An exceptional discovery for History
Shoah Memorial, September 2020. Two collectors present themselves at the photo library with five photographic contact sheets laminated on large cardboard sheets. Of these photographs, only seven are already known to specialists on the subject and have been published. They are marked with a cross on the original plates. The others are unpublished. This is the complete report. An exceptional set of 98 images comes back to light, 80 years after the fact. This report documents the first mass arrest of Jews in France, the raid of 14 May 1941 called "billet vert", ordered by the occupier and organized by the French authorities.
Today, an exhibition and a book offer the public the opportunity to participate in the investigation that led to the discovery of the identity of the photographer, Harry Croner, and to understand his "perspective" on these tragic events, a perspective on which German censorship was imposed. condemning these historical photographs to an oversight of more than 80 years.
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Texts by Lior Lalieu and Jean-Marc Dreyfus. Éditions Calmann‐Lévy – Mémorial de la Shoah, 2026, 176 pages.
On sale at the Memorial bookstore
Free admission
