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Beginning in the early morning hours of July 16, 1942, and lasting for two days, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison more than 13,000 Jews at a Paris sporting arena, the Vélodrome d'Hiver.
For most of the Jews, this detention without water, food, or sleep was the first horrific step toward death in the concentration camps. Using recently opened police files, Maurice Rajsfus details the internal organization of the police, showing the mechanisms of this raid in particular and of raids in general, making the book an indispensable micro-history of the Holocaust. A uniquely detailed study of a notorious incident of cooperation between xenophobic and anti-Semitic forces. Shocking, large compilation of published articles in the collaborationist press that promoted social discord and hatred of Jews, distorted or obscured the raids on immigrant Jews in Paris under Nazi occupation, and used emotional appeals to nationalism to justify persecution. A companion piece to Rajsfus's Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday (DoppelHouse Press, 2017), The Vél d'Hiv Raid, is the only contemporary analysis of the roundup, its precursors and its aftermath, including witness and police reports, shocking excerpts from the collaborationist press, and speeches by contemporary French politicians whose official apology is still not complete and terribly overdue.
With a foreword by Israeli activist and author Michel Warschawski.
Maurice Rajsfus (b. 1928), a former investigative journalist for Le Monde, survived the Vél d'Hiv roundup. He has written thirty books, including many examining the Vichy regime and its legacy in French police culture. Several of his books about his World War II experiences are the basis of a YA comic published by Tartamudo editions, as well as a theatrical production and a film. He lives in Paris with his family.
Contents
Foreword by Michel Warschawski
Introduction: THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH
PRELUDES TO THE GREAT RAID: THE PREPARATIONS OF THE VICHY GOVERNMENT
THE PREPARATION FOR THE RAID
ARMED VIGIL
THE RAID
- The behavior of the police
- Suicides
- Wanting to do a good job
- Public opinion
- The raids will continue
- The malcontents
TO THE VÉL D'HIV
- Escapes
- The evacuation of the Vél d'Hiv
THE DIRECTORS OF THE GREAT RAID and their Nazi interlocutors
WHAT THE PRESS WAS SAYING
WHO COULD PROTEST?
Conclusion: FOR THE RECORD...
Appendix 1
ORGANIZATION OF THE GREAT ROUNDUP
The decrees issued by Émile Hennequin (Chief of the municipal police) on July 12 and 13, 1942
Appendix 2
FLYER TRANSLATED FROM YIDDISH DISTRIBUTED TO JEWISH IMMIGRANTS IN PARIS A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE ROUNDUP
FLYER TRANSLATED FROM YIDDISH DISTRIBUTED IN PARIS IN AUGUST 1942
Appendix 3
SPEECH BY JACQUES CHIRAC ON JULY 16, 1995 (Delivered at the ceremonies memorializing the roundup of July 16 and 17, 1942)
