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The Vélodrome d'Hiver roundup, often referred to as the "Vél'd'Hiv roundup" or the "Vel' d'Hiv roundup" or the "Vél d'Hiv roundup", was the largest mass arrest of Jews in France during the Second World War. was the largest mass arrest of Jews in France during the Second World War. Between July 16 and 17, 1942, over 13,000 people, nearly a third of them children, were arrested in Paris and its suburbs for deportation: fewer than a hundred would return. Carried out at the request of the Third Reich - which, as part of its policy to exterminate the Jewish populations of Europe9 , organized a large-scale round-up of Jews in several European countries in July 1942, known as "Operation Spring Wind" -, These arrests were carried out with the collaboration of 7,000 French police and gendarmes, assisted by 30012 to 400 militants from Jacques Doriot's Parti populaire français, on the orders of the Vichy government, following negotiations with the occupying forces led by René Bousquet, General Secretary of the National Police. Following these negotiations, initiated by Pierre Laval, Jews of French nationality were temporarily excluded from the roundup, which mainly concerned foreign and stateless Jews who had taken refuge in France, including over four thousand children, many of them French, born of foreign parents. source Wikipedia.

The Vélodrome d'Hiver roundup, often referred to as the Vél'd'Hiv roundup or the Vel' d'Hiv roundup or the Vél d'Hiv roundup, was the largest mass arrest of Jews in France during the Second World War. was the largest mass arrest of Jews in France during the Second World War. Between July 16 and 17, 1942, over 13,000 people, nearly a third of them children, were arrested in Paris and its suburbs for deportation: fewer than a hundred would return. Carried out at the request of the Third Reich - which, as part of its policy to exterminate the Jewish populations of Europe9 , organized a large-scale round-up of Jews in several European countries in July 1942, known as Operation Spring Wind -, These arrests were carried out with the collaboration of 7,000 French police and gendarmes, assisted by 30012 to 400 militants from Jacques Doriot's Parti populaire français, on the orders of the Vichy government, following negotiations with the occupying forces led by René Bousquet, General Secretary of the National Police. Following these negotiations, initiated by Pierre Laval, Jews of French nationality were temporarily excluded from the roundup, which mainly concerned foreign and stateless Jews who had taken refuge in France, including over four thousand children, many of them French, born of foreign parents. source Wikipedia.