Thursday, 19 July 2012

The Vel d'Hiv Raid' Exhibition Open

A new exhibition in Paris in the City Hall of the third arrondissement opened on the 16th of July to mark the 70th anniversary of the largest roundup of foreign Jews in France in World War Two. 8,160 Jews, 4,000 children were held in the cyling stadium in terrible sanitory conditions before being transported to Auschwitz. None of the children survived. The archives clearly show the French Vichy regimes collaboration with the Nazi's and their official anti- semitism.