December 1941, a shift in the Holocaust in France?

Sunday 18 December 2016 at 2:30 PM
Dessin de Jacques Gotko du camp de Compiègne, décembre 1941. Mémorial de la Shoah.

Drawing by Jacques Gotko
from the camp of Compiègne,
December 1941.
Shoah Memorial.

The year 2016 marks the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the roundup of 12 December 1941 in Paris, and the execution of 75 hostages at Mont-Valérien on 15 December 1941. These two events are the beginning of a turning point in the implementation of the Final Solution in France, between "the hostage policy" and the deportation of the Jews from France as part of the genocide.

In the presence of Serge Klarsfeld, historian and lawyer, president of the association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish deportees from France, Thomas Fontaine, historian, and Antoine Grande, director of the Hauts lieux de la mémoire nationale d'Île-de-France, ONACVG.

Led by Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for the development of places of memory and external projects, Memorial of the Shoah.

This meeting is followed by a commemoration at 5:30 p.m. (see below)

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Meeting followed by a commemoration at the Shoah Memorial

Tribute to the executed of Mont-Valérien

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