Holocaust odysseys : the Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and their flight through France and Italy / Susan Zuccotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zuccotti, Susan, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--France--Saint-Martin-Vesubie--Biography.

Jews.

Jewish children in the Holocaust--France--Saint-Martin-Vesubie--Biography.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy--Personal narratives.

World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France--Personal narratives.

World War, 1939-1945.

Holocaust survivors--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France)--Biography.

Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 285 p., [16] p. of plates) ) ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes the ever-escalating dangers to which Jewish refugees and recent immigrants were subjected in France and Italy as the Holocaust marched forward. Susan Zuccotti uncovers a grueling yet complex history of suffering and resilience through historical documents and personal testimonies from members of nine central and eastern European Jewish families, displaced to France in the opening years of the Second World War. The chronicle of their lives reveals clearly that these Jewish families experienced persecution of far greater intensity than citizen Jews or long-time resident immigrants.The odyssey of the nine families took them from hostile Vichy France to the Alpine village of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and on to Italy, where German soldiers rather than hoped-for Allied troops awaited. Those who crossed over to Italy were either deported to Auschwitz or forced to scatter in desperate flight. Zuccotti brings to light the agonies of the refugees' unstable lives, the evolution of French policies toward Jews, the reasons behind the flight from the relative idyll ofSaint-Martin-Vésubie, and the choices that confronted those who arrived in Italy. Powerful archival evidence frames this history, while firsthand reports underscore the human cost of the nightmarish years of persecution.

Contents:

Jewish immigrants and political refugees in France, 1933-1939 : Jacques and Paulette Samson, Lya Haberman, William Blye, and Charles Roman

Jewish immigrants and political refugees in Belgium and Luxembourg before the war : Menahem Marienberg, Miriam Lowenwirth, Sigi Hart, Boris Carmeli, and Walter Marx

Flight to southern France, May and June 1940 : Sigi Hart, Menahem Marienberg, Boris Carmeli, Miriam Lowenwirth, Lya Haberman, and Walter Marx

Jewish refugees in the unoccupied zone, May 1940-August 1942 : Sigi Hart, Charles Roman, Menahem Marienberg, Walter Marx, Miriam Lowenwirth, and Boris Carmeli

Arrests in the occupied zone, 1941-1942 : Jacques and Paulette Samson

Arrests in the unoccupied zone, August 1942 : William Blye, Charles Roman, and Menahem Marienberg

Narrow escapes and subsequent arrests in the unoccupied zone, August-November 1942 : Miriam Lowenwirth, Boris Carmeli, Sigi Hart, Charles Roman, and Walter Marx

Saint-Martin-Vesubie, November 1942-September 1943

Crossing the Alps after September 8, 1943

Those who stayed behind

The first week in Italy, September 11-17, 1943

The roundup in Valdieri and Borgo San Dalmazzo, September 18, 1943

Deportation from Borgo San Dalmazzo : the Marx and Marienberg families and Boris Carmeli

Hiding in the province of Cuneo : William Blye, Charles Roman, Walter Marx, and Menahem Marienberg

Resistance : Walter Marx and William Blye

Traveling to and hiding in Florence, September and October 1943 : Miriam Lowenwirth, Sigi Hart, and Lya Haberman

Arrests and narrow escapes in Florence, November 1943 : Sigi Hart, Miriam Lowenwirth, and Lya Haberman

Traveling to and hiding in Rome, January-June 1944 : Charles Roman and Jacques Samson

Auschwitz : Sigi Hart and Boris Carmeli

After the war : Jacques and Paulette Samson, Charles Roman, Lya Haberman, and Miriam Lowenwirth

After the war : William Blye, Walter Marx, Menahem Marienberg, Sigi Hart, and Boris Carmeli

Journeys back.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-271) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-281-72275-8

9786611722753

0-300-13455-X

OCLC:

1024051649