Title
Discours du Président de la République M. Jacques Chirac, lors des Ceremonies
Commemorant la Grande Rafle des 16 et 17 Julliet 1942 (Rafle du Vel'
d'Hiv)
Date
16 July 1995
Speaker
Jacques
Chirac, President of the French Republic
Description
Vel'
d'Hiv is the abbreviation for 'Vélodrome d'Hiver' a stadium in Paris. The 16 and
17 of July 1942, 12,552 Jews were stopped by 4500 French police under Vichy. The
Jews were kept interned at Vel d'Hiv before being transferred to Pithiviers or
Beaune-la-Rolande, then towards Auschwitz for some, or other camps. The incident
is now referred to as "La Grande Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv" ('The Great Raid of the
Vel' d'Hiv') and was commemorated in this ceremony of 16 July 1995 in Paris.
Publishing
Information
Chirac, Jacques. Statement on the
Occasion of the Ceremony Commemorating the Great Raid of 16 and 17 July
1942 (The Raid of the Vel' d'Hiv). Embassy of France in the USA, <http://www.info-france-usa.org/news/statmnts/1998/wchea/vel2.asp>
in French, accessed 16 July 2002.
Source
A transcript
of this statement can be found on the website for the Embassy of France in the
USA, <http://www.info-france-usa.org/news/statmnts/1998/wchea/vel2.asp> in
French, accessed 16 July 2002.