As part of the opening of the exhibition "Images from the 'Green Ticket' Roundup: An Exceptional Discovery for History" which opens this Sunday, May 10, 2026.
Sunday, May 10, at 2 p.m.
Gymnase Japy, May 14, 1941, the so-called "billet vert" roundup. Theodor Dannecker facing the French police officers. © Shoah Memorial / Harry Croner.
On 4 October 1940, a decree-law promulgated by the Pétain government authorized the internment of foreign Jews.
Between 9 and 13 May 1941, the French police sent 6,494 summonses in the form of a simple little green paper.
On May 14, 1941, some 3,700 men responded. Little known to the general public, the "green ticket" roundup nevertheless lastingly hit the
Jews of Paris. This was the first wave of mass arrests targeting fathers, brothers, and husbands. Arrested on arrival at the Japy gymnasium, they were then transferred to the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande before being deported to Poland.
On 16 and 17 July 1942, the first victims of the Vel d'Hiv roundup were women and children who came on 14 May 1941 to accompany the men arrested.
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Sunday, May 10, at 3 p.m.
Laurie Cholewa (– ) David CholewaThe discovery in September 2020 of a photographic report containing 98 previously unseen images from the "billet vert" roundup has paved the way for a better understanding of this episode in the history of the Shoah in France.
Since then, the teams of the Memorial have identified the places and the individuals who appear in these photos, but also their author, a certain Harry Croner, photographer of the Propagandakompanie.
From left to right: Lior Lalieu, Jean-Marc Dreyfus <DR
Presented for the first time to the general public, this unique set gives back face and body to the actors and victims of the "green ticket", like Yankiel Zylberberg. A survivor of Auschwitz and the death marches, he was released on 10 May 1945.
Her granddaughter, Laurie Cholewa, gives an account of the investigation she conducted into her grandfather’s deportation journey in her book
Laurie Cholewa (– ) David Cholewa
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At the end of the conferences, the authors will sign their books.
Sunday, May 10, at 5:30 p.m.
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The members of the Jewish Socialist Youth (JSJ), gathered after the first congress held on 8 May 1945 in Paris. © The Medem Center.
Salomon Buch is 17 years old and lives in the Jewish quarter of Belleville when the Germans invade France. In 1941, his father was arrested during the "billet vert" roundup. On his advice, Salomon fled to Lyon, in the free zone. On 16 July 1942, the Vel d'Hiv roundup took away the rest of his family, with the exception of Denise, the eldest of his sisters. In this testimony of a striking hypermnesia, Buch gives us his story and, with it, that of an entire milieu still remaining today in the state of traces: the Paris of the Bund and its various organizations, whose ties of solidarity continued during and after the war.
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