Le Bourget is a station on the line B of the Réseau Express Régional, a hybrid suburban commuter and

rapid transit Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be c ...

line. The station is also served by Paris Tramway Line 11. The station will be where the Paris Metro Line 16 and Paris Metro Line 17 divide, with Line 16 heading to Noisy-Champs and Line 17 going to Le Mesnil-Amelot. It is named after the town of

Le Bourget Le Bourget () is a Communes of France, commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero#France, center of Paris. The commune features Paris - Le Bourget Airport, Le Bourget Airport, which in turn hos ...

where the station is located, a northern suburb of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France.

History

Le Bourget station was the primary point of deportation for French Jews during

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

. Between 27 March 1942 and 23 June 1943, 42 trains carrying 40,450 Jews left Le Bourget for

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

and other

extermination camp Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (german: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (), or killing centers (), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust. The v ...

s in Poland. Most had been imprisoned in the nearby Drancy internment camp. Commemorative plaque on the station forecourt

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* Railway stations in France opened in 1863 Railway stations in Seine-Saint-Denis Réseau Express Régional stations Paris Métro line 16 {{IledeFrance-railstation-stub