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Discover the Mémorial de la Shoah’s new exhibition, Images of the “Green Ticket” Roundup.
An exceptional historical discovery. Mémorial de la Shoah, September 2020. Two collectors came to the photo archive department with five photographic contact sheets mounted on large sheets of cardboard. Of these photographs, only seven were already known to specialists in the field and had been published. They are marked with a cross on the original sheets. The others had never been seen before. Together, they form the complete photo report. This exceptional collection of 98 images has resurfaced 80 years after the events. The 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 identified the photographer, Harry Croner, and to understand his “perspective” on these tragic events—a perspective suppressed by German censorship, consigning these historic photographs to obscurity for more than 80 years. Book now
Source: paris.fr — photo: ©Yonathan Kellerman