The Holocaust, the French, and the Jewsø 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. |
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THE HOLOCAUST, THE FRENCH, AND THE JEWS
User Review - KirkusIn a vividly narrated reexamination of the historical record, Zuccotti (History/Barnard; Italians and the Holocaust, 1987) tells the horrifying story of the fate of French Jews at the hands of the ... Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictZuccotti ( The Italians and the Holocaust , LJ 2/15/87) has written another fine, highly readable Holocaust study. While 250,000 (or 76 percent) of France's Jews survived the war, they survived ... Read full review
Contents
Jews in France before the War | 7 |
War Begins 19391940 | 31 |
Racial Laws 19401941 | 51 |
Internment Camps in the Unoccupied Zone | 65 |
Roundups and Deportations | 81 |
The July Roundup Paris 1942 | 103 |
Expulsions from the Unoccupied Zone | 118 |
Attitudes toward the Jews 1942 | 138 |
Arrests of Foreign Jews | 157 |
No Holds Barred JanuaryDecember 1943 | 172 |
The Final Abandonment 1944 | 190 |
Jewish Rescue Organizations | 210 |
Survival and NonJewish Rescuers | 227 |
Crossing Frontiers | 247 |
Jews in the Armed Resistance | 260 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews Bison books |
| Author | Susan Zuccotti |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | U of Nebraska Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0803299141, 9780803299146 |
| Length | 383 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / France History / Holocaust |
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