A new plaque in memory of the victims of the "greenback raid"

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

On May 14, 1941, 3700 Jews of foreign nationality living in Paris near its suburbs were arrested in the police stations where they had been summoned "for examination of their situation". The green note that had been addressed to them asked for a relative to accompany them. It is generally this relative who brought some personal effects 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 left in the spring and summer of 1942, with almost all the passengers murdered. In Paris, at the Austerlitz station, where everyone passed through, and the Japy gymnasium, which was one of the gathering points during the raid, plaques evoke the "green ticket raid".

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