page_title: Green ticket roundup
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Green ticket roundup / Operations
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Frankreich, Internierungslager Pithiviers 1941: Das Juden -Internierungslager von Pithiviers im Departement Loiret (Frankreich): Nach der Ankunft im Lager eingehende Kontrolle der Neuangekommenen durch die französische Polizei. 10 000-41
context_page_description: The green ticket roundup is the name given to the summons and arrest of foreign Jews in France by French police on 14 May 1941.
  Although called by this name, it was not actually a "roundup" since the summons were mailed, and those who responded reported to an assembly point on their own. Those who appeared as ordered were arrested, and deported to one of two transit camps in France. From there, the great majority were shipped to Auschwitz where they were killed.
context_section_description: On the basis of censuses, 6694 foreign Jews, mostly Polish males between 18 and 60 years old living in the Paris region, received a summons on a green card (the French: billet vert) hand-delivered by a French policemean for a "status review" (French: examen de situation, lit. 'examination of situation'". The green cards ordered them to go to Parisian police stations on 14 May 1941, accompanied by a relative. The card read:
  Mr. _______ is invited to present himself in person, accompanied by one member of his family or by one friend, at 7:00 in the morning on May 14, 1941, for an examination of his situation.  He is asked to provide identification. Those who do not present themselves on the set day and hour are liable for the most severe sanctions.
  More than half (3747) obeyed the summons, because they thought it was only an administrative formality, and were immediately arrested; while the person accompanying them was requested to go fetch their belongings and food. They were transferred by bus to the Paris Austerlitz railway station and deported the same day by four special trains to the internment camps of the Loiret department, about 1700 in Pithiviers and 2000 in Beaune-la-Rolande.
caption: Pithiviers, 1941: Internment camp in the Loiret department (France): Thorough inspection of the new arrivals at the camp.
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