As part of the exhibition
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 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 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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The discovery in September 2020 of a photographic report containing 98 previously unseen images of the "billet vert" roundup has opened the way to 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. 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
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In conversation with
At the end of the conferences, the authors will autograph their works.
