Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

On August 20, 1941, French police conducted raids throughout the 11th District of Paris, and arrested more than 4,000 Jews.
French authorities interned these Jews in Camp d'internement de Drancy, marking its official opening.
French police enclosed the barracks and courtyard with barbed-wire fencing, and provided guards for the camp.
Camp d'internement de Drancy fell under the command of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs in France, and German SS Captain Theodor Dannecker.
Five subcamps of Drancy were located throughout Paris, including:
* Austerlitz
* Lévitan
* Bassano

Until July 4, 1943, Camp d'internement de Drancy was under the control of the French police, when Germany took direct control of Drancy, and SS officer, Alois Brunner, became camp commandant as part of the major stepping up at all facilities needed for mass extermination.
The French police carried out additional roundups les Rafles of Jews throughout the war.

On April 6, 1944, SS First Lieutenant Klaus Barbie raided a children's home in Izieu, where Jewish children had been hidden.
Klaus Barbie arrested everyone, including all 44 children and 7 adult staff members.
The next day, the Gestapo transported the arrestees to Camp d'internement de Drancy, from where, all the children and staff were deported to Auschwitz Konzentrationslager.
None of them survived.

Mark Schulman cites: "About 76,000 Jews, including 12,000 children, were deported from France between 1941 and 1944. Only about 2,500 survived. Drancy, outside of Paris, was the primary camp for Jews being deported to Auschwitz and the other death camps of Poland and Eastern Europe."