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The Germans established the Drancy camp in France in August 1941. Drancy later became the major transit camp for the deportations of Jews from France. Fewer than 2,000 of the almost 65,000 Jews deported from the Drancy camp survived the Holocaust.

Drancy transit camp, 1943

Drancy transit camp, 1943 [LCID: dra22040]

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Major Nazi Camps in German-Controlled Europe, 1943–1944

Major Nazi camps in Europe, January 1944 [LCID: eur72160]

This map shows some of the Nazi camps that existed in German-occupied Europe in 1943–1944. These include killing centers, concentration camps, labor camps, and transit camps.

Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established tens of thousands of camps. The regime imprisoned millions of people in these camps. The Nazis used these sites for many purposes, including the imprisonment of real and perceived enemies and the mass murder of Jewish people. Nazi camps were sites of cruelty, torture, deprivation, unchecked disease, grueling forced labor, and extreme violence.

 

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Camps in France, 1942

Camps in France, 1942 [LCID: fra72020]

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Central Paris, 1943

Central Paris, 1943 [LCID: par39040]

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Major deportations from France, 1942-1944

Major deportations from France, 1942-1944 [LCID: fra78110]

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The first transport of Jews arriving at the Drancy transit camp by bus [LCID: 55637]
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