Convoy 77 of July 31, 1944

Convoy 77 of July 31, 1944 was the last large convoy of Jews held at the Drancy internment camp, who were transported from Bobigny station to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. This convoy, besides the large number of deportees including very young children, is stamped with the features of the emergency organization triggered by the imminent debacle of the German army: the geographical origins of the deportees were quite diverse (even though over half were born in France), and certain individuals (soldiers’ wives, those married to Aryans, etc.), who had sometimes been interned in Drancy's satellite camps known as "Parisian camps", enjoyed a status that had protected them up to then from being "transported".

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