Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup was a Nazi raid and arresting in Paris by the French police on July 16th and 17 of 1942. Those arrested were taken to Veldrome d'Hiver, a large stadium in Paris, and the Drany internment camp nearby. After staying at the stadium and the camp, the arrested were then shipped to Auschwitz. Emile Hennequin on July 12th that the arrest must happen quickly and without asking questions. The roundup began at 4:00 a.m. on the 16th. The police had records of all the Jews in Paris. 13,512 Jews total were arrested, 5,802 were women and 4,051 were children. An unknown amount of people escaped because they knew early about the roundup or were missed (on purpose, or accidentally) by the police. There were special conditions to the arrest. Those arrested were only allowed to bring a blanket, a sweater, two shirts and a pair of shoes with them. Many families were split apart, and were never reunited.
In the end, the roundup made up one fourth of the 42,000 Jews that were sent from France to Auschwitz in 1942. Only 811 returned to France at the end of the war.
Note: This doesn't have much to anything to do with US History, but it's an event that intrigues me so I wrote about it anyway:D
Isn't that amazing that other countries worked with Germany on the extermination of the Jews? Did you know that? It is amazing to me that genocide continues today. Check out my historical rendition of May 23, 1788....
ReplyDeleteI know, it's crazy. It seems, after looking back on the Holocaust, that countries would have been less willing to help out with the extermination. I just can't see how anyone could approve of the deaths of so many innocent people...
ReplyDeleteVery interesting! i never heard of this before
ReplyDeleteThis is intersting... i can't believe how many people were against Jews and just how many Nazis there were.
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