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

Discover the new exhibition "Images de la rafle du « billet vert  »" at the Mémorial de la Shoah.

An exceptional discovery for History at the Mémorial de la Shoah, September 2020. Two collectors presented themselves to the photo library service with five photographic contact sheets mounted on large cardboard sheets.

Among these photographs, only seven were already known to specialists on the subject and had been published. They are marked with a cross on the original sheets. The others are unpublished. This is the complete reportage.

An exceptional collection of 98 images comes to light, 80 years after the events.

This reportage documents the first massive arrest of Jews in France, the round-up of May 14, 1941, known as the “billet vert” (green ticket) round-up, ordered by the Occupying power and organised by the French authorities.

Today, an exhibition and a book invite the public to participate in the investigation that led to the discovery of the photographer's identity, Harry Croner, and to understand his “gaze” on these tragic events, a gaze on which German censorship fell, condemning these historical photographs to oblivion for over 80 years.

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