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.
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.
The French did not know what humanity meant!!
What a surprise. I always thought the French were such great lovers and friends of Jews. (not).
Two uncles and my brother went from Drancy to Auschwitz
My father and my uncle were sent away from Drancy,never to return
SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Alois Brunner an Austrian was instrumental in the deportation of French Jews , Jews in Thessalonika. He was unsuccessful hunted by the Mossad
Boycott French products to honor the memory of these Kedoshim!
What purpose is served by boycotting French products 65 years after these alleged deportations happened. It does zero to “honor the memory of these kedoshim”. Perhaps go learn a daf gemorah or give a few Euros to tzedakah. That would be a much greater kovod to their memory than foregoing a bottle of Bourdeaux.
Be careful what you boycott. Most French perfumes are made by a Jewish-owned licensee firm, as are plenty of other fashion products. Even the anti-Semite Coco Chanel YMS had her designs marketed by a Jewish firm when she was alive. All French kosher products give badly needed parnosso to Yidden even if they are just special runs made in kashered goyishe factories. Even L’Oreal, despite its shady past, has large operations in EY that employ Jews.
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!
die is the wrong word…please use the words viciously murdered when referring to victims of the holocaust
“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.”
Hey Frogs, if it wasn’t for us Americans, you would be speaking German and eating shnitzengrueben.
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!
actually 75,000 were deported from Drancy.
see Serge Klarsfeld’s “75,000 people deported from Drancy – 1942 – 1944.
may their souls have rest
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.
There must be a special place in hell for those Frenchmen who were complicit in the murder of Jews.
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.
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.