In 1987, the SNCF was planning the demolition of the so-called railway passenger building. Thanks to the combined effort of the Auschwitz Memorial Fund Association (AFMA) and Georges Valbon (Mayor of Bobigny) who called on the State concerning this matter, the demolition was narrowly avoided. Supported by the City of Bobigny, the Auschwitz Memorial Fund Association (AFMA) and the Association of Convoy 73 there are regularly organized commemorative ceremonies. This work participated in the early nineties in the progressive construction of the memorial of the former deportation station of Bobigny.

This was the beginning of a process that led in 2005 to the recognition of this site as an historical monument. The same year, the scrap metal yard was moved and the Railway Network of France (RFF) sold to the city the railway passenger building for the symbolic amount of one franc.