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Station Austerlitz

Facade of the station

Station Austerlitz ( French Gare d'Austerlitz ) - one of the six main railway stations in Paris . It is located on the left bank of the Seine in the 13th municipal district . The station serves 68,000 passengers daily (25 million per year), which is about half the passenger traffic of the Montparnasse station .

The name of the station comes from the name of the Moravian city ​​of Austerlitz , where on November 2, 1805 there was a “battle of three emperors” , during which Napoleon defeated the superior Russian- Austrian forces. In honor of the victory at Austerlitz, a French warship was installed at the station.

Trains from the Austerlitz Station leave mainly in the southern direction - to Orleans , Tours , Madrid , Lisbon .

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History

 
A memorial plaque in memory of Jews deported from France at Austerlitz train station: “From the Austerlitz train station, they were sent to the Pitivier and Bon-la-Roland camps for deportation and murder in Auschwitz : 3,700 Jews, all men, May 14, 1941 and from 19 to July 22, 1942 7,800 Jews, including 4,000 children from the Vel d'Ive , arrested in the Paris agglomeration at the request of the German occupiers by the police of the so-called “French State” ”

Austerlitz station was opened on September 20, 1840 in connection with the opening of the Paris- Givusy line , which was extended to Orleans in 1843 . In 1846, the station increased its size. Until the 1900 World Exhibition, the station remained the last stop of the Paris-Orleans line until the new Gar d'Orsay station, which now houses the Orsay Museum , was opened. The Orsay building was closed in 1939 , and at the same time, all long-distance trains were again transferred to Austerlitz station.

 
Austerlitz Station and Mitterrand Library Buildings

On May 14, 1941, 3,700 Jews, all men, were arrested in the Paris agglomeration , this operation was called the "Green Ticket" raid " and occurred 14 months before the Vel d' Ive raid . " Buses of those arrested were taken to Austerlitz station, from where they were sent by train to the Loire on the same day. 1,700 people were taken to the Pitivier camp, 2,000 to Bon-la-Roland . There they will remain for a year. On May 8, 1942, 289 Jews were escorted by a convoy to the Camp Royale in Compiegne . They were mainly deported to Auschwitz on June 5, 1942 by convoy No. 2 in preparation for the raids of the summer of 1942 in order to make way for new prisoners who will now be with their families. Three echelons took the Jews directly to Auschwitz: June 25 and July 17, 1942 from Pitivier, June 28 from Bon-la-Roland [1] . From July 19 to July 22, 1942, 7800 Jews were sent from Austerlitz station, including 4000 children arrested during the Vel d'Ive raid . They ended up in the camps of Bon-la-Roland and Pitivier, from where they were deported to the death camps of Nazi Germany in Poland .

Transport

Metro : lines 5 and 10
RER : line C

Notes

  1. ↑ Nathalie Grenon. May 14, 1941. La "rafle du billet vert" (French) . Herodote.net (27 novembre 2018). Date of treatment June 21, 2019.

Links

  • Austerlitz Station (French)
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Austerlitz Station&oldid = 100579696


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