France Marks Vel d'Hiv Roundup as Rescuer Memorial Vandalized in Paris

The Vel d'Hiv roundup resulted in the arrest and deportation of approximately 13,000 Jews, mostly women and children, to concentration camps.

Each July, France returns to the wound of the Vel d'Hiv roundup — the two days in 1942 when French police, under Nazi occupation, arrested some 13,000 Jews, mostly women and children, and sent them toward death. This year's commemoration arrived shadowed by the deliberate defacement of a Paris plaque honoring those who had risked their lives to rescue Jews, a act that transformed a day of mourning into a mirror held up to the present. The vandalism did not stand apart from history; it extended it, asking whether the courage of rescuers is still considered worth remembering — and by whom.

France Marks Vel d'Hiv Roundup as Rescuer Memorial Vandalized in Paris

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