Betrayal at the Vel d'Hiv Author:Claude Levy and Paul Tillard On July 16 and 17, 1942, thousands of Jews in Paris were taken to a vast sports arena-- the Velodrome d'Hiver. They had been rounded up for shipment to the German death camps, but they were not arrested by the Germans. That work was done, with alacrity and thoroughness, by the French police. This is the little-known story of those two fateful da... more »ys, of a betrayal that today the French can scarcely bellieve.« less