{"id":16552,"date":"2024-05-16T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/musee\/vel-dhiv-roundup-the-ftp-m-o-i\/3-the-solidarity-appeal-the-veldhiv-roundup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:34:24","slug":"3-the-solidarity-appeal-the-veldhiv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"musee","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/musee\/vel-dhiv-roundup-the-ftp-m-o-i\/3-the-solidarity-appeal-the-veldhiv-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"3 – The “Solidarity” Appeal \u2013 The Vel\u2019d\u2019Hiv Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On May 29, 1942, a German ordinance mandated that Jews over the age of six\u2014whether French or foreign nationals\u2014in the occupied zone wearthe Jewish star<\/a> in public. Effective June 7, 1942, this yellow star had to be sewn onto outer clothing on the left side of the chest. <\/p>


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Jewish communist resistance fighters tried to make the Jewish population understand the gravity of the danger as they themselves became aware of it. A June issue of the underground newspaper *Unzer Wort*<\/a><\/em>called on Jews to build closer ties with the French population. <\/p>


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In early July 1942, thanks to \u201cleaks\u201d from police officers in the Resistance, \u201c <\/strong>Solidarity<\/a> <\/strong>“, a clandestine organization within the Jewish section of the M.O.I., alerted the Jews by distributing a leaflet in Yiddish<\/a> announcing mass deportations. The text urged Jews\u2014who until then had been very law-abiding\u2014to go into hiding. But not all of them would be able to escape their pursuers. Once again, it was the French police<\/a> who were carrying out the operation, at the request of the Nazis. <\/p>\n

The largest roundup of foreign, stateless, or denaturalized Jews was scheduled for Thursday, July 16, and Friday, July 17, 1942.<\/p>


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13,152 Jews were arrested. Childless couples and single people were sent directly to the Drancy internment camp. Families were crammed into the V\u00e9lodrome d\u2019Hiver in Paris. After several days of detention under barbaric conditions, they were transferred to the internment and transit camps<\/a> at Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. <\/p>\n

Adults and teenagers were the first to be sent to their inevitable doom. Young children are torn from their mothers, transferred to Drancy, and then deported as well. All of them\u2014women and men, old and young\u2014will be crammed into cattle cars bound for Poland. Their destination: theAuschwitz<\/a> death camp. <\/p>


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This roundup, known as the Vel\u2019d\u2019Hiv<\/a> roundup, targeted women, the elderly, and children for the first time. More than 4,000 children. <\/p>\n

They would be the first to be gassed<\/a>. Not a single one would be spared. When school started again in October 1942 in Paris, many neighborhoods would be missing a great many children from their classrooms\u2026 In all, more than 6,000 Jewish children would be exterminated during the year 1942. <\/p>\n

During the same period, Jews\u2014both adults and children\u2014were arrested throughout France, rounded up in internment camps, and then deported to Auschwitz.<\/p>


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After July 16 and 17, about a hundred young Jewish men and women from Paris who had escaped the roundup spontaneously joined the ranks of the FTP-M.O.I. The Jewish section of the M.O.I. was on the front lines of the political struggle and the armed Resistance.<\/p>


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The wearing of the yellow star and the Vel\u2019 d\u2019Hiv roundup marked a true turning point in the awareness\u2014among both the Jewish and non-Jewish populations\u2014of the barbarity of the Nazis and the Vichy regime.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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