Transport 75 from Drancy, Camp, France to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 30/05/1944

The 75th transport left Paris-Bobigny on May 30, 1944. The deportation list, compiled at Drancy, comprises 1004 names. A copy of this list was sent to the Union of French Jews (Union Générale des Israélites de France – UGIF). It was recovered by the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Centre (Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine – CDJC) after the war, and edited by Serge Klarsfeld in his memorial to the Jews of France (Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de France). This transport comprised 104 deportees under the age of 18 as well as those internees at the Vittel Camp who had been detained for the purposes of possible prisoner exchange and had been spared from deportation thus far. One of the deportees was the Romanian and French poet Benjamin Fondane who was listed under his Jewish name Benjamin Vecsler. His last letter from Drancy contains specific instructions for the publication of his work. There was also a group of 30 Jews from the Haute-Savoie Department (département, district) who had been arrested between April 23 and May 18 and brought together to Drancy....