“The miracles of the Vél’ d’Hiv” (3/4). On July 16 and 17, 1942, in Paris, the French state police organized the largest roundup of Jewish women, men and children. Final destination: the Auschwitz extermination camp. Eighty years later, “M” returns to this shameful page in the history of France through the stories of survivors. Among them, only a handful managed to escape from the winter velodrome, transformed into a dehumanized cesspool.
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