Shoah Memorial in Drancy

A place of History and Remembrance

The Cité de la Muette in Drancy was designed in the 1930s as a low-income housing complex. Unfinished when the war broke out, it served as an internment and assembly camp for Jews. Nearly 63,000 were deported from there to the extermination camps.

Overlooking the Cité de la Muette, the Memorial focuses on Drancy’s history, the lives of the people interned there from 1941 to 1944 and the deportations from the camp starting in 1942.

Designed as a place of living memory, the exhibition tells the story of the camp through video testimonies and archival footage. Visitors use a simple SmartGuide to trigger content and hear the story told in the language of their choice through headphones.