Fort de Romainville was a Nazi prison and transit camp, located in the outskirts of Paris.

People were interned there before being deported to Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald or Dachau concentration camps; the deportees comprised 3,900 women and 3,100 men.

From her cell, Danielle Casanova motivated and encouraged her comrades to confront their torturers.

[2] From February 1944, the Fort held primarily female prisoners (resistants and hostages), who were jailed, executed or redirected to the camps.

At liberation in August 1944, many abandoned corpses were found in the Fort's yard.