The Silent City of Drancy: Social Housing and Holocaust Memory on the Margins of Paris

An expansive spatial history of Drancy, the Parisian antechamber to Auschwitz, from the 1930s to the present day.

Architecture gives form to history and memory. In this compelling book, Hesz-Wood tells the extraordinary story of a building in Drancy, a town on the north-eastern outskirts of Paris. Drancy's name has, in France at least, become synonymous with the internment and deportation of Jewish people. From 1941 to 1944, Drancy internment camp operated as an antechamber to Auschwitz: the...