigny station, bound primarily for Auschwitz-Birkenau. <\/p>\n

    The deportees from Nord and Pas-de-Calais\u2014about 1,000 people, including 202 children\u2014were sent to the camps via Belgium.<\/p>


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       Even though the Nazis knew their defeat was imminent, they did not ease up on their pressure.<\/p>\n

    The last convoy left Drancy on August 17, 1944. The deportees were marched on foot to the Bobigny train station by the Nazi Alo\u00efs Brunner, the camp\u2019s last commander, who fled France\u2026 along with the convoy.  <\/p>

    The Drancy transit camp, liberated on August 20, 1944, by the Resistance, remains a symbol of anti-Semitic persecution in France.<\/span><\/p>\n


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       Nearly 3 million of the 6 million victims of the Shoah were murdered in mass killings in Eastern Europe or died in the ghettos created by the Nazis.<\/p>


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    The convoys bound for the gas chambers bear witness to the acceleration of the extermination through the industrialization of the process of destruction.<\/p>\n

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    A cattle car, preserved in its original condition and on display at the Cit\u00e9 de la Muette in Drancy (the site of the camp), symbolizes all the convoys of deportees.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    References:<\/strong><\/p>

    \u2014 Yad Vashem website (www.yadvashem.org)<\/p>

    \u2014 Serge Klarsfeld, Memorial to the Deportation of French Jews, Association of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France (FFDJF)<\/p>

    \u2014 Fontaine Thomas, 2009, *The Impossible Forgetting: Deportation to the Nazi Camps*. Tallandier.<\/em><\/p>

    \u2014 Jean-Luc Pinol, 2019, *Convois: The Deportation of Jews from France*<\/em>, Paris, \u00c9ditions du D\u00e9tour.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From 1942 to 1944, some 75 train convoys deported 75,000 Jews\u2014including 11,400 children\u2014from France to extermination camps. Most of these trains were numbered by the authorities at the time.    Most of these 75 train convoys carrying deportees departed from the Drancy transit camp in the Paris region (55 convoys), but also from camps in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"salle":[170],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-16724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","salle-8-1-the-final-solution-according-to-the-nazis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16725,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions\/16725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=16724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}