Drancy internment camp
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Drancy internment camp was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II. Originally c
Jean Wahl
…at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, interrupted by World War II. He was in the United States from 1942 to 1945, having been interned as a Jew at the Drancy internment camp (north-east of Paris) and then escaped. He began his career as a follower of Henri Bergson and the American pluralist philosophers William James and…
The accommodation block at Drancy with French policeman on guard
Jews at Drancy in 1941
![Weill, Théodore Valensi [fr], Azoulay, Albert Ulmo, Cremieux, Eduard Bloch and Pierre Massé held at Drancy in 1941](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S69244%2C_Internierungslager_Drancy_in_Frankreich.jpg/500px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S69244%2C_Internierungslager_Drancy_in_Frankreich.jpg)
Weill, Théodore Valensi [fr], Azoulay, Albert Ulmo, Cremieux, Eduard Bloch and Pierre Massé held at Drancy in 1941
A railway wagon used to carry internees to Auschwitz and now displayed at Drancy