{"id":16718,"date":"2024-06-17T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/vel-dhiv-roundup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:10:58","slug":"vel-dhiv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/vel-dhiv-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On Thursday, July 16, and Friday, July 17, 1942, the largest roundup of Jews\u2014known as the Vel\u2019 d\u2019Hiv Roundup\u2014took place. These Jews\u2014foreign nationals, stateless persons, or those who had been stripped of their citizenship\u2014were, for the most part, herded into the V\u00e9lodrome d\u2019Hiver in Paris. They were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp to be gassed there. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thanks to a few police officers who participated in the Resistance and leaked the information, a leaflet from \u201cSolidarit\u00e9\u201d\u2014an offshoot of the Jewish section of the M.O.I.\u2014warned Jews, in Yiddish and French, of an imminent large-scale roundup.<\/p>

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On July 16 and 17, 1942, at the behest of the Nazis, 7,000 police officers and gendarmes carried out a mass arrest of Jews, organized by Ren\u00e9 Bousquet, secretary general of the Vichy police, and the Commissioner General for Jewish Affairs, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix. Jews\u2014including foreigners, stateless persons, and those stripped of their French citizenship\u2014were arrested. For the time being, French Jews were not targeted. <\/p>

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Many Jews did not know where to hide, but without the leaflet distributed by \u201cSolidarit\u00e9,\u201d the toll would have been even higher. 13,152 Jews were rounded up in Paris. Among them\u2014and for the first time\u2014were women, the elderly, and children. More than 4,000 children. Single people and childless couples were sent directly to the Drancy camp. Families were crammed into the V\u00e9lodrome d\u2019Hiver; the conditions of detention were appalling, and the stench was putrid. After several days of confinement at the Vel\u2019d\u2019Hiv, the families were gathered together in the transit camps at Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers. The escalation of inhumanity accelerated: adults and teenagers were the first to be sent to their scheduled extermination. Young children were torn from their mothers, transferred to Drancy, and then deported in turn. <\/p>

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All of them were crammed into cattle cars bound for the Auschwitz camp in Poland. The children were the first to be gassed.The latest research points to a \u201croundup after the roundup.\u201d Since the number of Jews rounded up was deemed insufficient, the operation continued in late August. 1,200 adults and hundreds of children were arrested. The death toll then reached 14,000. Other roundups would follow. <\/p>

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Only non-French Jews were targeted in these roundups, but the Vichy regime, in an effort to consolidate its power in the face of the Nazis, deported 3,000 French children of foreign parents. The goal was to inflate the death toll from the V\u00e9l’ d’Hiv’ roundup. <\/p>

When school started again in October 1942 in Paris, many children were missing from the classrooms\u2026 In the provinces\u2014in Bordeaux, for example\u2014on the orders of Maurice Papon, secretary general of the Gironde prefecture, on July 16, 1942, the fate of Jews, both adults and children, was the same: Drancy, Auschwitz\u2026<\/p>

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It was not until July 16, 1995, that the crimes of the Vichy regime were officially acknowledged. The President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, said: \u201cYes, the occupying power\u2019s criminal madness was aided by the French people and by the French state.\u201d <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2014 Serge Klarsfeld, 1983, Vichy-Auschwitz: The Role of Vichy in the Final Solution, Paris <\/em>, Fayard. <\/p>

\u2014 Paxton, Robert O., 1999, *Vichy France: 1940\u20131944<\/em>*. Paris: \u00c9ditions du Seuil. <\/p>

\u2014 Joly, Laurent, 2022, *The Vel\u2019d\u2019Hiv Roundup: Paris, July 1942<\/em>*. Grasset <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, July 16, and Friday, July 17, 1942, the largest roundup of Jews\u2014known as the Vel\u2019 d\u2019Hiv Roundup\u2014took place. These Jews\u2014foreign nationals, stateless persons, or those who had been stripped of their citizenship\u2014were, for the most part, herded into the V\u00e9lodrome d\u2019Hiver in Paris. They were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"salle":[169],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-16718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","salle-8-3-the-solidarity-appeal-the-vel-dhiv-roundup"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16721,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718\/revisions\/16721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16718"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=16718"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=16718"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=16718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}