The Vél d'Hiv raid : the French police at the service of the Gestapo
- Title
- The Vél d'Hiv raid : the French police at the service of the Gestapo / Maurice Rajsfus ; translated by Levi Laub ; foreword by Michel Warschawski.
- Published by
- Los Angeles : DoppelHouse Press, [2017]
- ©2017
- Author
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- Description
- xiv, 146 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "Beginning in the early morning hours of July 16, 1942, and lasting for two days, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison more than 13,000 Jews at a Paris sporting arena, the Vélodrome d'Hiver. For most of the Jews, this detention without water, food, or sleep was the first horrific step toward death in the concentration camps. This uniquely detailed study of the roundup offers the only contemporary analysis of both the precursors and the aftermath of the events of those two days. Using recently opened police files, Maurice Rajsfus details the internal organization of the police, showing the mechanisms of this raid in particular and of raids in general, making the book an indispensable micro-history of the Holocaust. A companion piece to Rajsfus's Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday (DoppelHouse Press, 2017), The Vél d'Hiv Raid includes witness and police reports, shocking excerpts from the collaborationist press, and speeches by contemporary French politicians whose official apology is still not complete and terribly overdue."--Amazon.com.
- Uniform title
- Rafle du Vel d'Hiv. English
- Alternative title
- Rafle du Vel d'Hiv.
- Subject
- Police
- France
- Jews > Persecutions
- Police > France > Paris
- German Occupation of France (1940-1945)
- France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945
- History
- Jews > France > History > 20th century
- Vélodrome d'hiver (Paris, France)
- Jews > Persecutions > France > Paris
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1900-1999
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- France > Paris
- World War, 1939-1945 > France
- Paris (France) > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Call number
- JFC 19-68
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Originally published in France by Presses Universitaires de France in 2002.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Author
- Rajsfus, Maurice, 1928-2020. author.
- Title
- The Vél d'Hiv raid : the French police at the service of the Gestapo / Maurice Rajsfus ; translated by Levi Laub ; foreword by Michel Warschawski.
- Publisher
- Los Angeles : DoppelHouse Press, [2017]
- Copyright date
- ©2017
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local note
- AN AP PLUS! BOOK. TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH.
- Chronological term
- 1900-1999
- Added author
- Laub, Levi, 1938- translator.
- Warschawski, Michel, writer of foreword.
- Other standard identifier
- 9780997818451
- 99974071793
- ISBN
- 9780997818451 (hardcover)
- 099781845X (hardcover)
- 9780997818468 (paperback)
- 0997818468 (paperback)
- Research call number
- JFC 19-68