Only photo of the Vél'd'Hiv roundup: July 16, 1942, Jews getting off the buses. They will be parked for several days before being deported, most of them to Auschwitz. BHVP/ROGER-VIOLLET
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As the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz approaches, researcher Laurent Joly tells in his new work how the history of this dark period has been constructed since 1945.
In “The Knowledge of the Victims”, a fascinating investigation, full of unpublished archives, Laurent Joly retraces the story of all these survivors, who became amateur historians, who were the first to shatter the Epinal image of a Marshal Pétain “savior” of Jews and outraged by the raids.
Why write a history of the history of Vichy and the Jews today?
Laurent Joly Of the approximately 74,000 Jews deported by the Nazis with the complicity of Vichy, only 4,000 returned in 1945. There are not many alive, and they (I should say them because to my knowledge there are no has more than women) are only a handful who can still testify, in schools, in the media. Soon there will be no one left, the…
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