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[Parti…] cipating on the German side are
Dannecker and his assistant, Ernst Heinrichsohn. On the French side are
Darquier de Pellepoix and his chief administrator, Pierre Galien; Jean Leguay,
Bousquet's representative in the Occupied Zone; Jean François, director
of general police functions and Jewish questions at the Prefecture of Police
(responsible for Paris area internment camps); André Tulard (whom the
Germans call "chief of the Jewish dossiers at the Prefecture"); and three other
police officials.
There are two reports, French and German, on this
meeting. After a brief introduction by Darquier de Pellepoix, Dannecker opens
the agenda to discussion.
First of all, the number of Jews to be taken:
the maximum number is raised to 28,000 from three departments – the Seine,
covering Paris, and the suburban departments of Seine-et-Oise and
Seine-et-Marne. After deducting old people and the sick, the total number of
arrests is fixed at 22,000, as anticipated.
Then the question of
deciding who are stateless Jews is raised. They are defined as Jews of German,
Austrian, Polish, Czech, Russian (both Soviet and Czarist), and unknown
nationality.
The ages of those to be seized are fixed: 16 to 50, "and,
depending on their physical condition, children of 15." Exemptions are noted
for women in an advanced state of pregnancy, nursing mothers, and Jewish
spouses of Aryans.
The operation will proceed as follows: index cards
matching the criteria will be taken from the central file on Jews, sorted by
neighborhood, and turned over to the Paris police, who will transmit them to
police stations in Paris neighborhoods. The review of cards will be completed
by July 10 and the action will begin on Monday, July 13.
The arrested
Jews will be collected in each neighborhood and then assembled in the
Vélodrome d'Hiver (Vel d'Hiv), the Paris indoor bicycle arena. Then,
without separating families, they will be sent to the following camps: 6,000 to
Drancy, 6,000 to Compiègne, 5,000 to Pithiviers, and 5,000 to
Beaune-la-Rolande.
Children under 15 or 16 years of age will be turned
over to UGIF, which will place them in children's homes.
As to the pace
of deportations, Dannecker envisages dispatch of one transport per week from
each of the four camps.
With the broad outlines of the operation in the
Occupied Zone determined, Knochen informs the German Embassy of them, as well
as the German military commands for France and Paris. His note refers to the
deportation of "a substantial quantity of Jews." The outcome of the
negotiations with Laval, Bousquet, and Darquier de Pellepoix, approved by
Marshal Pétain and the Vichy cabinet, will be the arrests of all
stateless Jews aged 16 to 45 in the two zones, except those in mixed marriages
with non-Jews. "In the Occupied Zone," he says, "that will yield a number of
about 22,000." Note that this figure now covers the entire Occupied Zone, not
just greater Paris. In the meantime, most of the German SiPo-SD commanders
outside Paris have been in contact with Dannecker and are taking steps to annul
planned deportation convoys from their areas because they must be limited to
stateless Jews, who are too few in number outside Paris to fill trains intended
to transport 1,000 Jews each. Dannecker concedes it is not known how many
stateless Jews will be arrested in the Unoccupied Zone.
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST A memorial
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