Choice Of The Jews Under Vichy

, by Rayski, Adam; Bedarida, Francois; Sayers, Will

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ISBN: 9780268040215 | 0268040214
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Copyright: 7/30/2005

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Foreword

François Bédarida

Acknowledgments

Introduction

(4)

Prologue

(6)

PART 0NE. 1940-1942: The Logic of Persecution

CHAPTER ONE. The First Anti Jewish Measures: Dark Forebodings

(14)

"Who Is a Jew?"

Who Went Back to Paris?

A Shattered Community

The First Internments

The Question of Final Objective (Endziel)

CHAPTER TWO. The Consistory between Religion and Politics

(16)

First Message of Allegiance

Helbronner's Counter-Proposal

How to Manage Misfortune?

Confronting the Second Anti Jewish Law

The Census and the Honor of Being Jewish

The Experience of the Belgian Consistory

Pétain and the "Huge Jewish Fortune"

De Gaulle to Cassin: "You've come at just the right time"

CHAPTER THREE. Preliminaries to a Massacre

(15)

A Ghetto without Walls

First Refusal of the Directive

Nazi Propaganda Exploits Address Lists

Concentrate and Isolate

Social Assistance and Resistance

Protests by the Wives of the Interned

The Appeal from Moscow

CHAPTER FOUR. The Creation of the UGIF, the "Compulsory Community"

(16)

Vallat's "Worst Case Scenario": Blackmail

Marc Bloch and the Letter of the Twenty-Nine

Must We Break with Pétain?

"They are ruining the Jews"

How to Save Honor?

CHAPTER FIVE. The Yellow Star: Stigmatize, Humiliate, and Isolate the Jews

(12)

"Support the wearers of the yellow badge!"

Protestants and Catholics Begin to Question

Reactions and Exemptions

Deport 1,000 to 5,000 Jews per Month

The Eve of the Great Roundup

CHAPTER SIX. July 1942: The Great Roundup and the First Acts of Resistance

(18)

A Difficult Secret

Resonance of the Appeal against the Raids

Communications from Headquarters

The Hidden Face of the Raids

Röthke's Deficient Numbers

A Double Turning Point

A Letter to the Marshal from a Jewish Child

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Inhuman Hunt in the Southern Zone

102

(23)

Collecting the Trash

Playing the American Card

"Shades of Melancholy" in the Skies of France

Rabbi Hirschler in the Field

The Law of Numbers, or "Screening"

The Perverse Effects of Social Action

Laval Washes His Hands

File under "Vichy, Responsibility of"

Bishops' Crosses Are Raised

The Secret Letter from de Gaulle to Saliège

The Children of Vénissieux

CHAPTER EIGHT. Drancy: The Last Circle before Hell

125

(22)

The Lawyers Take Charge

"News" from Drancy

A Life That Was Vanishing

A Bundle of Yellowed Letters

The Spiral of Anguish

Escape: The Tunnel

The Jewish Administration

Attack the Convoys of Deportees?

The "Reserves" in the Camp Annexes

PART TWO. 1942-1944: To Resist or Submit?

CHAPTER NINE. "Night and Fog": The Battle against Silence

147

(15)

Evidence from the Red Cross

The Consistory Knew, But...

The Chief Rabbi's About-Face

Revelations of a German Industrialist

Should We Talk about the Gas Chambers?

To Know: A Moral Obligation

Writing: The Beginning of Memory

In Gestapo and Vichy Archives

CHAPTER TEN. People of the Shadows

162

(14)

Clandestinity: The Condition of Survival

The Hidden Face of Daily Life

An Unknown Page from the Life of Isaac Schneerson

The Void around Legal Organizations

The Strange Underground Universe of Children

Keeping the Faith

Real and False Baptisms

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Do Not Forget the Children

176

(17)

The Inevitable Turning Point

Formal Notice by Vaad Hatsala

Memories of...Childhood

The Protestant Plateau

A Sanctuary for the Persecuted?

Other Rescue Organizations

An Assessment of the War on Children

CHAPTER TWELVE. "Intermezzo," or the Italian Reprieve

193

(15)

From Refuge into Trap

Berlin and Vichy Take Aim at Count Ciano

Twenty Thousand Jews To Be Evacuated

The Brunner Commando in Action

The Agencies Caught Unprepared

Jewish Youth React

Testimony of the First Escapee from Auschwitz

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Jewish Perceptions of the War

208

(13)

A Jewish State without Territory

A "Greater Israel" with the Aid of Nazi Germany

Vichy and the Zionist Cause

For a "Christian Antisemitism"

Polemics on the Nature of the War

Translating Perceptions into Strategy

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. 1943: By the Light of Flames from the Ghetto

221

(21)

The Raid on Rue Sainte-Catherine in Lyon

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Uprisings in Jewish History

Reorganization of the Jewish Section"

The UGIF' To Be or Not to Be

Recognition of Failure

Vichy's Last Hope: The Milice

New Methods for Jew-Hunting

Himmler: Put an End to the Foreign Jewish Resistance"

From the Perspective of the End of the War

The Marcel Langer Brigade

Combat Groups in Lyon

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Jews, French and Resistant

242

(17)

Vichy's Intentional Ambivalence

Abandoned by Their Brothers?

From Mistrust to Resistance

Lucien Vidal-Naquet: A Bourgeois Republican

The Jewish Identity of Marc Bloch

Georges Friedmann: The Shock of October 1940

"Israelite" and Jew: Denise Baumann and Other Rebels

The MOI: A Hand Outstretched to French Jews

How Vichy Is Ruining French Jews

Days of Joy and Sadness in Algiers

History's Lesson

CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Jewish Scouts Take Up Arms

259

(13)

The Origins of the Jewish Army

The "Blue and White" Squadron

"Cooperate and Infiltrate"

The Visionaries of the Jewish Army

The Collapse of the MLN

Why Go to London?

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Jewish Resistance in All Its Variety

272

(14)

The Common Ground of the Jewish Resistance

Rewriting the History of the Resistance?

The Various Functions of Armed Struggle

The Weight of the Past

Portrait of a Jew in the Resistance: Vladimir Jankélévitch

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. CRIF: Constructing the Future in the Shadow of Death

286

(14)

Vichy Does Not Respond

Orders from Berlin: Arrest Helbronner

The Outline of the Postwar Community

Seven Versions of the "Charter"

The Transformation of Israelite into Jew

The New Face of the Community

CHAPTER NINETEEN. A Time for All Fears and All Hopes

300

(13)

The Crime at Rillieux

The Massacre at Guerry

The Testament of Samy Klein

The Charnel Pits of Bron

In Paris, Brunner Liquidates the UGIF Children's Centers

Inquest into the Drama

Suicidal Behavior

The End: "Remove your stars!"

CONCLUSION. The Weight of the Present and of the Future

313

(4)

AFTERWORD. The Twenty-First Century

317

(4)

Interviews and Testimony

321

(2)

Acronyms of Agencies, Organizations, and Movements

323

(4)

Notes

327

(48)

Index

375

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