Transport from Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France to Drancy, Camp, France on 31/08/1942

A transport was scheduled to leave from the Saint-Roch train station in Nice on August 31. The transport of August 31 included 560 Jews from the Nice area who had been arrested during the round-up of August 26 and assembled in the Auvare barracks in Nice. Many arrived in their bathing suits as they had been arrested on the beaches of Nice. Among those detained 66 were arrested in Monaco. While the principality of Monaco remained neutral until the Italian occupation in November 1942, close ties were maintained with the Vichy regime and similar anti-Jewish legislations were put into place. In August 1942, Monaco complied with the Vichy order to deport the non-Monegasque Jews from the Principality. 66 Jews were arrested by French police, and taken to the Auvare barracks in Nice where they joined the others who had been arrested in that region. Margeurite Frankfurt-Feigel, was arrested in Nice, with her 3 year old daugher, Monique on August 26, and detained in the Auvare barracks. She wrote a letter to an unknown recipient, asking that her child be taken in: “Unfortunately, they have detained me in a barrack here in Nice with little Monique. I don’t know where my husband is. I have no address […] I beg of you to take in Monique, as much as it pains me to be separated from my beloved child […]”...