Exhibition 'It’s tomorrow that we leave. Letters from internees, from the Vel d'Hiv to Auschwitz'

From the end of 1940, tens of thousands of Jews found themselves locked up in the internment camps of the free zone and then in those of the occupied zone. Their only link with the outside is then the correspondence that they can sometimes send to their relatives.

With the triggering of the «Final Solution» in 1942 and the deportations, this tenuous thread maintained with the outside turns into a farewell before the deportation. These letters are often the last traces left by the victims on the eve of their departure, or even sometimes written from the wagons taking them "to the East".

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With the support of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis, the city of Drancy, France TV and Toute l'histoire