The Silent City of Drancy
Social Housing and Holocaust Memory on the Margins of Paris
The Silent City of Drancy
Social Housing and Holocaust Memory on the Margins of Paris
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Description
An expansive spatial history of Drancy, the Parisian antechamber to Auschwitz, from the 1930s to the present day.
Drancy, a town in the north-eastern outskirts of Paris, is now synonymous with internment and deportation. From the summer of 1941 to the summer of 1944, 67,000 of the 75,000 Jews deported from France under Nazi occupation were at one time incarcerated in Drancy internment camp. Hesz-Wood challenges this perception and presents Drancy as bound to, but not defined by, this traumatic history.
Through a novel methodological approach-where a chronological spatial history is presented through an interpretation of oral histories-this discussion seeks to interrelate complex and contradictory narratives. Hesz-Wood explores the city from its initial conception in the 1930s by French architects Beaudouin and Lods as a model city, through eight decades of personal histories to understand how the once ground-breaking prefabricated social housing complex came to represent antithetic ideals-oscillating between a symbol of urban utopia and a place of incarceration and terror.
Table of Contents
PART 1: SPATIAL ORIGINS
Chapter 1. The Cité de la Muette
PART II: REPURPOSING
Chapter 2. Internment
Chapter 3. Deportation
Chapter 4. Liberation
PART III: MEMORIALISATION AND CO-EXISTENCE
Chapter 5. Normalisation and Remembrance
Chapter 6. History, Memory, Life
Chapter 7. Interpretation, Intervention, Representation
Conclusion
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 01 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350453456 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 20 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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