The Vél d’Hiv Raid: The French Police at the Service of the Gestapo

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION By Maurice RajsfusTranslated by Levi LaubForeword by Michel Warschawski 2017. Hardcover and Paperback. 112 pages. Ebook also available.$18.95 | 9780997818451 (hc)$14.95 | 9780997818468 (pb) 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 their own initiative, without