[Doctors during the Vel'd'Hiv Roundup on July 16 and 17, 1942]

Abstract

Seventy-five years ago, the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (commonly called in French the "Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv"), was a Nazi decreed raid and mass arrest of Jewish in Paris by the French police on 16 and 17 July 1942. During the action, 13,152 Jews including 4115 children were captured and placed in hellish conditions in the Paris Velodrome to be delivered to the Nazi killing machine. A team of doctors and nurses of the Red Cross, assisted by Jewish doctors, ensured the medical care of the internees of the Vél'd'Hiv with unusual dedication. They were able to save children by posing a false diagnosis of infectious disease.