Euronews Reports on Previously Unseen 1941 Paris Roundup Photos Giving 'Victims a Face'

Euronews published a culture report on May 22, 2026, spotlighting the exhibition of 98 previously unseen Nazi propaganda photographs from the May 14, 1941 'Rafle du billet vert' (Green Ticket Roundup) of Jewish men in Paris — the first large-scale French police roundup organized on SS orders. The report, titled 'Jewish raid in Paris: Missing photos finally give victims of the Nazi era a face,' described how photographer Harry Croner's images — discovered in the German Federal Archives and organized by the Claims Conference — had been exhibited at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris (from May 10, 2026) and the French Embassy in Berlin (from May 11, 2026). The photographs show individual faces of the Jewish men being arrested by French police under German orders — humanizing victims who for 85 years had been statistical abstractions. Of the approximately 3,800 men arrested during the May 1941 roundup, around 3,100 were subsequently deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in July 1942 and murdered. The Berlin exhibition was scheduled to run through July 9, 2026. The Euronews report noted that France has been in an extended period of confronting its Vichy-era record of collaboration, following President Chirac's 1995 acknowledgment of French state responsibility for the Vél d'Hiv Roundup (July 1942) and President Macron's 2017 speech at the same event.