Holocaust Museum Photographs

The deportation of foreign born Jewish men in occupied Paris was carried out in accordance with the decree of October 4, 1940 which called for their arrest and concentration into camps. Summons were sent on May 14, 1941 to Czech, Austrian, and Polish Jews, who were instructed by the French prefecture of police to come with one relative to specific locations in the capital in order to have their papers examined. On that date approximately 5000 foreign born Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 reported to the various assembly points. Once they arrived, they were forbidden to leave. The friends and relatives who accompanied them were instructed to return home to collect a few provisions for them. The detainees were then put on buses and driven to the gare d'Austerlitz train station, where they were immediately boarded onto four special trains bound for the internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers located in the Loiret near Orleans.

On the outside of the train are written the words 'Compiegne Buchenwald.' Compiegne, also known as Royallieu, was the central point of collection for deportees until Drancy came under German command in 1942. Women and children from the Channel Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, were incarcerated here until April 1944, with up to 6000 political prisoners and American civilians.

The deportation of foreign born Jewish men in occupied Paris was carried out in accordance with the decree of October 4, 1940 which called for their arrest and concentration into camps. Summons were sent on May 14, 1941 to Czech, Austrian, and Polish Jews, who were instructed by the French prefecture of police to come with one relative to specific locations in the capital in order to have their papers examined. On that date approximately 5000 foreign born Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 reported to the various assembly points. Once they arrived, they were forbidden to leave. The friends and relatives who accompanied them were instructed to return home to collect a few provisions for them. The detainees were then put on buses and driven to the gare d'Austerlitz train station, where they were immediately boarded onto four special trains bound for the internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers located in the Loiret near Orleans.

The deportation of foreign born Jewish men in occupied Paris was carried out in accordance with the decree of October 4, 1940 which called for their arrest and concentration into camps. Summons were sent on May 14, 1941 to Czech, Austrian, and Polish Jews, who were instructed by the French prefecture of police to come with one relative to specific locations in the capital in order to have their papers examined. On that date approximately 5000 foreign born Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 reported to the various assembly points. Once they arrived, they were forbidden to leave. The friends and relatives who accompanied them were instructed to return home to collect a few provisions for them. The detainees were then put on buses and driven to the gare d'Austerlitz train station, where they were immediately boarded onto four special trains bound for the internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers located in the Loiret near Orleans.

The deportation of foreign born Jewish men in occupied Paris was carried out in accordance with the decree of October 4, 1940 which called for their arrest and concentration into camps. Summons were sent on May 14, 1941 to Czech, Austrian, and Polish Jews, who were instructed by the French prefecture of police to come with one relative to specific locations in the capital in order to have their papers examined. On that date approximately 5000 foreign born Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 reported to the various assembly points. Once they arrived, they were forbidden to leave. The friends and relatives who accompanied them were instructed to return home to collect a few provisions for them. The detainees were then put on buses and driven to the gare d'Austerlitz train station, where they were immediately boarded onto four special trains bound for the internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers located in the Loiret near Orleans.

The deportation of foreign born Jewish men in occupied Paris was carried out in accordance with the decree of October 4, 1940 which called for their arrest and concentration into camps. Summons were sent on May 14, 1941 to Czech, Austrian, and Polish Jews, who were instructed by the French prefecture of police to come with one relative to specific locations in the capital in order to have their papers examined. On that date approximately 5000 foreign born Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 reported to the various assembly points. Once they arrived, they were forbidden to leave. The friends and relatives who accompanied them were instructed to return home to collect a few provisions for them. The detainees were then put on buses and driven to the gare d'Austerlitz train station, where they were immediately boarded onto four special trains bound for the internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers located in the Loiret near Orleans.

Laurette Alexis-Monet was born in 1923. In 1942 she decided to take a month break from her studies of classics at the University of Aix-en-Provence to volunteer for the Protestant relief group CIMADE (Comite Inter-Movement des Evacues). CIMADE sent her to the Recebedou internment camp in Tarn to help with relief work. She later worked in Nexon in the Haute-Vienne region. Laurette ended up remaining in the camps until outside aid workers were expelled in July 1943.

The deportation of foreign born Jewish men in occupied Paris was carried out in accordance with the decree of October 4, 1940 which called for their arrest and concentration into camps. Summons were sent on May 14, 1941 to Czech, Austrian, and Polish Jews, who were instructed by the French prefecture of police to come with one relative to specific locations in the capital in order to have their papers examined. On that date approximately 5000 foreign born Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 reported to the various assembly points. Once they arrived, they were forbidden to leave. The friends and relatives who accompanied them were instructed to return home to collect a few provisions for them. The detainees were then put on buses and driven to the gare d'Austerlitz train station, where they were immediately boarded onto four special trains bound for the internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers located in the Loiret near Orleans.