フランスのユダヤ人一斉検挙初日の写真、パリで初公開

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】第２次世界大戦時に、フランスで実施されたユダヤ人の一斉検挙の様子を捉えた写真が１４日から、パリで初公開される。フランスは当時、検挙したユダヤ人をナチス・ドイツの強制収容所へ送っていた。（写真はフランス・パリのジャピ体育館外で、検挙されたユダヤ人の夫のために毛布や食料を持ってきた女性ら。仏パリ・ショア記念館提供）
　「緑紙の一斉検挙」は、１９４１年５月１４日と１５日にパリで初めて実施された。仏国外出身のユダヤ人６０００人以上が、定期的な登録手続きのためと称しパリ各地の市役所に呼び出された。
　フランス当局は、市役所に集まった男性３７４７人を逮捕し、パリ南部の収容所に移送した。その後数か月で約数千人が検挙された。
　収容所のユダヤ人らは１年後、アウシュビッツ・ビルケナウ強制収容所に送られた。
　ナチスの宣伝部がプロパガンダ目的で撮影した「緑紙の一斉検挙」初日の写真９８枚は最近、パリのホロコースト（ユダヤ人大量虐殺）犠牲者にささげられた「ショア記念館」によって偶然発見された。
　写真の大半は、パリ１１区にあるジャピ体育館で撮影されたもので、ここでは１０００人近くが逮捕された。写真は、一斉検挙初日から８０年を迎える今月１４日から同体育館で展示される。
　この中の１枚には、フランスにおける「ユダヤ人問題の最終的解決」を指揮したナチス親衛隊（ＳＳ）の隊員、テオドール・ダンネッカーやフランソワ・バー仏警視総監が写っている。また、二度と会えないとは知らず、抱き合うカップルを写したものもある。
　ショア記念館の写真部門責任者は、「ナチスはこれらの写真で、ユダヤ人を人間以下の『寄生虫』と描こうとしていたが、そのプロパガンダとは真逆のものが見て取れる貴重な写真だ」と述べた。
　発見された写真は何年も前に、ノルウェーののみの市で骨董（こっとう）商の男性が買ったもので、男性は最近になりショア記念館に連絡した。同館は男性に、写真は同館が知る限り「緑紙の一斉検挙」を捉えた唯一の写真だと説明したという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/05/14-20:43）

Never-before-seen photos going on display in Paris this week shine a light on a dark moment in France's role in rounding up Jews to send to Nazi death camps during World War II.
The green ticket round-up was first carried out in Paris on May 14 and 15, 1941, with more than 6,000 foreign-born Jews summoned to town halls across the city for what was billed as routine registration.
Instead, the 3,747 men who showed up were arrested by the French authorities and shipped to camps south of Paris. Thousands more were rounded up in the following months.
They were held there for a year before being deported to the Auschwitz death camp.
By chance, a stash of 98 photos from the first green ticket round-up, taken by a German soldier on propaganda duty, were recently discovered by the Memorial de la Shoah, the Holocaust Museum of Paris.
Most were taken at the Japy sports hall in the city's 11th arrondissement, where close to 1,000 were arrested, and where the photos are being put on display from Friday, exactly 80 years on.
One shows SS officer Theodor Dannecker, who was in charge of implementing the Final Solution in France, alongside French police commissioner Francois Bard in the hall.
Others show couples embracing outside, unaware that they would never see each other again.
These photos are important because we see the opposite of Nazi propaganda that tried to depict these people as sub-human 'parasites', said Lior Lalieu-Smadja, who heads the museum's photography department.
Was that a deliberate move by the photographer? One has to wonder, said Lalieu-Smadja, not least because the photographer was identified as Harry Croner, who was soon after kicked out of the German army after it was discovered that his father was Jewish.
The photos were bought years ago by an antiques dealer in Normandy who had found them at a flea market. He pulled them out of storage recently and contacted the museum, who informed him they were the only known pictures from the infamous round-up.
Little else is known about the photos' journey.
The only thing we know for certain is that once they were taken, they were sent directly to Berlin. The photographer himself could not keep them, which makes this discovery even more incredible, said Lalieu-Smadja.