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: About 7,000 of those arrested—including over 4,000 children —were held for five days at the Vélodrome d'Hiver , an indoor cycling stadium near the Eiffel Tower.

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

: The stadium conditions were inhumane, with almost no food, water, or sanitation and extreme heat due to a sealed glass roof. : About 7,000 of those arrested—including over 4,000

The roundup was a coordinated effort by German Nazi occupiers and the collaborationist . : About 7

: 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