Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Art Deco, "Entr'Aide", bronze plaquette [1933], by Robert Cochet (1903 - 1988), issued c. 1945, by the township of Drancy as a tribute medal, a young man carries his infirm elder, rev. LE COMITE DE LA FRATERNELLE DES ANCIENS DE DRANCY A LEUR CAMARADE BLANOR EN RECONNAISSANCE DE LEUR DEVOUEMENT, 76.5 x 53.5mm, extremely fine, rare and of holocaust interest
It was from the internment camp at Drancy, near to Paris, that as many as 67,400 Jews were deported to the extermination camps in Germany. When it was liberated by the Allies on 17 August, 1944, only 1,542 remained alive
(80-120 GBP)