The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

By: Susan Zuccotti

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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.

Susan Zuccotti teaches modern European history at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival (Nebraska 1996), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1987.

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"This is an important work of 20th-century history. It is admirably researched, but remains lucid. It is, of necessity, sometimes harrowing, but illuminates moments of selfless heroism. Above all, it details a period of French history which has for too long been known to foreigners in only the broadest outlines... This is a valuable book deserving a wide readership."--Morning Star, 13 December, 1999 "Valuable and lucid ... Susan Zuccotti's book is admirable in many important ways."--New York Times Book Review "A book on the French occupation needs to point out that a lot of Jews were saved and a lot of Frenchmen acted well. Susan Zuccotti ... accomplishes exactly that."--Forward

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List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Jews in France before the War	p. 7
War Begins, 1939-1940	p. 31
Racial Laws, 1940-1941	p. 51
Internment Camps in the Unoccupied Zone, 1940-1941	p. 65
Roundups and Deportations, May 1941-June 1942	p. 81
The July Roundup, Paris, 1942	p. 103
Expulsions from the Unoccupied Zone, August-September 1942	p. 118
Attitudes toward the Jews, 1942	p. 138
Arrests of Foreign Jews, September 1942-February 1943	p. 157
No Holds Barred, January-December 1943	p. 172
The Final Abandonment, 1944	p. 190
Jewish Rescue Organizations	p. 210
Survival and Non-Jewish Rescuers	p. 227
Crossing Frontiers	p. 247
Jews in the Armed Resistance	p. 260
Conclusion	p. 279
Notes	p. 291
Index	p. 367
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