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Discover the new exhibition Images of the “Green Ticket” Roundup at the Mémorial de la Shoah.
An exceptional discovery for history. Mémorial de la Shoah, September 2020. Two collectors came to the photo library department with five photographic contact sheets mounted on large sheets of cardboard. Among these photographs, only seven were already known to specialists in the subject and had been published. They are marked with a cross on the original sheets. The others had never been seen before. This is the complete photo report. An exceptional set of 98 images has come back to light, 80 years after the events. This report documents the first mass arrest of Jews in France, the roundup of May 14, 1941, known as the “green ticket” roundup, ordered by the Occupying forces and organized by the French authorities. Today, an exhibition and a book invite the public to take part in the investigation that made it possible to recover the identity of the photographer, Harry Croner, and to understand his “view” of these tragic events, a view that was suppressed by German censorship, condemning these historic photographs to more than 80 years of oblivion. Book
Source: paris.fr — photo: ©D.R