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France Between The Warsclick Here to Copy A Link to This Section Link Copied

During the interwar period, France was one of the more liberal countries in welcoming Jewish immigrants, many of them from eastern Europe. After World War I, thousands of Jews viewed France as a European land of equality and opportunity and helped to make its capital, Paris, a thriving center of Jewish cultural life. In the 1930s, however, unnerved...

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When the Third Republic collapsed under German attack in the early summer of 1940, there were approximately 350,000 Jews in France. Less than half of them were French citizens. Many of these individuals were refugees who had fled Nazi persecution in the Third Reich; Jews and other endangered persons fleeing oppression in German-occupied Belgium, Lu...

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Until November 1942, southern and eastern France remained unoccupied. A French collaborationist government, headquartered in the city of Vichy, in the Auvergne, governed unoccupied France. In July 1940, the French National Assembly voted to suspend the constitution of the Third Republic and placed the new “Vichy regime” under the leadership of the ...

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Following the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, German authorities prepared for the deportation of Jews from France and other western European countries. The appointment of Oberg in March 1942 accelerated the process: an initial transport of more than 1,000 Jews left from Compiègne for Auschwitz on March 27, 1942. On May 29, 1942, German auth...

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In November 1942, German troops occupied Vichy's formerly “free zone.” As German allies, Italian forces had occupied the southeastern corner of France in 1940. As elsewhere in territories they controlled, Italian authorities refused to enforce antisemitic legislation seriously, or to hand over Jews to Germans officials, despite repeated German dema...

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German authorities reinstituted transports of Jews from France in January 1943 and continued the deportations until August 1944. In all, some 77,000 Jews living on French territory perished in concentration camps and killing centers—the overwhelming majority of them at Auschwitz—or died in detention on French soil. One third of these victims were F...

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The Allied landing in Normandyon June 6, 1944, initiated the liberation of France. The French Résistance played a significant role in aiding Allied armies in this effort. Members of the French resistance movement came from every economic milieu and from every element of the political spectrum: conservative nationalists; Catholic and Protestant cler...

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Where was the Jewish army founded?

In France, the "Armée Juive" (Jewish Army), a French Jewish partisan group, was founded in Toulouse in January 1942. Composed of members of Zionist youth movements, the Jewish Army operated in and around Toulouse, Nice, Lyon, and Paris.

Did the organization Juive de combat save French Jewry?

The Organization Juive de Combat, which played a crucial role in saving part of French Jewry, is almost absent from formal and public discourse. Emphasis is instead placed on the role of the French Righteous Gentiles, who are credited with saving three-quarters of the French Jewish community.

How many Jews remained in France after the Holocaust?

In the wake of the Holocaust, around 180,000 Jews remained in France, many of whom were refugees from Eastern Europe who either could not or would not return to their former home countries.

Why is the Jewish resistance ignored in France?

Nevertheless, the topic of the Jewish Resistance (Organisation Juive de Combat, OJC) in France is almost totally ignored. To a large extent, this is attributable to political considerations and to deep-rooted perceptions about the Jews and the state of Israel.

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Jewish Army France

Jewish Army France. (Armee Juive



THE PARTICIPATION OF THE JEWS OF FRANCE IN THE GREAT

to the provost of the army. Page 14. 44 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK. (e) Infantry.—Lieutenant- 



Jews Soldiering

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675484



The Participation of Jews in the Allied Armies Lucien Steinberg (Paris)

raised first in France and then in the Middle East and Britain. As is known there was a large number of Jewish soldiers in all units of the. Polish Army.



France

German army invaded France itself in May 1940. In June the French citizens



At Issue: The Jewish Resistance in France during World War II: The

were formed especially to help the Jews in France. The most prominent were the Jewish Scouts (EIF) the Jewish Army (AJ)



Mass Culture Mass Parliamentary Politics

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2164539



Polonski Abraham

1913) A founder of the French Jewish underground. Born in Russia



Shimon Peres and the French-Israeli Alliance 1954-9

between Israel and France the Jewish state's first ally. France did not recognize Israel until 21 May 1949



Is a Military Coup Possible in Israel? Israel and French-Algeria in

The French Army resorted to force of arms in order to dispel the notion that Algeria and France were not one and the same. In like manner Israel has never