Tag: VéldHiv
Rafle du Vel’d’Hiv’: chronicle of a planned crime
In the middle of summer, on orders from the Germans, the French police arrested 13,152 Jews. A stain on the honor of France. A tragedy. On June 11, 1942, the…
Commemoration Roundup of Vél’d’Hiv’: Cabu, the drawings of invisible horror
Of the arrest of 12,884 Jews in Paris, including 4,115 children, on July 16 and 17, 1942, only one photograph remains. We see a street in Paris, the pavement glistening…
Roundup of Vél’d’Hiv: in Pithiviers, a new place of remembrance against anti-Semitism
At the rear of Pithiviers station, wild grass and wild flowers grow on the gravel bed of the ballast. The last travelers transited here in 1969. From these tracks now…