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: Victims were later moved to transit camps like Drancy , Beaune-la-Rolande, and Pithiviers before being deported to Auschwitz . Only about 811 of those rounded up survived the war. National Recognition and Memory

: French police, rather than German soldiers, carried out the mass arrest of approximately 13,152 Jewish individuals in Paris. La rafle

For decades, the event was a taboo subject in France, with successive governments maintaining that the Vichy regime did not represent the official French Republic. A Nazi Roundup, Chaotically Evoked In 'La Rafle' - NPR : Victims were later moved to transit camps

The roundup was a coordinated effort by German Nazi occupiers and the collaborationist . rather than German soldiers