Vel' d'Hiv roundup - Quiz
  • 1. When did legal proceedings against gendarmes begin following the Liberation?
A) During the war
B) Before the roundup
C) After the Liberation
D) In 1950
  • 2. How many gendarmes were initially investigated?
A) 3
B) 15
C) 7
D) 10
  • 3. How many gendarmes were accused at the Cour de justice of the Seine?
A) 3
B) 15
C) 10
D) 7
  • 4. How many gendarmes fled before the trial began?
A) 15
B) 7
C) 10
D) 3
  • 5. What defense did the seven gendarmes offer for their actions?
A) They were coerced by Nazis
B) They did not participate
C) They were unaware of the camp
D) They were only obeying orders
  • 6. What was the date of the court ruling?
A) 15 January 1948
B) 22 March 1947
C) 22 March 1948
D) 12 July 1945
  • 7. On what grounds were most of the seven gendarmes considered rehabilitated?
A) Donating money to survivors
B) Testifying against the Nazis
C) Active, useful, and sustained participation in the Resistance
D) A formal apology to survivors
  • 8. How many gendarmes were jailed for two years?
A) 10
B) 2
C) 3
D) 7
  • 9. What penalty, besides jail, were the two gendarmes given?
A) Lifetime exile
B) Community service
C) Dégradation nationale
D) Capital punishment
  • 10. How long was the dégradation nationale sentence?
A) Five years
B) Ten years
C) Two years
D) One year
  • 11. What happened to the two jailed gendarmes a year after their sentencing?
A) They were executed
B) Their sentences were doubled
C) They were reprieved
D) They were transferred to another prison
  • 12. Who was the leader of the Vichy government during the war?
A) Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain
B) Serge Klarsfeld
C) Pierre Laval
D) René Bousquet
  • 13. According to historian Julian T. Jackson, were the arrests of Jews forced upon the Vichy regime by the Germans?
A) No, it was an autonomous policy
B) Yes, it was forced by the Nazis
C) Yes, but only in the occupied north
D) No, it was forced by the Italians
  • 14. What did René Bousquet worry about regarding the arrests during the 2 July 1942 meeting?
A) The lack of transportation for the prisoners
B) The embarrassing fact that the French police would carry them out
C) The potential for public protests
D) The cost of the operation
  • 15. Who gave the order to include children younger than 16 in the roundup?
A) Marshal Pétain
B) The Nazi High Command
C) Pierre Laval
D) René Bousquet
  • 16. What was the official 'humanitarian' justification given for including children in the roundup?
A) To feed them in government camps
B) To provide them with labor training in the east
C) To protect them from air raids
D) To keep families together
  • 17. What age was the youngest child sent to Auschwitz under Laval's orders?
A) Newborn
B) 5 years old
C) 18 months old
D) 10 years old
  • 18. Who investigated and found minutes in German archives regarding Vichy official meetings?
A) Julian T. Jackson
B) Serge Klarsfeld
C) Artemis Cooper
D) Antony Beevor
  • 19. In what year were charges of crimes against humanity laid against René Bousquet?
A) 1942
B) 1945
C) 1980
D) 1990
  • 20. According to the text, what was the primary reason Vichy wanted to preserve independence?
A) To overthrow the German occupiers
B) To save money on military policing
C) To join the Allied forces
D) To avoid further erosion of their sovereignty
  • 21. What did telegrams sent by Bousquet to Prefects of départements order regarding children?
A) To only deport children over the age of 16
B) To release children from detention centers
C) To deport children whose deportation was not requested by the Nazis
D) To hide children from German patrols
  • 22. How did former SS officers describe the attitude of Vichy officials in 1980?
A) Enthusiastic about the deportation of Jews
B) Unhappy and defiant
C) Reluctant and forced by the Nazis
D) Unaware of the deportation process
  • 23. When did the Vel' d'Hiv roundup take place?
