The Shoah (1939–1945)
Green card roundup
14 mai 1941·Paris (billet vert)
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Foreign Jews summoned by a green card are arrested in Paris and interned in Loiret.
In the spring, thousands of foreign Jews in Paris, mostly Polish and Czech, receive a printed summons on a green card asking them to appear "for a status review." Those who show up, sometimes accompanied by a son who has come to carry the suitcase, are arrested on the spot by the French police and taken that same day to the camps of the Loiret. This is the first large-scale roundup carried out in Paris, and the first time that the French administration lends its agents and its files to a mass arrest. The men of the green card will make up the bulk of the first convoys to leave France for Upper Silesia.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.