This wooden board was found in the remains of the Drancy internment camp in Paris suburb after the liberation. This internment camp, was built in august 1941 to concentrate all the jews rounded up in France by Gestapo and French collaborators and also some coming from Germany, before they were deported to different camps like Auschwitz. Board is made from some smaller wood boards, using nails. It's painted in grey and it has a text in black paint written in French: "Entreé interdite sauf alerte. SANCTIONS", that means "Entrance is forbidden except warning. PUNISHMENT". This board was probably hanging on the barbed wire fence or any of the entrances of the camp, to warn people from outside not to enter the complex, as it was strictly forbidden, being punished the law breaking. Or maybe to control the access to some areas inside Drancy camp. That is, a kind of dissuasive board. This item is 100% genuine, with the best provenance and coming from a reputed collector of Holocaust stuff in France. It is offered along with another smaller pointer from Drancy, but sold seaprately in our shop.