Marseille roundup

Marseille roundup
	Deportation of Jews during the Marseille roundup
Native name	Rafle de Marseille
English name	Marseille roundup
Date	January 22–24, 1943
Location	Marseille
Also known as	Rafle du Vieux-Port
Organised by	Nazi Germany; Vichy France
Participants	30,000 German Gestapo and French Police
Outcome	1,642 deported
Displaced	20,000
Arrests	6,000

The Marseille roundup was the systematic deportation of the Jews of Marseille in the Old Port between 22 and 24 January 1943 under the Vichy regime during the German occupation of France. Assisted by the French police, directed by René Bousquet, the Germans organized a raid to arrest Jews. The police checked the identity documents of 40,000 people, and the operation sent 2,000 Jews first to Fréjus, then to the camp of Royallieu near Compiègne, in the Northern Zone of France, and then to Drancy internment camp, last stop before the extermination camps. The operation also encompassed the expulsion of an entire neighborhood (30,000 persons) before its destruction. Located in the Old Port, the 1st arrondissement was considered by the Germans to be a "terrorist nest" because of its small, windy and curvy streets^[3] For this occasion, SS leader Carl Oberg, in charge of the German Police in France, made the trip from Paris, and transmitted to Bousquet orders directly received from Himmler. It is a notable case of the French police's collaboration with the German occupiers.

^ ^a ^b Oppetit, C.; Vidal-Naquet, P. (1993). Marseille, Vichy et les Nazis: le temps des rafles, la déportation des juifs (in French). Amicale des déportés d'Auschwitz et des camps de Haute-Silésie, Section Marseille-Provence. ISBN 978-2-85744-657-6.
^ ^a ^b "Rafle à Marseille en 1943 : un quartier rasé et le petit rire de Pétain". France Culture (in French). 2019-06-06.
^ Maurice Rajsfus, 1995, La Police de Vichy. Les forces de l’ordre françaises au service de la Gestapo, Le Cherche Midi éditeur, 1995, p.210

[Oppetit_Vidal-Naquet_1993_p.126-1] Oppetit, C.; Vidal-Naquet, P. (1993). Marseille, Vichy et les Nazis: le temps des rafles, la déportation des juifs (in French). Amicale des déportés d'Auschwitz et des camps de Haute-Silésie, Section Marseille-Provence. ISBN 978-2-85744-657-6.

[France_Culture_2019-2] "Rafle à Marseille en 1943 : un quartier rasé et le petit rire de Pétain". France Culture (in French). 2019-06-06.

[3] Maurice Rajsfus, 1995, La Police de Vichy. Les forces de l’ordre françaises au service de la Gestapo, Le Cherche Midi éditeur, 1995, p.210

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