Thousands of French Jews today attended the dedication at Drancy, site of a Jewish concentration camp during the German occupation, of a monument to the 100,000 victims who were deported from Drancy to death camps in Poland. Religious services were led by Chief Rabbi Julian Weil of Paris.
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