Drancy, France Internment Camp Food Package Card

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Object ID

2015.2.104

Object Name

Card, Instruction

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Description

Tan paper with printed black text and a purple circular hand stamp in upper lefthand corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Unused food package card with violet triple ring cachet "CAMP D'INTERNMENT DE DRANCY." Drancy was a high-rise apartment complex in the northeast suburb of Paris in the 1930s before the Nazis confiscated it and utilized it as an internment camp to hold Jews and other “undesirables” who were later deported to the extermination camps. 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, of whom 63,000 were murdered including 6,000 children. The Vichy government under Petain and Laval cooperated with Nazi Germany, hunting down foreign and French Jews and turning them over to the Gestapo for transport to the Third Reich's extermination camps. Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was taken over by Alois Brunner. With his arrival came the need to increase deportations to Auschwitz. Drancy at its peak held more than 7,000 prisoners. The brutality of the French guards in Drancy and the harsh conditions imposed on the inmates is well known. For example, upon their arrival, small children were immediately separated from their parents for deportation to the death camps. On 6 April 1944, SS First Lieutenant Klaus Barbie raided a children's home in Izieu, France, where Jewish children had been hidden. Barbie arrested everyone present, all 44 children and 7 adult staff members. The next day, the Gestapo transported the arrestees to Drancy. From there, all the children and staff were deported to Auschwitz. None of them survived.

Dimensions

4 x 6 1/4"

Keywords

Stamp, Drancy, France, Food

Subcollection

Transit

Recommended Citation

"Drancy, France Internment Camp Food Package Card" (2015). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.104.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/193