The Vélodrome d'Hiver (French pronunciation: [velɔdʁɔm divɛʁ], Winter Velodrome), colloquially Vel' d'Hiv', was an indoor bicycle racing cycle track and...
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Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (redirect from Rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver)
to an indoor sports arena, known as the ‘Vel d’Hiv’, or Vélodrome d’Hiver (lit.“Winter Velodrome”), in extremely crowded conditions, without any arrangements...
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more common. Indoor velodromes were also common particularly in the late 19th and early 20th century. For example, the Vélodrome d'hiver was built in Paris...
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The Vélodrome de Vincennes (officially Vélodrome Jacques Anquetil - La Cipale) is a cycling stadium in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France. Initially...
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Racism in France (section The Vélodrome d'Hiver)
concentration camp during the Vélodrome d'Hiver raids. Arrested Jews were transported by bus to the Vélodrome d'hiver (or Vel' d'hiv'). Singles or couples...
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London, England 17 Loss 15–2 Young Stribling DQ 7 (10) 7 Dec 1929 Vélodrome d'Hiver, Paris, France 16 Win 15–1 Young Stribling DQ 4 (15) 18 Nov 1929 Royal...
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Barcelona, Spain 51 Win 40–9–2 Maurice Griselle TKO 5 (10) Oct 18, 1930 Vélodrome d'Hiver, Paris, France 50 Loss 39–9–2 Johnny Risko PTS 10 Jun 19, 1930 Navin...
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Eiffel Tower. Near the station is the site of the former Vélodrome d'hiver (Winter Velodrome or "Vel' d'Hiv"), which was famous for its cycling competitions...
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sport, with the opening in 1903 of the first cycling stadium, the Vélodrome d'hiver, on the site of the demolished Palace of Machinery from the 1900 Exposition...
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082 women, on 16 and 17 July and imprisoned them in the Vélodrome d'Hiver (Winter Velodrome) in unhygienic conditions. They were led to Drancy internment...
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That garden was the place where my appearance as a cyclist at the Vélodrome d'Hiver was thought up. Gleizes and Villon claimed that I wouldn't be able...
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deportation of numerous Jews, an agreement which led to the roundup of the Vélodrome d'Hiver. The Butte Montmartre district will not escape it, indeed the family...
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Velodrome. Argyll Velodrome. Retrieved on 2012-01-13. Russian bear displays true golden color TrtC CITIZEN. AUBURN. N.Y., TUESDAY, JULY 5 "Vélodrome de...
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ten-year-old Sarah and her parents. First, the family is sent to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, an enclosed stadium that housed a bicycling track for racing. The...
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the key with her when she and her parents are transported to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where they are held in inhuman conditions by the Paris Police and...
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including more than 4,000 children, were interned and locked into the Vélodrome d'Hiver, without adequate food or sanitation. In the meantime, the Germans...
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115 children, and confined them during five days at the Vel d'Hiv (Vélodrome d'Hiver), from which they were transported by train to the extermination camp...
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French Republic. In July 2017, while at a ceremony at the site of the Vélodrome d'Hiver where 13,000 Jews had been rounded up for deportation to death camps...
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Olympic Games as an independent nation. Originally called Semaine des Sports d'Hiver ("Week of Winter Sports") and held in association with the 1924 Summer...
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Win 39–5–8 (19) Frank Moran PTS 20 27 Jun 1914 36 years, 88 days Vélodrome d'Hiver, Paris, France Retained world heavyweight title 70 Draw 38–5–8 (19)...
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taken second place at EuroBasket 1949, behind 1949 hosts Egypt. The Vélodrome d'hiver, Paris was the location of the event. 73 matches were held over the...
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new editions, only months after the round-up of French Jews at the Vélodrome d'Hiver. Céline devoted most of his time during the occupation years to his...
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internment camp memorial Camp des Milles memorial (Aix-en-Provence) Vélodrome d’Hiver memorial (Paris) Memorial Museum to the Children of Vel d'Hiv (Orléans)...
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identification, supported the roundup of 13,152 Jews in the Paris Vélodrome d'Hiver (Vel' d'Hiv Roundup), and ordered mass execution of hostages in retribution...
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Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris and was contested yearly in October. The Prix du Salon was organized for the last time in 1958, after which the velodrome was...
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2017, also in commemoration of the victims of the roundup at the Vélodrome d'Hiver, President Emmanuel Macron denounced his country's role in the Holocaust...
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separately for internment. The women were gathered together in the Vélodrome d'Hiver on 15 May, so Hannah Arendt's mother, being over 55, was allowed to...
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while 8,160 men, women and children comprising families went to the Vélodrome d'Hiver ("Vel' d'Hiv'") stadium, on rue Nelaton in the 15th arrondissement...
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d'Hiv) which took place in Paris on the 16 and 17 July 1942. The Vélodrome d'Hiver was a large cycle track situated on the rue Nélaton near the Quai...
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Anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup French: Anniversaire de la rafle du Vélodrome d'hiver. Remembrance marking the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews in Paris in 1942...
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