Download or read book Le sauvetage des enfants juifs pendant l Occupation dans les maisons de l OSE 1938 1945 written by Katy Hazan and published by Somogy éditions d'art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps the activities of the OSE, especially its establishment of children's homes in France, between 1938-45. Its history sheds light on the relentless progress of Nazi persecution throughout France. Month by month, year by year, from Montmorency to the Creuse and the Italian occupation zone, the homes changed their locations and status. Argues that the successful rescue of thousands of Jewish children during the Shoah was the result of the OSE's decision to open children's homes already in 1938 for refugee children from Germany and Austria. The OSE was then prompt in responding to the political situation and, from 1940 on, opened more than ten homes in the South of France. It removed many children from French internment camps between 1941-42, but when OSE leaders realized that the children were in danger, they changed tactics. In 1943 the assocation went underground, closing its children's homes and providing a network of hiding places for the children. Concludes that, over the years, thousands of children passed through OSE homes, but these represented only one stage in the overall rescue strategy of the welfare organization.
Download or read book The Survival of the Jews in France 1940 44 written by Jacques Semelin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it-ones neglected by historians. In fact, 75% of France's Jews escaped the extermination, while 45% of the Jews of Belgium perished, and in the Netherlands only 20% survived. The Nazis were determined to destroy the Jews across Europe, and the Vichy regime collaborated in their deportation from France. So what is the meaning of this French exception? Jacques Semelin sheds light on this 'French enigma', painting a radically unfamiliar view of occupied France. His is a rich, even-handed portrait of a complex and changing society, one where helping and informing on one's neighbours went hand in hand; and where small gestures of solidarity sat comfortably with anti-Semitism. Without shying away from the horror of the Holocaust's crimes, this seminal work adds a fresh perspective to our history of the Second World War.
Download or read book Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children written by Frank Jacob and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernst Papanek was an Austrian pedagogue who worked with Jewish refugee children in France in 1939/40, before he was forced to leave to the United States. There, he nevertheless continued his work to point out the impact of war, genocide and displacement on children, who were often forgotten in major discussions about the war and the losses it had created. This volume provides a short biographical outline of Papanek and a theoretical discussion about the impact of war and genocide on children who are forced out of their lives and who were not only physically displaced as a consequence. The second part of the book assembles some of Papanek's important texts about the children he had worked with and for, to make his thoughts and important considerations accessible for a broader academic and non-academic public alike.
Download or read book Internment Refugee Camps written by Gabriele Anderl and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors to this book facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries - while considering the specific historical contexts. Moreover, they highlight the nexus of relationships and agencies which constitute the camps in question as transitory spaces. The contributions consist of analyses of local phenomena or case studies as well as comparative engagements from an international and/or historical perspective.
Download or read book Suzanne s Children written by Anne Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—the nail-biting drama of Suzanne Spaak, who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz “vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality” (The Wall Street Journal). Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country’s leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renée Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life’s purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined the Resistance. She used her fortune and social status to enlist allies among wealthy Parisians and church groups. Then, under the eyes of the Gestapo, Suzanne and women from the Jewish and Christian resistance groups “kidnapped” hundreds of Jewish children to save them from the gas chambers. Suzanne’s Children is the “dogged…page-turning account” (Kirkus Reviews) of this incredible story of courage in the face of evil. “Anne Nelson is superb at showing the upheavals in Europe since WWI through vivid, illuminating details…and she also masterfully describes the incremental changes in the Jews’ plight under the Occupation” (Booklist). It was during the final year of the Occupation when Suzanne was caught in the Gestapo dragnet that was pursuing a Soviet agent she had aided. She was executed shortly before the liberation of Paris. Suzanne Spaak is honored in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations. Nelson’s “heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular” (Library Journal).
Download or read book The Jews of Modern France written by Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities synthesizes much of the original research on modern French Jewish history published over the last decade. Themes include Jewish self-representation and discursive frameworks, cultural continuity and rupture from the eve of emancipation to the contemporary period, and the impact of France's role as a colonial power. This volume also explores the overlapping boundaries between the very categories of "Jewish" and "French." As a whole, this volume focuses on the shifting boundaries between inner-directed and outer-directed Jewish concerns, behaviors, and attitudes in France over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors highlight the fluidity of French Jewish identity, demonstrating that there is no fine line between communal insider and outsider or between an internal and external Jewish concern.
Download or read book Spain the Second World War and the Holocaust written by Sara J. Brenneis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is the first comprehensive historical and cultural study of Spain's unique relationship to this turbulent historical period.
Download or read book Amazing Story of Alexander Glasberg written by Nick Lampert and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Alexander Glasberg? A Jewish emigre from the former Russian empire who settled in France in 1932 and became a Catholic priest. A Yiddish-speaking polyglot. A man of astonishing audacity who saved many Jews during the German occupation. After narrowly escaping from the clutches of the Gestapo in Lyon in 1942, he appeared under an assumed name as a parish priest in south-west France, where he joined the local Resistance. After the Liberation he moved to Paris and set up an entirely secular organisation, COS, to help people to find their feet in France after the traumas of the war. It provided a unique combination of services for asylum-seekers, for the elderly and for the disabled. Forty years after the death of the founder in 1981, the COS Alexander Glasberg Foundation is much bigger but remains strikingly faithful to the ideals which inspired its beginnings. Abbe Glasberg was a free spirit who evaded all conventional boxes. A priest outside the Church. An ardent Francophile yet passionate defender of refugees. A Zionist yet strong supporter of the Palestinian people. A sociable yet also secretive figure. This book traces key moments in his remarkable life and sheds light on a mesmerising personality.
