Abstract
This chapter calls attention to the too-little-known history of the deportation of nearly 76,000 Jews (including 11,400 children) from France during the German occupation, 1940–1944. Most of the deportees passed through the concentration camp of Drancy, just outside Paris. Drancy has now become a memorial site. I describe the powerful plays about the French Holocaust by Liliane Atlan, Charlotte Delbo, and Armand Gatti. My own accompanying play, Children of Drancy, is a montage of letters written by children and others from the camp (including poems by Max Jacob who perished there), documents from the occupying German forces, and other resources that bring those events to life. The chapter includes a bibliography for further reading.
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