A) 4 July 1942
B) 16–17 July 1942
C) 27 September 1940
D) 14 May 1941
  • 24. How many Jews were arrested according to Paris Police Prefecture records?
A) 6,694
B) 3,747
C) 22,000
D) 13,152
  • 25. What was the Vélodrome d'Hiver originally designed for?
A) Religious services
B) Internment of prisoners
C) Cycling
D) Military training
  • 26. Which French president was the first to apologise for the role of French police in the roundup?
A) Jacques Chirac
B) François Mitterrand
C) Charles de Gaulle
D) Emmanuel Macron
  • 27. What was the name of the filing system used to track Jews in Paris?
A) The Gestapo Register
B) The Dannecker Index
C) Fichier Tulard
D) The Vichy Archives
  • 28. Which concentration camp was the primary destination for those deported from the roundup?
A) Dachau
B) Sobibor
C) Auschwitz
D) Treblinka
  • 29. Who was the SS captain who headed the German police in France?
A) Adolf Eichmann
B) René Bousquet
C) Theodor Dannecker
D) Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
  • 30. Which organization was created by the Vichy government in 1941 to implement antisemitic policies?
A) The French Gestapo
B) Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives
C) The Paris Police Prefecture
D) Union générale des israélites de France
  • 31. Which specific location served as the internment site for foreign women in 1940, acting as a precedent for the Vel' d'Hiv?
A) Drancy
B) Beaune-la-Rolande
C) Vélodrome d'Hiver
D) Pithiviers
  • 32. How many children were reported as arrested in the roundup?
A) 6,694
B) 13,152
C) 2,000
D) 4,115
  • 33. Who ordered that the operation must be effected with maximum speed, without pointless speaking?
A) Jacques Doriot
B) Émile Hennequin
C) Jacques Goddet
D) Henri Desgrange
  • 34. How many French police officers were involved in the start of the manhunt?
A) 3,400
B) 5,802
C) 13,152
D) 9,000
  • 35. What political party members volunteered to help in the roundup?
A) Red Cross
B) French Resistance
C) Quakers
D) Parti Populaire Français (PPF)
  • 36. What percentage of those arrested were children?
A) 12%
B) 25%
C) 31%
D) 44%
  • 37. Which of the following items were permitted for the arrested people to bring?
A) A blanket
B) Jewelry
C) Family photos
D) Food
  • 38. Where were some of the captured people taken as an internment camp in a northern suburb?
A) Beaune-la-Rolande
B) Vélodrome d'Hiver
C) Pithiviers
D) Drancy
  • 39. What organization provided food and water to the prisoners at the Vel' d'Hiv'?
A) French Resistance
B) Red Cross
C) Quakers
D) French police
  • 40. How many water faucets were available for the prisoners at the Vel' d'Hiv'?
A) One
B) Five
C) Ten
D) Zero
  • 41. What was the final destination for most of the prisoners after being moved from the initial internment camps?
A) Extermination camps
B) Labor farms
C) Neutral countries
D) Their homes
  • 42. Which institution was among those that protested the Vel' d'Hiv roundup?
A) The French Resistance
B) The French Communist Party
C) The American Diplomatic Corps
D) The Roman Catholic church
  • 43. What was the shape of the Drancy internment camp?
A) A rectangle
B) A square
C) A horseshoe
D) A circle
  • 44. Who was in charge of the Drancy camp from August 1942 to June 1943?
A) The Prefect of Police
B) Heinz Röthke
C) Pierre Laval
D) Theodor Dannecker
  • 45. How many Jewish internees were held in cells measuring 3.5 by 1.75 meters, according to a pastor in 1944?
A) Twenty
B) Ten
C) Six
D) Two
  • 46. What mode of transport was used to ship prisoners from Drancy to Auschwitz?
A) SNCF box car transports
B) Passenger trains
C) Military trucks
D) Civilian buses
  • 47. What was the method of Pierre Laval's death?
A) Firing squad
B) Assassination
C) Cyanide capsule
D) Hanging
  • 48. Who became president of Warner Lambert, Inc. in London after the war?
