Ancienne gare de déportation de Bobigny

1876
Début Construction begins on the Outer loop railroad.

1914
Installation of a branch line from the Bobigny stop to the fort at Aubervilliers.

1919
Opening of the “Bobigny depot” at Drancy.

July 9th, 1928
Construction of the Bobigny train station begins.

1931
Installation of a branch line from the Bobigny stop to the print shop for the magazine l'Illustration. Construction of a freight hangar near the Bobigny station.

1932
The Complementary Line is open to passengers.
Construction of the Cité de la Muette (later to become the Drancy camp).

January 30th, 1933
Hitler is appointed Chancellor of the Reich.

March, 1933
The first concentration camps open at Dachau and Oranienburg.

1935
Economic crisis.
Construction of the Cité de la Muette is halted.

1938
Creation of the SNCF.
The Outer Loop railroad line is integrated into the SNCF network.

1939
Suppression of passenger service on the Complementary Line.
Start of the Second World War (September 1st, 1939).

October 3rd, 1940
First Jewish Statute promulgated by the Vichy government.

March 29th, 1941
Creation in France of the Commissariat général aux questions juives [Central Commissariat for Jewish Questions].

June 2nd, 1941
Second Statute of Jews in France.

July-september, 1941
Nazis decide to proceed to the "final solution of the Jewish question".

August 20th, 1941
Drancy racial internment camp is opened.

January 22nd, 1942
Wansee Conference organizes the "final solution".

March 27th, 1942
First deportation convoy leaves the Drancy-Le Bourget station.

May-June, 1942
Jews in Holland, Belgium, and France (occupied zone) are ordered to wear the yellow star.

July 16th-17th, 1942
Vel' d'Hiv' Roundup.

August, 1942
Roundup of Jews in the southern zone of France.

July 14th, 1943
Instructions from Knochen ordering that French Jews be subject to the same fate as foreign Jews.

July 18th, 1943
First deportation convoy leaves Bobigny station.

August 15th to 25th, 1944
Liberation of Paris.

August 17th, 1944
Last deportation convoy leaves Bobigny station.

January 27th, 1945
Liberation of Auschwitz.