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Hunting down the Jews : Vichy, the Nazis, and Mafia collaborators in Provence, 1942-1944

Author: Isaac Lewendel; Bernard Weisz; Serge Klarsfeld
Publisher: New York : Enigma Books, ©2011.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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One man's story of his Jewish mother, against the backdrop of Nazi and Vichy anti-Semitic policy 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 65 years and has carefully reconstructed the history of the Holocaust in Provence, the Vaucluse, and its main city, Avignon. Germany  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Isaac Lewendel; Bernard Weisz; Serge Klarsfeld
ISBN: 9781936274314 1936274310
OCLC Number: 709681228
Notes: Issued also as an ebook.
Description: xxxiv, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents: The "French solution" to the Jewish question in the Vaucluse --
The Germans and their associates: the "German solution" to the Jewish question in the Vaucluse --
Shades of gray: fifteen cases --
Summing up the effectiveness of the anti-semitic violence --
SS Commander Rolf Muhler.
Other Titles: Vichy, the Nazis, and Mafia collaborators in Provence, 1942-1944
Responsibility: Isaac Levendel and Bernard Weisz ; [preface by Serge Klarsfeld].

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Germany invaded southern France in November 1942 and the German police made abundant use of freelance Jew hunters, who eagerly seized the opportunity. The details of Nazi and Vichy anti-Semitic  Read more...

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