Hunting down the Jews : Vichy, the Nazis, and Mafia Collaborators in Provence, 1942-1944
ISBN: 9781936274314 | 1936274310
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 2/28/2012
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A gripping account of the Holocaust in southern France.
Sarah Lewendel, a Jewish woman originally from Poland, disappeared in the vortex of the Nazi extermination machine on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Her son has lived with this tragedy for over sixty-five years and has carefully reconstructed the history of the Holocaust in Provence, the Vaucluse, and its main city, Avignon. Germany invaded southern France in November 1942 and the German police made abundant use of freelance Jew hunters, who eagerly seized the opportuni... MORE
Sarah Lewendel, a Jewish woman originally from Poland, disappeared in the vortex of the Nazi extermination machine on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Her son has lived with this tragedy for over sixty-five years and has carefully reconstructed the history of the Holocaust in Provence, the Vaucluse, and its main city, Avignon. Germany invaded southern France in November 1942 and the German police made abundant use of freelance Jew hunters, who eagerly seized the opportuni... MORE
| Maps, Chronology, Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Foreword: My Libération | p. xx |
| Introduction: From State Anti-Semitism to Mob Rule | p. xxv |
| The "French Solution" to the Jewish Question in the Vaucluse | p. 1 |
| The Forgotten Jews of 1942 | p. 5 |
| The CGQJ: Legalized Looting | p. 18 |
| Henri de Camaret and His Network: The CGQJ Delegate for the Vaucluse | p. 23 | ... MORE
| The Trial of Jean Lebon | p. 52 |
| A State-Sponsored Network of Profiteers of Jewish Assets | p. 95 |
| Régis d'Oléon, President of the "Légion Française des Combattants" of the Vaucluse | p. 113 |
| The Germans and Their Associates: The "German Solution" to the Jewish Question in the Vaucluse | p. 127 |
| The Purest Riffraff Around | p. 131 |
| Wilhelm Müller's Favorites | p. 166 |
| The Palmieri Gang: Serving the SiPo-SD | p. 223 |
| Shades of Gray: Fifteen Cases | p. 269 |
| Summing Up the Effectiveness of Anti-Semitic Violence | p. 303 |
| SS Commander Rolf Mühler | p. 323 |
| Epilogue: In Front of the Barracks... | p. 346 |
| Appendices | p. 348 |
| Notes | p. 355 |
| Index | p. 368 |
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