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<\/a>Memorial to the round-up of the Velodrome d’Hiver, Paris [Author: Leonieke Aalders, Creative commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, 16-17 July 1942, German troops aided by French police arrested 13,000 Parisian Jews\u00a0that were without French citizenship and imprisoned them in the V\u00e9lodrome d’Hiver, the famous Paris cycling stadium near the Eiffel Tower. [‘Bicycle’ translates to ‘v\u00e9lo<\/em>‘ in French.]<\/p>\n The event became known as la rafle du Vel d’Hiv<\/em>, i.e. the round-up of the V\u00e9lodrome d’Hiver, and was one of the most striking events to occur during the German occupation of Paris.<\/p>\n The detainees, including 4,000 children, were confined without adequate sanitation or sufficient food or water. Appeals to Pierre Laval<\/a> fell on deaf ears. ‘They all must go,’ he declared.<\/p>\n The V\u00e9lodrome d’Hiver served as a staging area. The majority of the prisoners were sent on to the concentration camp at Drancy<\/a> and then to Auschwitz and other extermination camps in Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week in the war, 16-17 July 1942, German troops aided by French police arrested 13,000 Parisian Jews\u00a0that were without French citizenship and imprisoned them in the V\u00e9lodrome d’Hiver, the famous Paris cycling stadium near the Eiffel Tower. [‘Bicycle’ translates … Continue reading