Created by Tom Horn on 15 Jul 2010, Last Update on 15 Jul 2010

Vel' d'Hiv Roundup - 16 Jul 1942

3,152 French jews are rounded up and detained at the Winter Velodrome and nearby Drancy internment camp by the Vichy regime. They are subsequently transported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few survive the war.

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Tags : France,Attrocity,Holocaust,Europe

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