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Salle 8 - Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.
Jan–Jul 42

8. The Vel’d’Hiv round-up | The FTP-M.O.I.

A scene from daily life after June 7, 1942, when Jews were required to wear the yellow star.

Jews wearing the Star of David in Paris’s Marais neighborhood in 1942.

List of “Aryan” individuals interned at Camp des Tourelles (Paris) for wearing the Jewish star out of “sympathy for the Jews” (June 20, 1942).

The underground newspaper *L’Université libre* (June 11, 1942) denounced anti-Semitism and called on teachers to join the National Liberation Front.

June 1942: House arrest order, issued in the southern zone pursuant to the law of October 4, 1940, concerning “foreign nationals of the Jewish race.”

Playground reserved for children; Jews prohibited. Paris, November 1942.

French ID card stamped with the word “Jews.”

A leaflet concerning the sabotage of locomotives, seized during a raid by the 1st Special Brigade (1942).

An account by Jacob Szmulewicz of armed actions against German soldiers.

A leaflet from “Solidarity” (the Jewish section of the M.O.I.) in Yiddish announcing the upcoming roundups and urging Jews to go into hiding and join the Resistance (late June 1942).

Translation of the “Solidarity” leaflet (Jewish section of the M.O.I.): French translation of the leaflet announcing the upcoming roundups and urging Jews to go into hiding and join the Resistance (late June 1942).

Copy of a memo from T. Dannecker, the Gestapo officer in charge of “the Jewish question” in Paris. Instructions dated July 4, 1942, regarding the organization of “the major operation” to arrest Jews in Paris.

Activists from the Jewish section are working to warn the Jewish population of an impending roundup and the need to go into hiding. Testimony by Robert Endewelt.

A roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942 carried out by French police officers.

Letter from the Paris Police Prefecture regarding the provision of 50 buses on July 16 and 17, 1942.

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup

In front of the Vélodrome d’Hiver (“Vel’ d’Hiv'”), Paris, 15th arrondissement, the buses used to transport the rounded-up Jews (July 17, 1942). The only photograph of the roundup.

Memo from the Prefect of Police (July 22, 1942) following the evacuation of the Vél’ d’Hiv’.

Letter dated August 3, 1942, from the Secretariat of the Police in the Occupied Zone, regarding the separation of parents from their children in deportation convoys.

Jews in the courtyard of the Drancy camp, a hub for deportations to extermination camps.

*Pitiwye Zaytung*, a Yiddish newspaper published by the internees at the Pithiviers camp, June 1942.

Aerial view of the Pithiviers camp (Loiret), an internment camp for Jews beginning in April 1941.

Barracks 14 and 15 at the Beaune-la-Rolande camp (Loiret).

Inside a barracks at the Beaune-la-Rolande camp (summer of 1941).