The Survival Of The Jews In France 1940 44

Author : Jacques Semelin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190057998
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940 - 44 written by Jacques Semelin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it-ones neglected by historians. In fact, 75% of France's Jews escaped the extermination, while 45% of the Jews of Belgium perished, and in the Netherlands only 20% survived. The Nazis were determined to destroy the Jews across Europe, and the Vichy regime collaborated in their deportation from France. So what is the meaning of this French exception? Jacques Semelin sheds light on this 'French enigma', painting a radically unfamiliar view of occupied France. His is a rich, even-handed portrait of a complex and changing society, one where helping and informing on one's neighbours went hand in hand; and where small gestures of solidarity sat comfortably with anti-Semitism. Without shying away from the horror of the Holocaust's crimes, this seminal work adds a fresh perspective to our history of the Second World War.

Author : Jacques Sémelin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190943257
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survival of the Jews in France written by Jacques Sémelin and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned historian of genocide reconsiders French responses to the Nazis' attempt to exterminate France's Jewish population.

Author : Anny Latour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Resistance in France, 1940-1944 written by Anny Latour and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anny Latour was an active member of the Jewish Resistance in France. She manufactured forged identity papers, transported arms, and smuggled children out of danger to safe havens. Out of 350,000 Jew in France, about 90,000 fell victims of the Holocaust. The toll would have been much higher had it not been for the well organized Resistance organized by the Jews along with the French Resistance. Tens of thousands of Jewish children were saved through the underground. A Jewish fighting force, the Jewish Army even defeated a German garrison at Gastres. Latour's saga of the heroic exploits, escapes, devotion and sacrifice are based on hundreds of personal accounts with survivors and eyewitnesses and research.

Author : Jacques Semelin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190057947
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940 - 44 written by Jacques Semelin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it-ones neglected by historians. In fact, 75% of France's Jews escaped the extermination, while 45% of the Jews of Belgium perished, and in the Netherlands only 20% survived. The Nazis were determined to destroy the Jews across Europe, and the Vichy regime collaborated in their deportation from France. So what is the meaning of this French exception? Jacques Semelin sheds light on this 'French enigma', painting a radically unfamiliar view of occupied France. His is a rich, even-handed portrait of a complex and changing society, one where helping and informing on one's neighbours went hand in hand; and where small gestures of solidarity sat comfortably with anti-Semitism. Without shying away from the horror of the Holocaust's crimes, this seminal work adds a fresh perspective to our history of the Second World War.

Author : Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207215
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Persecution written by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left for voicing political opposition. During the Holocaust, tens of thousands of European Jews turned to individual and collective petitions in the face of state-sponsored violence. This volume offers the first extensive analysis of petitions authored by Jews in nations ruled by the Nazis and their allies. It demonstrates their underappreciated value as a historical source and reveals the many attempts of European Jews to resist intensifying persecution and actively struggle for survival.

Author : Jacques Adler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195043065
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution written by Jacques Adler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Jacques Adler, a former member of the French resistance, asks: "Are people powerless when confronted with a State determined to destroy them? Why didn't more Jews survive the Holocaust? How did we survive? Did we, the survivors, do all that we could, at the time, to help more people survive?" In answering these questions, Adler examines the diverse Jewish organizations that existed in Paris during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. The first part of the book analyzes the national composition of the Jewish population, its expropriation and daily life. The remaining chapters discuss the roles, activities, and policies of various Jewish organizations as they supported Jews in their search for survival, alerted the non-Jewish population to the terrible threat faced by every Jewish family, and acted as representatives of the Jewish people--a role that led to inevitable administrative cooperation with the Nazis and Vichy. Combining careful scholarship with a survivor's zeal to set the record straight, Adler gives an insider's account of resistance members, whose determination was born of the pain and anger that came from the loss of loved ones, whose political ideology sustained them even when they faced the threat of starvation and the loneliness of clandestine existence, and whose anguish was all the more intense because they belonged to that community in Paris that was selected as fodder for the "Final Solution." Thoroughly researched and drawing upon previously unavailable materials, Adler presents an important portrait of communal solidarity and communal conflict, of heroes and those whose courage failed.

Author : Bertram M. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501715877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Tourism written by Bertram M. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book addresses the linkages between tourism and war, focusing on tourism by German personnel and French civilians during the Second World War and on postwar memory tourism"--

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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescue and Resistance written by and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Macmillan Profiles series is a collection of volumes featuring profiles of famous people, places and historical events. This text profiles heroes and activists of the Holocaust, including Elie Wiesel, Oskar Schindler, Simon Wiesenthal, Primo Levi, Anne Frank and Raoul Wallenberg, as well as soldiers, Partisans, ghetto leaders, diplomats and ordinary citizens who fought German aggression and risked their lives to save Jews.

Author : Patrick Henry
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813225892
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis written by Patrick Henry and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume puts to rest the myth that the Jews went passively to the slaughter like sheep. Indeed Jews resisted in every Nazi-occupied country - in the forests, the ghettos, and the concentration camps.The essays presented here consider Jewish resistance to be resistance by Jewish persons in specifically Jewish groups, or by Jewish persons working within non-Jewish organizations. Resistance could be armed revolt; flight; the rescue of targeted individuals by concealment in non-Jewish homes, farms, and institutions; or by the smuggling of Jews into countries where Jews were not objects of Nazi persecution. Other forms of resistance include every act that Jewish people carried out to fight against the dehumanizing agenda of the Nazis - acts such as smuggling food, clothing, and medicine into the ghettos, putting on plays, reading poetry, organizing orchestras and art exhibits, forming schools, leaving diaries, and praying. These attempts to remain physically, intellectually, culturally, morally, and theologically alive constituted resistance to Nazi oppression, which was designed to demolish individuals, destroy their soul, and obliterate their desire to live.

Author : Anny Latour
Publisher : Unites States Holocaust
ISBN 13 : 9780805250251
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Resistance in France, 1940 to 1944 written by Anny Latour and published by Unites States Holocaust. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Jewish resistance fighters in France saved thousands with forged identity papers, sabotaged the German war effort, and fought against Nazi forces