“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
French Holocaust Records Exhibited for First Time
18.07.2012
Archives of the Prefecture of Police in Paris have been opened to the public for the first time in a new exhibition.
The archives focus on the Vel d'Hiv roundup of 16-17 July 1942, in which thousands of Jews were arrested and held in the Vélodrome d'Hiver and Drancy internment camp. The opening of the exhibition coincides with the 70th anniversary commemoration events.
The exhibition is presented by the Third District of Paris and the History and Memory Association. The archives will be on display at the City Hall of the Third District until 15 September 2012.