>300 Orphans are Kidnapped & Deported just Weeks before the Liberation of Paris

Convoy 77 was the last large Nazi train to deport Jews from France. It carried over 1,300 people; 300 were children, including babies taken from orphanages.

Notorious Austrian-born SS officer & top assistant to Eichmann, Alois Brunner, had ordered the raids to capture as many Jews as possible before the German army completely lost control.

Most, including all the young children, are murdered in gas chambers upon arrival. 

**"The Drancy camp,** named after the northeastern suburb of Paris in which it was located, was established by the Germans in August 1941 as an internment camp for foreign Jews in France. It later became the major transit camp View This Term in the Glossary for the deportations of Jews from France.

Until July 1, 1943, French police staffed the camp under the overall control of the German Security Police. In July 1943 the Germans took direct control of the Drancy camp and SS officer Alois Brunner became camp commandant.

The camp was a multistory U-shaped building that had served as a police barracks before the war. Barbed wire surrounded the building and its courtyard. The capacity of the camp was 5,000 prisoners. Five subcamps, used primarily as warehouses for personal property confiscated from Jews, were located throughout Paris at

* the Austerlitz train station
* the Hotel Cahen d'Anvers
* the Levitan furniture warehouse
* the wharf in Bercy
* the Rue de Faubourg

Approximately 70,000 prisoners passed through Drancy between August 1941 and August 1944. Except for a small number of prisoners (mostly members of the French resistance), the overwhelming majority were Jews.

A few thousand prisoners managed to obtain release during the first year of the camp's existence." VERY MUCH MORE—> [https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/drancy](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/drancy)

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1: “December 3, 1942, Jews in the Drancy detention camp in France Bread distribution by the Nazis at the Drancy detention camp near Paris, France.

Some 70,000 Jews were incarcerated in this camp over the three years of its operation, from summer 1941 to summer 1944.

Almost all of them were deported to the extermination camps in eastern Europe.” DETAILS--> [Jews in the Drancy detention camp in France, 3 December 1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/december/1942.html)

July 31, 1944 Holocaust: The Last Train from France to Auschwitz