A) Jean Leguay
B) René Bousquet
C) Louis Darquier
D) Helmut Knochen
  • 49. Where did Louis Darquier flee to avoid his 1947 death sentence?
A) Baden-Baden
B) Germany
C) London
D) Spain
  • 50. Who pardoned Helmut Knochen in 1962?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) René Bousquet
C) Pierre Laval
D) François Mitterrand
  • 51. How did Theodor Dannecker die?
A) Suicide
B) Strafed in his car
C) Old age
D) Execution
  • 52. For how long did the French government decline to apologize for the role of French policemen in the roundup?
A) For five years
B) For exactly one century
C) For decades
D) The French government apologized immediately
  • 53. How many French police and gendarmes participated in the roundup on 16 July 1942 according to Jacques Chirac?
A) 450
B) 53
C) 13,000
D) 10,000
  • 54. Which political figure claimed during the 2017 election that the Vichy government was 'not France'?
A) François Hollande
B) Emmanuel Macron
C) Marine Le Pen
D) Jacques Chirac
  • 55. What did Emmanuel Macron call the denial of France's responsibility for the 1942 roundup?
A) National pride
B) A Republican virtue
C) Diplomatic strategy
D) Historical revisionism
  • 56. Who was the sculptor of the monument on the quai de Grenelle?
A) Mario Azagury.
B) Shelomo Selinger.
C) Walter Spitzer.
D) Serge Klarsfeld.
  • 57. What does the base of the monument on the quai de Grenelle represent?
A) The walls of a rail wagon.
B) The cycle track.
C) The Hebrew letter Shin.
D) The gates of death.
  • 58. Where was a memorial plaque placed on 20 July 2008?
A) Quai de Grenelle.
B) Bir-Hakeim station.
C) The Ministry of the Interior.
D) Drancy internment camp.
  • 59. Who won the design competition for the Drancy memorial in 1976?
A) Walter Spitzer.
B) Mario Azagury.
C) Serge Klarsfeld.
D) Shelomo Selinger.
  • 60. What is the Hebrew letter represented by the three blocks of the Drancy memorial?
A) Lamed.
B) Shin.
C) Aleph.
D) Vav.
  • 61. Who directed the 2010 film The Round Up (La Rafle)?
A) Roselyne Bosch
B) Michel Mitrani
C) Joseph Losey
D) Gilles Paquet-Brenner
  • 62. Which novel by Juana Salabert won the 2001 Premio Biblioteca Breve?
A) Vichy-Auschwitz
B) Sarah's Key
C) Velódromo del invierno
D) La petite fille du Vel' d'Hiv
  • 63. Who wrote the 1991 book 'La petite fille du Vel' d'Hiv'?
A) Annette Muller
B) Serge Klarsfeld
C) Tatiana de Rosnay
D) Juana Salabert
  • 64. Which film won the 1977 César Awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Production Design?
A) The Round Up
B) Les Guichets du Louvre
C) Monsieur Klein
D) Sarah's Key
  • 65. Who directed the 1974 film Les Guichets du Louvre?
A) Michel Mitrani
B) William Karel
C) Gilles Paquet-Brenner
D) Joseph Losey
  • 66. Who directed the 2010 film adaptation of Sarah's Key?
A) Roselyne Bosch
B) William Karel
C) Gilles Paquet-Brenner
D) Michel Mitrani
  • 67. In which year was William Karel's documentary 'La Rafle du Vel-d'Hiv' released?
A) 1992
B) 2011
C) 2010
D) 1974
  • 68. Which publisher released the 2009 edition of 'La petite fille du Vel' d'Hiv'?
A) St. Martin's Press
B) Fayard
C) Cercil
D) Denoël
  • 69. Who produced the 2010 film The Round Up (La Rafle)?
A) Michel Mitrani
B) Stéphane Marsil
C) Serge Klarsfeld
D) Alain Goldman
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