What Is The Ve 'Lodrome D' Hiver Roundup?

Ve’lodrome d’Hiver also known as “The Roundup”, was a raid and a mass arrest of people who where of Jewish background, in Paris by the French police directed by German Nazi authorities.It had involved nearly a third of the 42,000 Jews departed to the death camps in Poland in 1942. As many victims up to 13,152 were arrested, including more than 4,000 children.
The Roundup mainly included victims from Paris and its suburbs. The nightmare had taken slightly over two days. It all occurred on July 16, 1942. The name was derived from the “Nickname” Ve’lodrome d’Hiver which means a bicycle and also a stadium where most of the Jews were temporarily confined. The Ve’lodrome d’Hiver Roundup was one of the many attempts aimed at reducing the Jewish
The Germans shipped the Jews by trains and buses to Auschwitz, also other concentration camps. Within a week the number of Jews held in the Vel’ d’Hiv had reached more than 13,000. (Gilbert,2011) Among those detained were Jews Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia.
Cecile Winderman Kaufer was one of the innocent people to have lived through and survived to have her story told. The Huffington Post Magazine had an interview with the eighty two year old french Holocaust survivor. Cecile author of “ Goodbye For Always: The triumph of the Innocents”, had the chance to tell her stories the way she saw them unfold. Miss Widerman and her younger sister escaped from paris stadium and subsequently went into hiding in Normandy, France. Cecile was one of
She wrote a series of increasingly despairing letters to her sister Nana. She asked her to look after her children, Jacques and Raymond. One of her letters had said word for word “ I beg you, Nana to accept them, Jacques can look after himself. They won't bother you.” Another she had written had read “ Dear Nana, go to my flat and take everything. I give it all to you. There is some money and Jewels, keep them. I beg you, have pity on my children i think this is my last