Paris – New Documents: French Police Sent 13,000 To Die In Auschwitz

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    More than 13,000 people have been deported 70 years ago.Paris – The French toddler was the youngest of about 13,000 people rounded up in the infamous Vel d’Hiv incident and sent by rail to the concentration camp.

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    The details are recorded on papers being disclosed by French police to mark the 70th anniversary of the tragedy this month. Another Vel d’Hiv file has an officer stating: ‘Many refused to open [their doors]’, adding: ‘We must make use of a locksmith.’

    The facts about French involvement in the Holocaust have been released as France comes to terms with what it called its ‘black hours’.

    Catherine Vieu-Charier, organiser of the Paris exhibition displaying the papers, said there was a ‘long period of silence’ around the atrocity but French involvement in the Holocaust was being acknowledged.

    The Vel d’Hiv round-up took place at a velodrome in Paris on July 16 and 17, 1942.

    A total of 5,802 women, 4,115 children and 3,118 men were herded into the building before being sent to Germany.

    Full story at Metro UK


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    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    11 years ago

    The French did not know what humanity meant!!

    FmrBklynKid
    FmrBklynKid
    11 years ago

    What a surprise. I always thought the French were such great lovers and friends of Jews. (not).

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    11 years ago

    Two uncles and my brother went from Drancy to Auschwitz

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    11 years ago

    SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Alois Brunner an Austrian was instrumental in the deportation of French Jews , Jews in Thessalonika. He was unsuccessful hunted by the Mossad

    11 years ago

    Boycott French products to honor the memory of these Kedoshim!

    11 years ago

    The French are farbisen individuals. When Paris was liberated in 1944, by U.S. troops, Charles DeGaulle insisted on being given the kovod of marching at the front of the line of the parade showing the liberating units. Such is politics!

    vinfan
    vinfan
    11 years ago

    die is the wrong word…please use the words viciously murdered when referring to victims of the holocaust

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    11 years ago

    “The details are recorded on papers being disclosed by French police to mark the 70th anniversary of the tragedy this month.”

    A “tragedy” is a play or an opera. By extension, a “tragedy” is when a child dies in some horrid way. The police sending thousands to their deaths is an “outrage,” a “shame,” or perhaps an “atrocity.”

    not_suprised
    not_suprised
    11 years ago

    Hey Frogs, if it wasn’t for us Americans, you would be speaking German and eating shnitzengrueben.

    bagelmacher
    bagelmacher
    11 years ago

    On this the 70th yortsayt of our French brothers & sisters..Zoln mir zay keinmolnisht fargesn un keinmolnisht fargebn di merder fun undzer folk.Am yisroel chai!

    takeittothem
    takeittothem
    11 years ago

    actually 75,000 were deported from Drancy.
    see Serge Klarsfeld’s “75,000 people deported from Drancy – 1942 – 1944.

    may their souls have rest

    Avreich1
    Avreich1
    11 years ago

    When I was 12 years old my father took me on a trip to Paris. One of the first places we visited was the Holocaust Museum (it had a different name in those days which I do not remember).

    This was my very first exposure to the horrors of the Shoah in general and the fate of France’s Jews in particular. The next evening my father took me to meet his cousins, who (B”H) had survived the concentration camps and who had returned to their old apartment in Paris. That was probably the most harrowing experience in my young life.

    That couple have long since moved on to their places in heaven, but I still maintain regular contact with my cousins’ children, grandchildren and their great-grandchildren.

    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    11 years ago

    There must be a special place in hell for those Frenchmen who were complicit in the murder of Jews.

    5TResident
    Noble Member
    5TResident
    11 years ago

    The French have always had a weak backbone when it comes to standing up to evil. It is no coincidence that militant Islam has a strong foothold in France.

    soxfan
    soxfan
    11 years ago

    This is why the State of Israel must be preserved at all costs. Whether you are a “Zionist” or not – there will be no country in the world which can guarantee your safety when the going gets rough.