00:00A small green piece of paper, whoever received it, was told to report to a gymnasium to clarify
00:06their residency status. But what followed changed the lives of thousands of people forever.
00:11On the 14th of May, 1941 in Paris, on orders from the SS and the Gestapo, the French police
00:19arrested around 3,800 Jewish men and later deported them to camps. Today, an exhibition
00:25at the French Embassy in Berlin commemorates this first major round-up of Jews in occupied France
00:31and for the first time, showed the faces of the victims.
00:59Ninety-eight photographs. For decades, they were considered lost, but in 2020, they were
01:05rediscovered. The man behind the camera, Harry Croner, a Berlin photographer, who through his
01:12father is himself of Jewish descent. Ironically, he was assigned by a member of the SS and the
01:18head of the Gestapo's Jewish Affairs Unit to document the raid. But Croner did not photograph
01:23the men as an anonymous mass, but as human beings, with faces and dignity.
01:28What we want as Claims Conference is to say that the memory is a very important part of the
01:37today's social and social life. And what we see here today is the beginning of the time
01:44that it had been there. And that's why we want to say that the memory is not something that
01:49it was just in the past, but it also concerns us today.
01:53The project aims to connect and strengthen European remembrance efforts. Lillianne Reisfeld
01:59regularly speaks with students about her story. This gives the 91-year-old hope for a peaceful
02:05future for coming generations.
02:0780 years later, I remember the dress that I wore as a little girl when I accompanied my
02:16father and my mother to the police. And it was strange because for years, I had never thought
02:23of this dress. And I had a flash. One day, I had a blue shirt with smocks and fantasies on
02:31a shirt. And this memory came back 80 years or 85 years later.
02:39The exhibition, titled Faces of Memory, is on display at the French Embassy in Berlin until
02:45the 9th of July.
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