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Discover the new exhibition Images de la rafle du « billet vert » at the Mémorial de la Shoah.
An exceptional discovery for history. Mémorial de la Shoah, September 2020. Two collectors arrived at the photo library department with five photographic contact sheets mounted on large pieces of cardboard. Among these photographs, only seven were already known to specialists on 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 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 « billet vert » roundup, ordered by the Occupier 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 identify the photographer, Harry Croner, and to understand his “gaze” on these tragic events, a gaze that German censorship suppressed, consigning these historic photographs to more than 80 years of oblivion. Book
Source: paris.fr — photo: D.R