Download or read book School Photos in Liquid Time written by Marianne Hirsch and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion. In Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer’s deft analysis, school photographs reveal connections between the histories of persecuted subjects in different national and imperial centers. Exploring what this ubiquitous and mundane but understudied genre tells us about domination as well as resistance, the authors examine school photos as documents of social life and agents of transformation. They place them in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who reframe, remediate, and elucidate them. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photos in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, revealing the capacity of past and present actors to disrupt and reinvent them.
Download or read book Rire le jour pleurer la nuit written by Katy Hazan and published by Calmann-Lévy. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dès 1939, de nombreux enfants d’étrangers juifs, surtout allemands, sont exilés en France et séparés de leurs parents. Jusqu’à novembre 1943, le château de Chabannes, situé dans la Creuse, accueille une colonie d’enfants juifs âgés de 5 à 17 ans, pris en charge par l’OEuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), une organisation médico-sociale juive née au début du siècle. En 1941, à l’occasion des deux ans d’existence de la maison, en guise de projet pédagogique, le directeur, Félix Chevrier, propose aux enfants de rédiger un journal. Illustré par des dessins, des lettres, des chansons, des poèmes et des photographies, ce journal raconte la vie quotidienne du château jusqu’en mai 1942. Courte période, mais intense parenthèse, qui dans la chronologie de la guerre correspond à un moment de répit pour les Juifs de la zone libre. Ce livre, qui contient la transcription intégrale du journal, est un document historique exceptionnel et émouvant. À travers les histoires intimes d’enfants juifs en France sous l’Occupation, il nous raconte un pan méconnu de l’histoire de la Shoah dans notre pays.
Download or read book After Those Fifty Years written by John Freund and published by John Freund. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Those Fifty Years: Memoirs of the Birkenau Boys tells the stories of the approximately ninety teenage boys who were selected in July 1944 from the so-called "Family Camp" in Birkenau to work in Auschwitz, shortly before the murder of those remaining in the Family Camp. In the mid-1980's, the surviving "Birkenau Boys" began to correspond, reunite, and record their memories of their unusual common experience from nearly fifty years earlier. Originally published in paperback in 1992 and revised in 1998 and 2008, this digital edition includes the biographies of the Birkenau Boys (detailing prewar, wartime and postwar histories), reflections, photos, and illustrations as published in the second revised edition.
Download or read book Le sauvetage des enfants juifs par l OSE written by Georges Garel and published by Iggybook. This book was released on 2020-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Garel, un nom, un symbole, un « mentsch » dit-on en yiddish pour un homme au sens le plus noble du terme. Un homme qui décide de mettre sa vie au service des enfants juifs pourchassés durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Grâce au réseau clandestin qu'il met en place au sein de l'OEuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), Georges Garel devient la providence de nombre d'entre eux, promis à une mort certaine par les nazis et leurs collaborateurs. La réédition de ses mémoires de guerre offre au lecteur un document de référence, une radiographie précise et détaillée de l'OSE, dans son organisation et son action. L'ensemble des annotations de l'historienne Katy Hazan apporte une compréhension plus précise du contexte dans lequel ces mémoires s'inscrivent, compréhension prolongée par les apports récents de l'historiographie qu'elle développe dans son étude sur les réseaux de sauvetage de l'OSE, région par région. Les textes de Lili Garel, l'épouse de Georges, de ses sept enfants et deux petits-enfants complètent le portait de l'homme « hors pair » qui se dégage de ces mémoires, celui d'un homme, modeste, courageux, droit, qui a façonné durablement le sens de l'action de OSE.
Download or read book The Erl King written by Michel Tournier and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit - a man without a sense of belonging until he finds himself a prisoner of war, and then a teacher, and then the 'ogre' of a Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn.
Download or read book Vichy written by Eric Conan and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
Download or read book Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis written by Patrick Henry and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume puts to rest the myth that the Jews went passively to the slaughter like sheep. Indeed Jews resisted in every Nazi-occupied country - in the forests, the ghettos, and the concentration camps.The essays presented here consider Jewish resistance to be resistance by Jewish persons in specifically Jewish groups, or by Jewish persons working within non-Jewish organizations. Resistance could be armed revolt; flight; the rescue of targeted individuals by concealment in non-Jewish homes, farms, and institutions; or by the smuggling of Jews into countries where Jews were not objects of Nazi persecution. Other forms of resistance include every act that Jewish people carried out to fight against the dehumanizing agenda of the Nazis - acts such as smuggling food, clothing, and medicine into the ghettos, putting on plays, reading poetry, organizing orchestras and art exhibits, forming schools, leaving diaries, and praying. These attempts to remain physically, intellectually, culturally, morally, and theologically alive constituted resistance to Nazi oppression, which was designed to demolish individuals, destroy their soul, and obliterate their desire to live.
Download or read book A Frequency Dictionary of French written by Deryle Lonsdale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on a 23-million-word corpus of French which includes written and spoken material both from France and overseas, this dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence, its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are thematically-organized lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing, and family terms. An engaging and highly useful resource, the Frequency Dictionary of French will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of French vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415775311 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work. Deryle Lonsdale is Associate Professor in the Linguistics and English Language Department at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah). Yvon Le Bras is Associate Professor of French and Department Chair of the French and Italian Department at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah).
