C215 facing the ghosts of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv’


On the mailboxes of the Marais, in Paris, the faces of the children of the district carried away by Nazi barbarism with the complicity of the French State.  (illustrative image)

La Rafle du Vel d’Hiv’ is one of the darkest pages in the history of the collaboration. So as not to forget, the Shoah Memorial in Paris asked the famous street artist C215 to stencil 14 portraits of children, installed at the Memorial, but also in the surrounding streets… Where lived Maurice, Fernande, Denise, deported at 9, 6 and 14 years old.

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