Newly surfaced photos show wartime mass arrest of Jews in France
An outdoor exhibition showing these photos has been set up in Paris - it marks the 80th anniversary the country’s first mass roundup of Jewish people
17 May 2021
Outside the Gymnase Japy, where Jewish men were rounded up before being deported to prison camps. Their families wait outside anxiously.
Newly discovered photos documenting the first mass arrest of Jewish people in France during World War Two shed new light on the historic event, showing the emotions of the victims.
The photos document what is known as the
Rafle du Billet Vert (Green Ticket Roundup).
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France s dark role in rounding up Jews: Previously-unseen pictures show men boarding a train in Paris watched by SS Final Solution chief after thousands were lured to routine registrations then arrested by French officials
The green ticket round-up saw Jews in Paris invited for a status review which appeared to be a formality
When they arrived, the Jews were immediately arrested and sent away to internment camps in France
They were held for as long as a year in the camps before they were sent to Auschwitz where they were killed
Photos of the round-up taken by a German soldier on a propaganda mission have been recently discovered
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The mystery of the tiny French village exterminated by the Nazis
Oradour-sur-Glane was flattened by the Nazis in 1944; its inhabitants massacred. With help from survivors, a new book unravels the atrocity
The silent village: Oradour-sur-Glane
On the morning of June 10, 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was – like the rest of France – hopeful. It was just days after the Allies had successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy – D-Day on June 6 – following four years under the Nazi occupation and collaborationist regime of Vichy France.
“Word had been coming in all week about the successful Allied landings that had taken place earlier that week,” writes Robert Pike in his new book, Silent Village. “Everybody knew that there was still a long way to go, but an end might finally be in sight.”