Drancy

/ drɑ̃si /

noun

1. a residential suburb of NE Paris. Pop: 62 263 (1999)

Example Sentences

Many French Jews were also interned at Drancy, north of Paris, and from there deported to a concentration camp.

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Mr. Kaminsky was rounded up with the rest of his family in 1943 and taken to Drancy, a transit camp outside Paris where thousands of Jews were detained en route to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps.

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In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.

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He played for Drancy, an amateur side in Paris’ northeast suburbs before signing with Strasbourg’s youth academy in 2017.

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Pithiviers was the second largest transit camp and deportation point in France for Jews, after Drancy.

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