Native name | Rafle du billet vert |
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English name | Green ticket roundup |
Date | 14 May 1941 |
Location | Paris |
Target | Foreign jews living in France |
Organised by | Nazi Germany, Vichy France |
Participants | French Police and Gendarmerie |
Arrests | 3,747[1] |
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The Holocaust |
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The green ticket roundup (French: rafle du billet vert ), also known as the green card roundup,[a] took place on 14 May 1941 during the Nazi occupation of France. The mass arrest started a day after French Police delivered a green card (billet vert) to 6694 foreign Jews living in Paris, instructing them to report for a "status check".[1]
Over half reported as instructed, most of them Polish and Czech. They were arrested and deported to one of two transit camps in France. Most of them were interned for a year before getting deported to Auschwitz and killed. The Green ticket roundup was the first mass arrest of Jews by the Vichy Regime during World War Two; it was followed just over a year later by the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup when over 13,000 Jews were deported and murdered.[b]
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