A new plaque in memory of the victims of the "Green Ticket Roundup"

Photo of a summons called "billet vert" sent by the police prefecture to Monsieur Moïse Kimman, Paris. France, 05/09/1941

On 14 May 1941, 3,700 Jews of foreign nationality living in the suburbs of Paris were arrested at police stations where they had been summoned "for examination of their situation." The green note that had been addressed to them asked that a loved one accompany them. It was generally this relative who brought some personal belongings before the internment of the men arrested in the two open internment camps in Loiret, at Pithiviers and at Beaune-la-Rolande.

It was from these camps that the first deportation convoys to Poland departed in the spring and summer of 1942, almost all the passengers of which were murdered. In Paris, at the Austerlitz station, where everyone passed through, and at the Japy gymnasium, which was one of the gathering points during the roundup, plaques evoke the "green ticket round-up".

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, will unveil this Monday, May 14, 2018 a plaque in the former barracks of the Tourelles, which was another meeting point.