How Did Hitler's The Ve Lodrome D Hiver Round Up
There were many things that happened in the 1940’s, during World War 2 there were many round ups for the Jews. One of these round ups was called The Ve’lodrome d’Hiver Roundup. This was one of the first round ups Hitler started. Hitler was the dictator of Germany. Many people didn’t like the Jews for lots of different reasons. Some of these conflicts were between religions, social, economic problems. The conflicts just added up until people started doing something about the Jews. There were not many people that knew what all they were going to do to the Jews. Many thought they were just taking them to camps to work.
During this particular round up they started taking the Jews in May and June in 1942. The Nazi’s took the Jews from Germany, Austria, …show more content…
Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, and different places in France. Many people from France got took from the French Police not the Nazi’s. The Jews seen the police everywhere, most of the police and Jews were pretty good friends. Some of the police even aided the Jews in escaping or hiding them. Some families of the police officers kept the Jews hidden in their own houses when they started to realize what was happening. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup)
Hitler didn’t care what age the Jews were, he was taking all of them and getting them out of his way. He would take mothers with newborn babies, small children, even the old that would not even make it very much longer. As long as he did not have to deal with them anymore he was happy. When the Jews first started getting took the soldiers and police only took the men and boys. Women and children didn’t go into hiding for a while because they thought they would just take them males, but then they started taking everyone. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup)
When the Jews got arrested they put them all into a small bus like thing where they rode to the Vel’drome d’Hiver stadium. There wasn’t a restroom, food or water. As you can see it would get pretty nasty and terrible. They were sent to these places to wait until they got deported somewhere. There were a total of 13,000 people held at this stadium, 4,000 of them were children. It was crowded, lack of food and water many Jews died there. It was a terrible place to be at that time and the Jews had to be there they couldn’t just leave they were stuck in there. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup)
The Nazi’s started deporting people in July through August. Most people went to camps where they eventually would be getting killed. A big camp was called Auschwitz, all around the world Jews were getting took there. Some numbers have been said that 1,000 Jews where getting took there every two to three days. They would take them there until they would be killed using gas chambers. By the end of September 1942 almost 83,000 Jews had been deported to this camp just from France. In 1945, only 780 Jews remained alive, they killed the rest. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup) Madeline Testyler was one of the children who got arrested.
She was only eight years old when the French police came into her house and took her. Madeline was taken with her mother and younger sister Arlette who was six at the time. Their father was took earlier in the year, they were really upset about his arrest. Her mother was upset the most because she didn’t think she could keep their children safe. Madelines mother tried giving food and clothes to her husband in the camp but the guards wouldn’t let her. This made her really upset and she cried on the bus back home. A woman came up to her and asked what was wrong, they ladies husband was one of the head guards at the camp and she promised Madelines mother that she would help them. His name was Gaston Schiffimacher, he was a police officer originally from Lorraine. He was forced to join Hitlers army and then became a guard at the concentration camp. (Klieger, 10)
After all of this happened, Madeline her mother and sister started hiding out and staying with people. They stayed with the officer and her husband for a while. Madelines mother was working for a fur company in France, they were also supposed to help hide and save them. They promised they were going to help the family’s father but never did. The family relied on the fur company for many things and they did many things to help them. (Klieger, …show more content…
10)
During hide out, the family got arrested. They went to the stadium with the rest of the people. When they were on their way there the officers just shoved them into the buses, at first the girls just thought it was a joke and was playing on the bus. When they got into the place it was crazy and hectic. Not many people stayed together as a family but this special family did. The fur company somehow got the family released from the stadium. (Klieger, 10)
Once they got released the family moved to Vendome, where they stayed until the end of the war.
Time passed and after the war the families father never came back and the mother died of a stroke. After Madeline’s mother died she started working for the fur company at the age of 13; she never went back to school because she worked. When Madeline was much older she married Yosef Testyler, he was also a Jew. After a while they moved to Israel, where they were free and didn’t have to worry about getting killed. (Klieger, 10) (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
Another lady was also taken during this roundup; her name was Cecile Widerman Kaufman. She was 11 years old when she was arrested, along with two sisters and parents. Her mother had tuberculosis. When the family got arrested they went to the stadium too and they were split up. They father tried to keep the family together because of the mother’s illness, but only Cecile and her younger sister got to stay with her. They took them all right to the hospital and the father and older sister stayed at the stadium. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium,
2012)
When they got to the hospital, the mother arranged for them to be snuck out of the hospital by their grandparents. They found them a safe house, Cecile took care of her younger sister. Later they both moved to the U.S. and got taken care of by a Jewish Dr. When all of this was happening Cecile wrote in a diary about everything that was going on. They were so happy to get away from everything that was happening back home. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
When Cecile got older she tried to find information about the rest of her family. She sent the government a letter asking what happen and it was a while later before she heard anything. When she got the information she was devastated, all of her family got sent to Auschwitz and killed. She hadn’t seen any of them since she got separated and took to the safe house. This really disturbed her because she only knew them for 11 years. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
Cecile wanted people to know what happen to her family, she just didn’t know how to do it. She decided that she was going to publish her diary that she had written all the events that went on. First she had to translate this into English, after this she published a book called “Goodbye for Always: the Triumph of the Innocents” in 1997. She wanted people to know about her family and the ones who passed. Cecile felt like this helped her healing because she was remembering them. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
This was a very difficult time for so many people, Jews were hit very hard. Many Jews got sent to Auschwitz, where they got sent to the gas chambers and killed there. Not many Jews survived this and there weren’t many children to tell about it either. Some people and children escaped and got to tell their story. This didn’t just hurt the Jews this hurt some of the people having to take them; it even hurt the nation a little bit. The holocaust affects many people still to this day.
