Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun daga farkon mamayewa, an bi da Yahudawa a Paris da matsananciyar wahala. A ranar 18 ga Oktoba, 1940, hukumomin mamayar Jamus sun ba da doka, a cikin abin da aka sani da "Ordonnance d'Aryanisation", cewa Yahudawa za su sami matsayi na musamman kuma za a hana su daga ayyukan 'yanci, kamar kasuwanci, masana'antu, don haka ya shafi lauyoyi, likitoci, furofesoshi, masu shaguna, kuma an hana su daga wasu gidajen cin abinci da wuraren jama'a, kuma an kama dukiyarsu. A ranar 23 ga Mayu, 1942, shugaban sashen 'yan sandan Nazi na Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, ya ba da umurni a asirce cewa a kai Yahudawa daga Faransa zuwa sansanin fursunoni na Auschwitz. A ranar 29 ga Mayu, 1942, duk yahudawa a Yankin da aka mamaye sama da shekaru shida an buƙaci su sa launin rawaya Star of David badge. A watan Yuli, an hana Yahudawa daga dukkan manyan tituna, gidajen sinima, dakunan karatu, wuraren shakatawa, lambuna, gidajen cin abinci, gidajen cin abinci da sauran wuraren jama'a, kuma an bukace su da su hau motar karshe ta jirgin karkashin kasa. A ranar 16 zuwa 17 ga Yuli, 1942, bisa umarnin Jamusawa, 'yan sandan Faransa sun tattara Yahudawa 13,152 (yara 4,115, mata 5,919 da maza 3,118). An kai marasa aure da ma'aurata ba tare da yara ba zuwa Drancy, kimanin kilomita 20 arewa da Paris, yayin da maza 8,160, mata da yara da suka hada da iyalai suka tafi "Vélodrome d'Hiver"
("Vel' d'Hiv'") filin wasa, a kan "rue Nelaton" a gundumar ta 15, inda aka cunkushe su tare a lokacin zafi, ba tare da abinci, ruwa da rashin tsafta ba har tsawon kwanaki biyar kafin a tura su zuwa Drancy, Compiègne, Pithiviers da Beaune-la-Rolande sansanonin tsare mutane, masu gabatarwa ga sansanin kisan gilla na Auschwitz. 'Yan Jamus sun yi la'akari da cewa rundunar ta kasa, tun da sun shirya jiragen kasa don mutane 32,000. An ci gaba da kama mutane a shekara ta 1943 da 1944. A lokacin 'Yanci, an kiyasta cewa an tura Yahudawa 43,000 daga yankin Paris, ko kusan rabin yawan jama'ar al'ummar, zuwa sansanonin taro, kuma cewa 34,000 sun mutu a can.