Cité de la Muette, Drancy

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Cité de la Muette in Drancy is a large modernist housing complex near Paris that became infamous as a major internment camp for Jews during World War II.

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instanceOf World War II internment camp
former internment camp
housing complex
modernist housing estate
architecturalStyle modernist architecture
associatedEvent Holocaust in France
deportation of French Jews
associatedWith Auschwitz concentration camp
linked to: AuschwitzBirkenau
category Holocaust locations in France
Modernist architecture in France
World War II sites in France
commemorates victims of the Holocaust in France
country France
designedAs large-scale workers' housing estate
functionDuringWorldWarII collection and transit point for deportations to extermination camps
hasCurrentStatus inhabited housing estate
hasFunctionToday residential housing
hasHeritageDesignation site of memory of the Holocaust
hasHistoricalSignificance central site of anti-Jewish persecution in occupied France
hasMemorial Drancy internment camp memorial
hasMunicipality Drancy
linked to: Commune of Drancy
hasNameInFrench Cité de la Muette
hasTypeOfCamp internment camp for Jews
transit camp
linkedTo French collaboration during World War II
Nazi deportation system in Western Europe
locatedIn Drancy
linked to: Commune of Drancy
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Seine-Saint-Denis
locatedInRegion Île-de-France
locatedInUrbanArea northeastern suburbs of Paris
locatedNear Paris
notableFor being the principal internment and transit camp for Jews in France
its modernist architectural design
originalPurpose social housing project
partOf urban development of Drancy
roleDuringTheHolocaust main transit camp for Jews in France
roleDuringWorldWarII major transit camp for Jews deported from France
subjectOf Holocaust historiography
memorialization and remembrance activities
timePeriodOfInternmentCampUse 1941–1944
World War II
use internment camp
residential housing
usedBy French authorities under Vichy regime
Nazi Germany
usedFor internment of Jews during World War II

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Eugène Beaudouin notableWork Cité de la Muette, Drancy