Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deportations. Compared to the often-courageous public figures in smaller French cities and towns, who in many cases saved thousands of Jews with clever paperwork and bravado, the Paris officials were almost uniformly willing to carry out Nazi orders. Says Rosenblum: "We were driven to the Velodrome d'Hiver, a big arena for bicycling races, and here we remained in the most atrocious conditions. There were a few Red Cross helpers, but we were under the French police...People screamed all night long. Women threw themselves off the top of the stands. I still hear the screams...