New! Exhibition "Cabu drawings of the Vel d'Hiv roundup"
Friday 01 July 2022March 07 November 2022
In the spring of 1967, the magazine Le Nouveau Candide published the good sheets of La Grande Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, July 16, 1942 by Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard (Robert Laffont). To illustrate this series in five episodes, the editorial team calls upon a young 29-year-old illustrator, Jean Cabut, dit Cabu.
The book by Lévy and Tillard traces, through documents and testimonies, the progress of the roundup and the confinement to the Vélodrome d'Hiver of more than 8,000 of the approximately 13,000 victims of the arrests. Pointing out the role of the French police and the Vichy government in the deportation of the Jews by the Nazis, the book provokes a shock in public opinion. It is also a shock for Cabu, who discovers this tragedy too quickly forgotten and puts the best of his talent to translate into drawings the scenes described.
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup, Véronique Cabut, his wife, and the Shoah Memorial propose to rediscover these drawings never exhibited since their publication. This exhibition is also a tribute to an ingenious and popular cartoonist who was one of the twelve victims of the jihadist attack on 7 January 2015 against the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo.
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Scientific Commission: Laurent Joly, director of research at the CNRS.
Coordination of the exhibition: Sophie Nagiscarde, head of the cultural activities department, Shoah Memorial.
Graphics and scenography: Michael Levin, Doc Levin.
Photo: The Little Girl behind the door. Cabu, 1967. Pen and ink on paper. 29.9 x 40.3 cm. Published in the New Candide, no. 313. © V. Cabut.
