Review Of Rousso's Vichy: An Ever Present Past - 927 Words
Review Of Rousso's Vichy: An Ever Present Past Review Of Rousso's Vichy: An Ever Present Past 927 Words4 Pages The Vel dâHiv Roundup occurred during the German Occupation of France from July 16th, 1942 and July 17th, 1942. Nine thousand Parisian police officers working under the Vichy regime gathered Jewish men, women, and children and locked them into the Vélodrome dâHiver, otherwise known as the Winter Stadium, before sending them to transit camps and, ultimately, Auschwitz for extermination. Of the Jewish community from Paris that were arrested a third were children. On July 1...