Children of Drancy

The play, Children of Drancy: a montage of voices, was created entirely from letters, archival documents, as well as the poetry and drawings of victims of the arrest and deportation of Jews, including 11,400 children, from French concentration camps to Auschwitz during the German occupation of France, 1940-1944. Most were deported from Drancy, a concentration camp outside of Paris. In all, almost 76,000 were deported. 2,000 children were less than six years old. None of these young children survived. In all, only 2,500 of the deportees ever returned.

Project Collaborator(s): Inez Hedges