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Jewish raid in Paris: 98 photos give victims of the Nazi era a face

EuroNews · · 1173 words · By Donogh McCabe; Maja Kunert
Historical Documentation Contemporary Antisemitism Holocaust remembrance
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22 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“an exhibition at the French Embassy in Berlin is showing 98 photographs that were lost for decades”
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The New York Times opinion piece mentions the photographer capturing images of Jews at Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande, but the specific detail about an exhibition of 98 lost photographs at the French Embassy in Berlin is not corroborated by the other provided search results, which discuss different exhibitions.
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web search NEUTRAL — The same photographer captures the imprisonment of these Jews a few days later at the French internment camps Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. Some 700 of those Jewish men were later liberated, or es…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opinion/holocaust-france-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The French Embassy in Bucharest hosted on Monday a photo exhibition featuring images captured by photojournalists from the AGERPRES National News Agency at various editions of the Olympic Games, organ…
https://www.stiripesurse.ro/photo-exhibition-at-french-embas…
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web search NEUTRAL — Thanks for a great collaboration Helena Huber-Doudova, National Gallery Prague, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Simon Schnepp & Schnepp …
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simbinko_today-we-are-opening…
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“Anyone who received the note in Paris in May 1941 was supposed to report to a gymnasium on 14 May”
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Multiple sources confirm the 'green ticket' (billet vert) roundup occurred on May 14, 1941, and involved summonses for Jews to report to the police.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 17, 2026. A black and white photo shows two police officers, one looks at the camera. A man and woman kiss in the center of the photo.Mr. Dreyfus is a Holocaust historian at the University of Manc…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opinion/holocaust-france-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Builder finds hidden note from 1941 with advice for future generations. A builder carrying out restorations to a church roof stumbled across a handwritten note dating back to 1941 giving advice to the…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/builder-finds-note-…
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web search NEUTRAL — To trade on "Highest temperature in Amsterdam on May 14?," browse the 11 available outcomes listed on this page. Each outcome displays a current price representing the market's implied probability.
https://polymarket.com/event/highest-temperature-in-amsterda…
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“It was the first major roundup of Jews in German-occupied France: the so-called Rafle du "billet vert"”
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Wikipedia and other sources explicitly state that the Rafle du 'billet vert' (green ticket roundup) was the first major roundup of Jews in occupied France.
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web search NEUTRAL — Occurring during World War II, Jews arrested during the roundup were deported to Nazi Germany and targeted for extermination as part of the Holocaust. It was one of several measures aimed at eradicati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel'_d'Hiv_roundup
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web search NEUTRAL — 1/n The green ticket roundup (French: rafle du billet vert ), also known as the green card roundup, took place on 14 May 1941 during the Nazi occupation of France. The mass arrest started a day after …
https://twitter.com/yadvashem/status/1525538946821808128
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web search NEUTRAL — The Rafle du Billet Vert was the first mass round-up of Jewish people in France, but not the only one. The Vel’ d’Hiv’ round-up occurred just over one year later, when over 13,000 Jewish people, inclu…
https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/newly-surfaced-photos-s…
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“On the orders of the SS and Gestapo, the French police arrested around 3,800 Jewish men that day”
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MUBI reports 3,747 foreign Jews were arrested by Paris police on May 14, 1941. Another source mentions around 3,700 (3,430 Polish, 157 Czech, 123 stateless).
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web search NEUTRAL — The Germans planned for the French police to arrest 22,000 Jews in Greater Paris. They would then be taken to internment camps at Drancy, Compiègne, Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. André Tulard "wil…
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Vel'_d'Hiv_Roundup
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web search NEUTRAL — Around half the men summoned decided it was best to comply with the law - 3,430 Polish, 157 Czech and 123 stateless Jewish men. The ‘stateless Jews’ had been naturalised under French law before the wa…
https://www.ww2today.com/p/41-05-14-french-police-round-up-j…
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web search NEUTRAL — On May 14, 1941, 3,747 foreign Jews were arrested by the Paris police during the roundup of the “green ticket”, the first in France. 82 years later, miracle, we find a hundred photos, taken by Harry C…
https://mubi.com/en/in/films/la-case-du-siecle-1941-les-secr…
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“They were taken to the Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande camps”
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Multiple sources confirm that those arrested in the green ticket roundup (and later the Vel' d'Hiv) were sent to Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande.
