Visite guidée de l'exposition Images de la rafle du « billet vert »

Mémorial de la Shoah

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 arrive at the photo library department with five photographic contact sheets mounted on large cardboard sheets. Among these photographs, only seven are already known to specialists on the subject and have been published. They are marked with a cross on the original sheets. The others are previously unpublished. This is the complete reportage. An exceptional set of 98 images comes back to light, 80 years after the events. This reportage documents the first mass arrest of Jews in France, the rafle of 14 May 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 fell victim to German censorship, condemning these historic photographs to over 80 years of oblivion. Book

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