Internees in the Drancy transfer camp outside of Paris referred to their deportation destination as Pitchipoi, “the place beyond.” They were told that in there they would have better accommodations, food, and meaningful work. It was a lie.

Germany and Jews take center stage in any history of the Holocaust, as well they should. Less dealt with are the hundreds of thousands of Romani (a.k.a. Gypsies) murdered and France’s cooperation in the rounding up and exportation of targeted ethnic groups ...