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web search NEUTRAL — They would then be taken to internment camps at Drancy, Compiègne, Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. André Tulard "will obtain from the head of the municipal police the files of Jews to be arrested.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Vel'_d'Hiv_Roundup
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web search NEUTRAL — On the 14th of May, 1941, Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 40 were called to present themselves to the Paris police. They were summoned using a green postcard, for which this wave of arrests beca…
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/france/first-arrest-wave…
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web search NEUTRAL — After a couple of days, the people kept at the Vel d'Hiv were dispatched in two camps in Loiret (Pithiviers and Beaune la Rolande). Those camps were managed by the French authorities, under the superv…
https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-16-july-1942-french-poli…
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“Around 700 managed to escape. The rest, around 3,100 men, were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in July 1942 and murdered there”
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The New York Times mentions that some 700 were liberated or escaped and about 3,000 were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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web search NEUTRAL — 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ticket_roundup
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web search NEUTRAL — He is a co-author, with Lior Lalieu, of “La Rafle du Billet Vert. 14 Mai 1941. Les Photos Retrouvées.”About 3,000 of those taken that day were later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau; of that group, just…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opinion/holocaust-france-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Many thought it was a simple formality. But upon their arrival, they were immediately arrested and sent to camps in the Loiret, around 90km south of Paris. This was the first mass arrest of Jews under…
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210514-the-green-ticket…
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“The collaborationist Vichy government had already legally authorised the arrest and internment of foreign Jews shortly after the German invasion in June 1940”
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Wikipedia and other sources confirm the Vichy government enacted anti-Jewish laws and authorized the internment of foreign Jews in October 1940.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anti-Jewish laws were enacted by the Vichy France government in 1940 and 1941 affecting metropolitan France and its overseas territories during World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_anti-Jewish_legislation
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web search NEUTRAL — 1940 (10 September): Seizure of denaturalized people’s property. 1940 (3 October): First Statut des Juifs. 1940 (4 October): Internment of foreign Jews. 1940 (27 October): Mandatory French identificat…
https://medium.com/internments-the-rivesaltes-camp-and-the-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — June 2, 1941. A second Statut des Juifs is decreed by Vichy to replace the law of October 1940. It further defines who is considered a Jew: any person with three grandparents of the "Jewish race," or …
https://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-history.org/klarsfeld/Fr…
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“an exhibition at the French Embassy in Berlin... opened on 11 May 2026”
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The provided evidence does not contain a specific confirmation of an exhibition opening on May 11, 2026, at the French Embassy; the search results for 2026 are generic event calendars or unrelated videos.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 8 to 10, 2026: Events, festivals, exhibitions and more things to do for your perfect weekend in Berlin. more. Blinded by Delight.Find the best events in Berlin today: Musicals, concerts, shows, th…
https://www.berlin.de/en/events/
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web search NEUTRAL — The exhibition focuses on artists’ ongoing explorations of brushwork and materiality. Chinese artists extend traditions of brush-and-ink practice, emphasizing calligraphic expression, rhythm, and embo…
https://www.gdmoa.org/english/Exhibition/Current/202605/t202…
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web search NEUTRAL — Хорошее качество видео без регистрации в бесплатном видеокаталоге ВКонтакте. Опубликовано 10 апреля 2026.Барроуз сериал — русскоязычный трейлер 2026.
https://vk.com/video-163306979_456250368
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“The man behind the camera was Harry Croner, a Berlin photographer who had been drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 and was himself of Jewish origin through his father”
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The MUBI source mentions photos taken by Harry Croner, who was '1/4 Jewish', which aligns with the claim of being of Jewish origin through his father, but no other independent source in the evidence provided confirms his Wehrmacht service or full biography.
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“The head of the Gestapo's "Jewish department" in Paris, SS-Hauptsturmführer Theodor Dannecker, commissioned him to document the raid”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding SS-Hauptsturmführer Theodor Dannecker commissioning Harry Croner.
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“They were rediscovered in 2020 and purchased, researched and analysed by the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris”
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“Her book La Rafle du "billet vert", co-authored with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, was published in April 2026”
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“On 10 May 2026, the Mémorial showed all 98 images to the public for the first time in Paris”
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“Croner was categorised as "unfit for military service" after 18 months due to his Jewish origins”
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“In 1944, he was interned in a labour camp on the French Channel coast, and in 1945 he was taken prisoner of war by the Americans”
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“He died in Berlin in 1992”
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“Mosjez Stoczyk... was interned in Pithiviers, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in June 1942 and murdered there”
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“The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany... was founded in 1951 by representatives of 23 international Jewish organisations”
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“Since negotiations with the German government began in 1952, more than $90 billion have been paid out in compensation”
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“In 2024 alone, the Claims Conference paid out more than $535 million to over 200,000 survivors in 83 countries”
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“it provided more than $888 million to over 300 social aid organisations worldwide”
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“The exhibition will be on display in Berlin until 9 July 2026”
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