Deportation Memorial "Convoi 73"

The monument in red marble was unveiled on November 26, 2006 and reminds us of the 73rd convoy.

Convoy 73 was a convoy of Jews captured in Drancy who were deported to the Baltic States at Bobigny train station on May 15, 1944.
878 male prisoners were deported to extermination camps in Kaunas Lithuania and to Reval-Tallinn in Estonia. Probably to work on the concrete structures for the organization Todt.
At the end of the war, only 22 deportees were still alive.

Among the deportees was the father and brother of Simone Veil, one of France's most beloved celebrities. She herself was deported with her mother and sister to Auschwitz and from there to Bergen-Belsen. Simone Veil was the only one to survive.

The families of the victims did not learn of the destination of this convoy until the mid-1990s, fifty years after the facts, in particular through the discovery of an inscription on a wall of the Ninth Fort "We are 900 French".

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• Text: Geert-Jan van Glabbeek
• Photos: Geert-Jan van Glabbeek