Large black swastikas were found painted on a French memorial at a Holocaust deportation site outside Paris in Drancy, France, on April 11, 2009. They were daubed on a railway wagon used to deport French Jews and on a commemorative pillar. A 1.5 metre (five foot) swastika was painted on the wagon, another one metre high was found on the pillar and a third was painted on the wall of a shop about 500 metres away. A Jewish student group Saturday condemned the vandalism at Drancy. From 1941 to 1944 Drancy served as the main transit camp for French prisoners of the German SS. More than 76,000 people were deported from there to the death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor and only about 2,000 survived. A further 3,000 are thought to have perished at Drancy from abuse, starvation, or disease. The last Auschwitz-bound transport left the camp on July 31 1944, and the site was liberated 18 days later. Photo by Mousse/ABACAPRESS.COM