The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews / Susan Zuccotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zuccotti, Susan, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--France.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions.

France.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

France--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [1999]

Summary:

& Many recent books have documented the collaboration of the French authorities with the anti-Jewish German policies of World War II. Yet about 76 percent of France' s Jews survived- more than in almost any other country in Western Europe. How do we explain this phenomenon? Certainly not by looking at official French policy, for the Vichy government began preparing racial laws even before the German occupiers had decreed such laws. To provide a full answer to the question of how so many French Jews survived, Susan Zuccotti examines the response of the French people to the Holocaust. Drawing on memoirs, government documents, and personal interviews with survivors, she tells the stories of ordinary and extraordinary French men and women. Zuccotti argues that the French reaction to the Holocaust was not as reprehensible as it has been portrayed.

Contents:

1 Jews in France before the War 7

2 War Begins, 1939-1940 31

3 Racial Laws, 1940-1941 51

4 Internment Camps in the Unoccupied Zone, 1940-1941 65

5 Roundups and Deportations, May 1941-June 1942 81

6 The July Roundup, Paris, 1942 103

7 Expulsions from the Unoccupied Zone, August-September 1942 118

8 Attitudes toward the Jews, 1942 138

9 Arrests of Foreign Jews, September 1942-February 1943 157

10 No Holds Barred, January-December 1943 172

11 The Final Abandonment, 1944 190

12 Jewish Rescue Organizations 210

13 Survival and Non-Jewish Rescuers 227

14 Crossing Frontiers 247

15 Jews in the Armed Resistance 260.

Notes:

"Reprinted from the 1993 edition by BasicBooks, New York"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-366) and index.

ISBN:

0803299141

OCLC:

40631958