In the spring of 1967, the magazine Le Nouveau Candide published les bonnes feuilles from La Grande rafle du Vel d'Hiv', 16 July 1942 by Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard (Robert Laffont). To illustrate this series in five episodes, the editorial team uses a young 29-year-old cartoonist, Jean Cabut, known as Cabu. The book by Lévy and Tillard retraces, through documents and testimonies, the progress of the roundup and the confinement to the Vélodrome d'Hiver of more than 8,000 of the approximately 13,000 victims of the arrests. Pointing out the role of the French police and the Vichy government in the deportation of Jews from France by the Nazis, the book provokes a shock to public opinion. It is also a shock for Cabu, who discovers this tragedy too quickly forgotten and puts the best of his talent to translate into drawings the scenes described. Based on the sixteen valuable drawings of Cabu presented by historian Laurent Joly, research director at CNRS, Véronique Cabut, Cabu’s wife, and the Shoah Memorial propose to trace the key moments of the Vel d'Hiv roundup. This exhibition is also a tribute to an ingenious and popular cartoonist who was one of the twelve victims of the jihadist attack on 7 January 2015 against the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo.
Photo credit: The little girl behind the door. Cabu, 1967. Pen and India ink on paper. 29.9 x 40.3 cm. Published in no. 313 of the
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