Inaugural conferences
Sunday, May 10, 2026 at 2 PM and at 3 PM
As part of the exhibition Images of the 'billet vert' raid
14h – The arrests of the green ticket
On October 4, 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 summons in the form of a simple small green paper. On 14 May 1941, some 3,700 men responded. Little known to the general public, the roundup of the «green ticket» still affects the Jews of Paris. This is the first wave of mass arrests targeting fathers, brothers and husbands. Arrested upon their arrival at the Japy gymnasium, they will then be 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 will be the women and children who came on 14 May 1941 to accompany the men arrested.
In the presence of Jean-Marc Dreyfus, historian and professor at the University of Manchester (UK).
15h – 14 May 1941: images and stories of a raid
The discovery in September 2020 of a photographic report containing 98 previously unpublished images of the 'billet vert' roundup paved the way for a better understanding of this episode in the history of the Shoah in France.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 individuals that appear in these photos, but also their author, a certain Harry Croner, photographer of the Propagandakompanie. 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. Survivor of Auschwitz and the death marches, he was released on May 10, 1945. Her granddaughter, Laurie Cholewa, delivers the investigation she conducted on the deportation journey of her grandfather, in her book Pépé Jacques.
In the presence of Laurie Cholewa, author of the book Pépé Jacques (Robert Laffont, 2025), and Lior Lalieu, curator of the exhibition.
In conversation with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, historian.
At the end of the conferences, the authors will dedicate their works.
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