Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
The Vel' d'Hiv' Roundup was a mass arrest of foreign Jewish families by French police and gendarmes under the orders of German authorities. It took place in Paris on 16 and 17 July 1942. 13,152 Jews were arrested, including more than 4,000 children.[1]
In the week following the arrests, the Jews were taken to the Drancy, Pithiviers, and Beaune-la-Rolande internment camps,[1] before being shipped to Auschwitz for their mass murder.
Vel' D'Hiv Roundup Media
Two Jewish women in occupied Paris wearing the yellow Star of David badge in June 1942, a few weeks before the mass arrest
The deportation route from Paris to Auschwitz
Pierre Laval with the head of German police units in France, Carl Oberg
A French gendarme guarding Jews held at the Drancy internment camp
Commemorative plaque to the 8,160 victims held in the Vel' d'Hiv after the 16–17 July 1942 roundup of Jews in Paris. Inaugurated on 20 July 2008, the plaque is facing the Bir-Hakeim metro station on the Boulevard de Grenelle in the (15th arrondissement of Paris), a few meters from the site of the former Vel d'Hiv
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A railway wagon used to carry internees to Auschwitz and now displayed at Drancy