During this particular round up they started taking the Jews in May and June in 1942. The Nazi’s took the Jews from Germany, Austria, …show more content…
Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, and different places in France. Many people from France got took from the French Police not the Nazi’s. The Jews seen the police everywhere, most of the police and Jews were pretty good friends. Some of the police even aided the Jews in escaping or hiding them. Some families of the police officers kept the Jews hidden in their own houses when they started to realize what was happening. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup)
Hitler didn’t care what age the Jews were, he was taking all of them and getting them out of his way. He would take mothers with newborn babies, small children, even the old that would not even make it very much longer. As long as he did not have to deal with them anymore he was happy. When the Jews first started getting took the soldiers and police only took the men and boys. Women and children didn’t go into hiding for a while because they thought they would just take them males, but then they started taking everyone. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup)
When the Jews got arrested they put them all into a small bus like thing where they rode to the Vel’drome d’Hiver stadium. There wasn’t a restroom, food or water. As you can see it would get pretty nasty and terrible. They were sent to these places to wait until they got deported somewhere. There were a total of 13,000 people held at this stadium, 4,000 of them were children. It was crowded, lack of food and water many Jews died there. It was a terrible place to be at that time and the Jews had to be there they couldn’t just leave they were stuck in there. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup)
The Nazi’s started deporting people in July through August. Most people went to camps where they eventually would be getting killed. A big camp was called Auschwitz, all around the world Jews were getting took there. Some numbers have been said that 1,000 Jews where getting took there every two to three days. They would take them there until they would be killed using gas chambers. By the end of September 1942 almost 83,000 Jews had been deported to this camp just from France. In 1945, only 780 Jews remained alive, they killed the rest. (The Holocaust in France The Veldrome d'Hiver Roundup) Madeline Testyler was one of the children who got arrested.
She was only eight years old when the French police came into her house and took her. Madeline was taken with her mother and younger sister Arlette who was six at the time. Their father was took earlier in the year, they were really upset about his arrest. Her mother was upset the most because she didn’t think she could keep their children safe. Madelines mother tried giving food and clothes to her husband in the camp but the guards wouldn’t let her. This made her really upset and she cried on the bus back home. A woman came up to her and asked what was wrong, they ladies husband was one of the head guards at the camp and she promised Madelines mother that she would help them. His name was Gaston Schiffimacher, he was a police officer originally from Lorraine. He was forced to join Hitlers army and then became a guard at the concentration camp. (Klieger, 10)
After all of this happened, Madeline her mother and sister started hiding out and staying with people. They stayed with the officer and her husband for a while. Madelines mother was working for a fur company in France, they were also supposed to help hide and save them. They promised they were going to help the family’s father but never did. The family relied on the fur company for many things and they did many things to help them. (Klieger, …show more content…
10)
During hide out, the family got arrested. They went to the stadium with the rest of the people. When they were on their way there the officers just shoved them into the buses, at first the girls just thought it was a joke and was playing on the bus. When they got into the place it was crazy and hectic. Not many people stayed together as a family but this special family did. The fur company somehow got the family released from the stadium. (Klieger, 10)
Once they got released the family moved to Vendome, where they stayed until the end of the war.
Time passed and after the war the families father never came back and the mother died of a stroke. After Madeline’s mother died she started working for the fur company at the age of 13; she never went back to school because she worked. When Madeline was much older she married Yosef Testyler, he was also a Jew. After a while they moved to Israel, where they were free and didn’t have to worry about getting killed. (Klieger, 10) (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
Another lady was also taken during this roundup; her name was Cecile Widerman Kaufman. She was 11 years old when she was arrested, along with two sisters and parents. Her mother had tuberculosis. When the family got arrested they went to the stadium too and they were split up. They father tried to keep the family together because of the mother’s illness, but only Cecile and her younger sister got to stay with her. They took them all right to the hospital and the father and older sister stayed at the stadium. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium,
2012)
When they got to the hospital, the mother arranged for them to be snuck out of the hospital by their grandparents. They found them a safe house, Cecile took care of her younger sister. Later they both moved to the U.S. and got taken care of by a Jewish Dr. When all of this was happening Cecile wrote in a diary about everything that was going on. They were so happy to get away from everything that was happening back home. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
When Cecile got older she tried to find information about the rest of her family. She sent the government a letter asking what happen and it was a while later before she heard anything. When she got the information she was devastated, all of her family got sent to Auschwitz and killed. She hadn’t seen any of them since she got separated and took to the safe house. This really disturbed her because she only knew them for 11 years. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
Cecile wanted people to know what happen to her family, she just didn’t know how to do it. She decided that she was going to publish her diary that she had written all the events that went on. First she had to translate this into English, after this she published a book called “Goodbye for Always: the Triumph of the Innocents” in 1997. She wanted people to know about her family and the ones who passed. Cecile felt like this helped her healing because she was remembering them. (Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel D'Hiv Roundup In Paris Stadium, 2012)
This was a very difficult time for so many people, Jews were hit very hard. Many Jews got sent to Auschwitz, where they got sent to the gas chambers and killed there. Not many Jews survived this and there weren’t many children to tell about it either. Some people and children escaped and got to tell their story. This didn’t just hurt the Jews this hurt some of the people having to take them; it even hurt the nation a little bit. The holocaust affects many people still to this day.