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.
![This multistory complex served as the Drancy transit camp. [LCID: 19112b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/842f7b7e-8b4d-41b3-880c-37cbd9f05adc.jpg "This multistory complex served as the Drancy transit camp. [LCID: 19112b]")
This multistory complex served as the Drancy transit camp. The overwhelming majority of Jews deported from France were held here prior to their deportation. Drancy, France, 1941–44.
Item View![Jewish prisoners in the Drancy camp. France, between 1941 and 1944. [LCID: 19112a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b5e47153-b136-4076-8f9f-862e1a73cca3.jpg "Jewish prisoners in the Drancy camp. France, between 1941 and 1944. [LCID: 19112a]")
Jewish prisoners in the Drancy transit camp. France, between 1941 and 1944.
Item View![Jewish prisoners arrive at the Drancy transit camp. [LCID: 19111]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ac5cbe75-b47d-4f08-83b5-06220e1b1491.jpg "Jewish prisoners arrive at the Drancy transit camp. [LCID: 19111]")
Jewish prisoners arrive at the Drancy transit camp. France, 1942.
Item View![The first transport of Jews arriving at the Drancy transit camp by bus [LCID: 55637]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c79d9747-7261-4330-b3da-9f8afa0c08c8.jpg "The first transport of Jews arriving at the Drancy transit camp by bus [LCID: 55637]")
Jews arrive at the Drancy transit camp by bus. France, 1942–44.
Item View![Buses waiting at the entrance to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where almost 13,000 Jews were assembled before being transported to Drancy ... [LCID: 81033]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/196fd942-e329-4883-aa1f-2b5f41281822.jpg "Buses waiting at the entrance to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where almost 13,000 Jews were assembled before being transported to Drancy ... [LCID: 81033]")
Buses waiting at the entrance to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where almost 13,000 Jews were assembled before being transported to Drancy and other French transit camps. Paris, France, July 16 and 17, 1942.
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