Syndrome D Hiver Roundup Research Paper

The Ve’lodrome d’Hiver Roundup refers to the period of time when French police (Nazi directed) rounded up 11,000 people with a Jewish background, and put them in a winter, and bike stadium , called Ve’lodrome d’Hiv. Within one week the number of Jewish people stored there went from 11,000 to 13,000, 4,000 of them being children. The people being held were left extremely crowded, with almost no food, water, or sanitary rooms. The Jews were actually warned months before the arrests, but since most arrests usually targeted Jewish men, the women and children did not go into hiding. Children between the ages of 2 and 16 were arrested with their mothers. The week following these arrests the Jews were taken to concentration camps and were killed in horrific ways. Many of them ended up being sent to Auschwitz, one of the most well-known death camps. Others were sent to the camps Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande, and their heads were shaved and they were being tested for many things, many died in extremely gruesome ways. By

She was 11 years old when the Nazis invaded France. She had two sisters. On July 12, soldiers banged heavily on their door, pointed guns at their heads, and forced them to leave immediately. She and her family walked for miles to where Jews were being packed on trucks. She was packed on and sent to a little arena with no food or water for several days, and the smell was horrific. Their father convinced a French guard to let their whole family stay together because their mother was ill from tuberculosis. Days later, her and her younger sister convinced French guard to let them go to the hospital with their mother. That was the last time they ever saw their father and older sister. At the hospital they convinced another guard to let them go outside, where their grandparents picked them up and put them into hiding for years, sometimes going for days without food.