Operation Yellow Star | Black Thursday, The Roundup of July 16, 1942

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION Two books by Maurice Rajsfus Translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Mike Mitchell 2017. Hardcover and Paperback. 296 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Ebook also available.$29.95 (hc) | 9780997818406$19.95 (pb) | 9780997003499 In a timely release, three companion books, Operation Yellow Star and Black Thursday (June 27, 2017) and The Vél d’Hiv Raid (September 5, 2017) bring to light one of the most traumatic events in French history during the 20th century. Written by Maurice Rajsfus, a Jewish survivor who became an investigative journalist for Le Monde and a controversial outspoken critic of the French Police, the three books offer detailed archival research and a first-hand witness account of the infamous roundup in France on July 16, 1942, in which over 13,000 immigrant Jews were arrested and detained for three days in squalid conditions at the Paris sporting stadium, the Vélodrome d’Hiver. The Vél d’Hiv Raid, as it is now known, was conducted by the French Police on