Newly Discovered Photos Document Overlooked Holocaust Roundup in Paris
Recently uncovered photographs reveal a previously unknown roundup of foreign Jews in Paris on May 14, 1941. These images offer a detailed, almost minute-by-minute account of an event considered a precursor to the infamous Vel' d'Hiv roundup.
Franรงois Picard is pleased to welcome Dr. Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester, Chief Editor of 'La Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah' and one of the curators of the Shoah Memorial in Paris photography exhibit highlighting the discovery of 98 previously unknown photographs documenting the May 14, 1941 roundup of foreign Jews in Paris. It represents one of the most significant visual revelations in Holocaust historiography in recent years, the image...