Beginning within the early morning hours of July sixteen, 1942, and lasting for 2 days, the French police went past Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison greater than 13,000 Jews at a Paris carrying area, the Vélodrome d'Hiver. for many of the Jews, this detention with no water, nutrients, or sleep was once the 1st terrible step towards dying within the focus camps. This uniquely particular learn of the roundup bargains the one modern research of either the precursors and the aftermath of the occasions of these days. utilizing lately opened police documents, Maurice Rajsfus info the inner association of the police, displaying the mechanisms of this raid particularly and of raids ordinarily, making the booklet an imperative micro-history of the Holocaust. A better half piece to Rajsfus's Operation Yellow celebrity / Black Thursday (DoppelHouse Press, 2017), The Vél d'Hiv Raid includes witness and police stories, surprising excerpts from the collaborationist press, and speeches via modern French politicians whose legitimate apology remains to be now not whole and extraordinarily overdue.

With a foreword by way of Israeli activist and writer Michel Warschawski.

Maurice Rajsfus (b. 1928), a former investigative journalist for Le Monde, survived the Vél d'Hiv roundup. He has written thirty books, together with many analyzing the Vichy regime and its legacy in French police tradition. a number of of his books approximately his global warfare II reports are the foundation of a YA comedian released through Tartamudo variants, in addition to a theatrical creation and a movie. He lives in Paris together with his family.