The deportation of the Jews from France The significant documents of 1942

The buses and police cars used to transport the Jews to the Vélodrome d'Hiver during the raid, parked in front of the stadium, Paris 15th arrondissement. France, July 16, 1942. Memorial of the Shoah / CDJC/BHVP.

In France, the roundups of 1942 and those that followed until the Liberation, carried out mainly by the French police, were part of the mechanism that led the Jews of an entire continent to the extermination camps in Poland. Gathered for the first time within an exhibition, archival documents, photographs, letters from deportees illustrate this year 1942, turning point in the history of the destruction of the Jews of Europe.