The Vel D’Hiv roundup was a mass arrest of Jews in France during 1942-1945. Over 11,000 Jews were arrested on the same day. The Jews were taking to a winter stadium called the Velodrome D’Hiver (Vashem). It all started by the French administration being replaced from Jewish to German. On July 16, 1942 4,500 French police began the mass arrest of Jews. Jews from France, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia were arrested. The detained were taken to the Winter Stadium called the Velodrome D’Hiver. They were kept in terrible conditions with no food, water or sanitary facilities. After all the arrest S ome Jews were deported to the concentration camps of Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande and Auschwitz. Most of the people deported were sent to Auschwitz and murdered. Every two or three days about 1,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz. By the end of September 1942 near 38,000 Jews had been sent to Auschwitz from France (Vashem). The reactions of the French people varied between their work with the Germans and the heartache they felt towards the detained Jews. The French police who had been chosen to do the arrest work with the German authorities. There were only a few people who had chosen not to work with the authorities. They chose to help the captured …show more content…
Cecile Widerman Kaufer was one of the survivors of the Vel D’Hiv. Kaufer and her younger sister escaped the Stadium and went into hiding in Normandy, France. Cecile Was only eleven years old when the French invaded France. When they were arrested they were crammed into trucks and driven to the winter stadium. They spent several days without food or water. No one knew what was going on. Days later Cecile’s mother was sent to the hospital because she was ill from tuberculosis. Guard’ s let Cecile and her little sister go with her mother. That was the last time they saw their father and older sister
Throughout the book “Au Revoir Les Enfants” Louis Malle highlights at several points the typical associations which the majority of people have when discussing the role of the Germans during the war. However Malle approaches the topic from a more complex angle thus forcing the reader to question the general stereotypes and examine the varying attitudes of both the French and Germans, by portraying them in certain situations in which they adopt a sometimes unexpected attitude.
The French originally built these camps to receive Spanish refugees. (“Nazi Transit Camps: Drancy”). The camps were built for about 700 to stay, but approximately 7,000 people were held there, they were again faced with poor conditions. Of the 7,000 people there 3,000 died and the 4,000 remaining were shipped off to Auschwitz where they were sent to be killed. (“Nazi Transit Camps: Drancy”) Upon arriving at Drancy the Jews were subject to violent searches, and their heads were shaved. Everyone that went through the camps were all eventually sent to Auschwitz and murdered, there was approximately 1,000 people every 2/3 days murdered at Auschwitz. (“The
On July 16, 1942 more than 12,000 Jews were taken from their homes and sent to death camps. The original German directive thought the deportation of the Jews should include French citizens and foreign residents. Renè Bousquet thought it would be less embarrassing if the only targeted the foreigners. The Germans accepted this but children should be included to avoid public scenes of taking children from their parents, also to avoid the financial responsibility
In 1940 Auschwitz was established in the suburbs of Oswiecim. Oswiecim is a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Auschwitz was established because there were too many Polish people in the local prisons. In 1942 Auschwitz became a death camp and it was the largest known. (http://auschwitz.org/, n.d.) The camp was expanded throughout its existence, this resulted in Auschwitz consisting of three camps. The three camps were Main Camp, Birkenau, and Monowitz. Main Camp was known as Auschwitz I, Birkenau was known as Auschwitz II, and Monowitz was known as Auschwitz III. (Preisler, n.d.) Auschwitz was liberated in 1945. “Historians and analysts estimate the number of people murdered at Auschwitz somewhere between 2.1 million
The Holocaust had many injustices throughout this time. One of those injustice acts was the cruel Holocaust Death Camps which occurred from 1941 to 1945 a total of 4 years. “The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec, near Lublin, on March
To be technical the holocaust began in January 1933 and ended 1945. Concentration camps were first built in March for millions of Jews. Concentration camps were purposely made to have wear out the people who were taken there. According to Wikipedia, “It is estimated that Germans established 15,000 camps and subcamps in occupied
Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and
This work argued that there was an excess of writing on Vichy that distracted from the complicated relationship of the regime with Germany, the French government, its people, and refugees. Conan and Rousso also contend that an undecided position between French guilt or innocence on their involvement cripples French identity in an increasingly globalized world. Lastly, they argue that there is a distinct point, the release of The Sorrow and the Pity, which shifted the dialogue on French culpability in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their examination is one of social, cultural, and psychological history of France and the damage caused by the small schisms nitpicking has created amongst the French community because there is very little disagreement on most aspects of subjects like the Vichy government, the French Resistance, and the Germans actions. The results of their analysis questioned the value of the “duty to remember” arguments of many scholars who have written on Vichy, particularly during high profile trials. Unlike many sources on this topic, this source is unique in its addressing of the repression of Vichy Syndrome from 1954 to 1971 due to amnesty laws. Additionally, they address the heightened awareness to World War II France from emotional films that have inaccuracies and discuss the effects of these on French identity and memory of France in the 1940s as well. With Vichy Syndrome treated as an obsession, it is no surprise that countless articles and books continue to be written on the topic, but as Conan and Rousso pointed out, it has become increasingly more difficult to keep these sources
This took place during the war against Germany and the U.S the war had been going on for months and the U.S had been pushing up on the Germany's alliances. There were alot of jew family's hiding they didn't want to get capture and be taking into concentration camp and have to suffer and be killed. On
In order to rend a solution for the "Judenfrage" (issue of the Jews) first deportations to concentration camps took place in October 1939.
Jews were taken there by train, and upon arrival they were forced to give up their possessions. They were then herded in to gas chambers, or "showers" as the Nazis called them to avoid panic, where poisonous gas was released until everyone had died.
Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) brings a lot of cruel thoughts to an individual’s mind because of the amount of misconceptions about this disease. An example of this would be that there are a lot of people that will say you shouldn’t share a drink with someone who has HIV or AIDS because of the risk of contracting the virus, which is untrue. A person will not contract the virus from sharing a drink, or utensil or even from kissing. Another common misconception is that sharing a razor can also transmit HIV or AIDS. For hygienic purposes sharing a razor is not a good idea in the first place but you cannot contract HIV from doing so. With this being said there are
HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. A member of a group of viruses called retroviruses, HIV infects human cells and uses the energy and nutrients provided by those cells to grow and reproduce. AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a disease in which the body's immune system breaks down and is unable to fight off certain infections, known as "opportunistic infections," and other illnesses that take advantage of a weakened immune system. When a person is infected with HIV, the virus enters the body and lives and multiplies primarily in the white blood cells. These are the immune cells that normally protect us from disease.
Since no one knows who has the disease, without extensive testing, everyone seems suspected of having the disease until proven differently because of how people had felt about the disease. To me, this is ridiculous, but one can understand the reasoning behind it, but now that I know how what when I may or others can contact the disease. It is best to be safe than sorry. African
HIV, or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus which damages and kills cells of the immune system. It attacks the T-cells, key cells of the immune system, and uses them to make copies of itself. After being infected with the virus it progressively interferes and eventually destroys the immune system's ability to fight the anti-genes. HIV may develop into the syndrome AIDS, the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. HIV is an STD - a sexually transmitted disease - and therefore most commonly it is spread through sexual contact, and the virus mainly enters the body through the penis, mouth, lining of the vagina or vulva during sexual activity. HIV can also be spread through sharing syringes or needles with someone who is infected with the