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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.