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