Mass rally of Légion des Volontaires Français [Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism] in Paris. Crowds outside the Vélodrôme d'Hiver. A group of women enter the building. Prominent attendees include Ambassador de Brinon, Colonel Edgar Puaud and Capitaine Jean Bassompierre. Overhead shot of the crowded stadium. Banners read "Il faut des actes de soldat" and "Le combat seul conduit à la vie." ...

French fascist Jacques Doriot addresses "Legion of French Volunteers" in Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris. Huge audience inside velodrome including German officers and CU of Vichy officers. MS officer at podium giving Nazi salute. Doriot speaking in French at podium in profile. Talks of difficult combat of winter of 1941 and 1942. MS German officers in front row. People in crowd give fascist salute. Additional ...

Describes Cecile Kaufer’s (Paris, France, b. circa 1932) childhood in Paris, France; the German occupation of France and the consequent fates of her family including their stay in the Vélodrome d'hiver in Paris and their hiding in Normandy; the liberation of France and their immigration to and life in the United States.

Meeting of Milice at the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris, 1944. WS, Palais de Sports. Crowd, banners, placards, including: "Gardes Patriotique de la Sauf" ; "Garde Patriotique Salmson" HAS, INT stadium, crowd seated. Louis Saillon (sp?) speaking. Slow pan, spectators. CUs, signs: "Garde Patriotique section de St. Denis" ; "Garde Patriotique Cinema Francaise...Servir" ; "Presse" ; "Garde Patriotiques du ...

The Simon Drucker memoir consist of a single typed page relating Drucker’s arrest during the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup; his internment, escape, and re-internment in nearly a dozen prisons and concentration camps in France, Poland, and Germany; liberation; fighting in the first Arab-Israeli war; and beginning his life again in Paris.

Drawing created by Henri Bomblat, circa 2000, in memory of his sisters, Sarah and Rosette, who were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts a crematorium with smokestacks with portraits of 2 young women. Above is a large closed eye inscribed with excerpts from the Kaddish. Sarah, age 22, was arrested in Paris on July 16, 1942, and deported to Auschwitz on September 23, 1942, where she was ...

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Mystical oil painting created by Louise Abouaf Starr in 2003 to commemorate March 27, 1942, the day she witnessed the first deportation of Jewish prisoners from Drancy via train from Paris. The colorful painting features train cars loaded with prisoners surrounded by symbolic images of angels, animals, and the Torah. On March 27, Louise, age 23, and her mother went to the station looking for her father ...