Green ticket roundup

Green ticket roundup
The roundup taking place on 14 May 1941
Native name Rafle du billet vert
English nameGreen ticket roundup
Date14 May 1941
LocationParis
TargetForeign jews living in France
Organised byNazi Germany, Vichy France
ParticipantsFrench Police and Gendarmerie
Arrests3,747[1]

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. The mass arrest started a day after French Police delivered a green card (billet vert) to 6694 foreign Jews living in Paris, instructing them to report for a "status check".[1]

Over half reported as instructed, most of them Polish and Czech. They were arrested and deported to one of two transit camps in France. Most of them were interned for a year before getting deported to Auschwitz and killed. The Green ticket roundup was the first mass arrest of Jews by the Vichy Regime during World War Two; it was followed just over a year later by the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup when over 13,000 Jews were deported and murdered.[b]

  1. ^ a b c d Laub 2010, p. 217.
  2. ^ Cercleshoah 2011.
  3. ^ Tillier 2011, p. 53.
  4. ^ Wieviorka 1999, p. 36.
  5. ^ a b c Marrus & Paxton 2019, p. 274.
  6. ^ Zuccotti 1999, p. 312.


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