Organised by the Red de Bibliotecas Públicas de Madrid and the Centro Sefarad-Israel, the series From Book to Screen: The Holocaust through film and literature continues with the online screening of the film The Raid, directed and written by Rose Bosch and starring Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno and Gad Elmaleh, among others.
On the night of 16 July 1942, 4,500 gendarmes of the collaborationist government of Marshal Pétain, who had signed a pact with Hitler and accepted the occupation of France by the German army, carried out a gigantic round-up in Paris, in which 13,152 Jews were arrested and subsequently imprisoned, in subhuman conditions, in the Winter Velodrome. It was planned to arrest 27,391 Jews, but although the majority of the French were collaborationists, a minority took part in both passive and active resistance to the invaders. The civil disobedience of many citizens and some civil servants allowed many of those who had been previously registered and marked with the yellow star to escape. Online-only activity. The film can be seen online from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 February.
