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From July 1943 to the summer of 1944, the Bobigny train station was the departure point for the deportation of French Jews. During this period, 21 convoys deported 22,500 men, women and children - a third of all Jewish deportees from France - mainly to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The only example of a railway station used for deportation that remains close to its 1940s configuration, the site will become a memorial when it is inaugurated on July 18, 2023.

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Gare de Bobigny

1943-1944, deportation site for French Jews

 
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The Memorial at the former Bobigny deportation station

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Historical sites in Seine-Saint-Denis

Drancy internment camp

The Cité de la Muette in Drancy was requisitioned by the Nazis in 1941 as the main internment and transit camp for French Jews.

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Gare du Bourget-Drancy

Main train station for the deportation of Jews from France to Auschwitz-Birkenau between March 1942 and June 1943. A total of 40,450 were deported from this station.

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Gare de Bobigny

From July 1943 until the summer of 1944, the main departure point for the deportation of Jews from France. A total of 22,500 were deported from this train station.

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Camp du fort de Romainville

Requisitioned by the German occupying forces in 1940, it was transformed into an internment and transit camp for resistance fighters and victims of repression.

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Quai aux bestiaux

In 1944, it was the departure point for 4 deportation convoys linked to the policy of repression, including the last convoy to leave France on August 15, 1944. In all, 3,250 people were deported from this quay.

 

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Le Bourget airport

A strategic point throughout World War II, it was bombed by both sides. It was used to repatriate prisoners and deportees in the spring of 1945.

 

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Camp de la caserne des Suisses

Used during the war as a camp for foreign nationals “from the enemy powers of the Reich”. More than 2,000 men were interned here during the German occupation.

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Further afield

Museums and memorial sites to visit beyond Seine-Saint-Denis to better understand the history of the Resistance and the Holocaust in France.

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