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Executive editors: Katja Happe, Michael Mayer, and Maja Peers, with Jean-Marc Dreyfus; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, and Dorothy Mas In April-May 1940 the German Wehrmacht invaded Northern and Western Europe. The subsequent occupation of Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France brought the Jewish population of these countries – both established residents and refugees – under German control. From autumn 1941 in Luxembourg and from spring/summer 1942 in Belgium, the Netherlands and occupied France, Jews were required to wear the ‘Jewish star’ and many were subjected to forced labour. By mid-1942, depor...
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Presents the story of an orphanage in Izieu, France that sheltered Jewish children from all over Europe who had escaped Nazi persecution. In 1944, one month before World War II ended, the Gestapo sent soldiers to the ophanage to arrest all the children and caretakers. Those arrested were taken to Auschwitz for immediate execution. The events are recounted through the stories of those who escaped the Nazi raid.
A comprehensive documentation of the deportation of the Jewish children from the children's home in Izieu (southern France) to extermination camps. Surveys the activities of Klaus Barbie, who ordered the liquidation of the 43 children and of the staff of the home on 6 April 1944. Describes efforts made by Jewish organizations, in 1942 and 1944, to rescue these children. Includes biographies of all the children. Relates, also, Barbie's arrest and his trial in Lyon. Includes official documents.
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Im Mai 1940 überfiel die Deutsche Wehrmacht die Staaten Nord- und Westeuropas und besetzte sie weitgehend. Einheimische und die bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt nach Norwegen, in die Niederlande, nach Belgien, Luxemburg oder Frankreich geflüchteten Juden fielen jetzt unter deutsche Herrschaft. 1942 waren die Juden in allen Ländern Westeuropas zum Tragen des "Judensterns" verpflichtet, Zwangsarbeit war für Juden die Regel. In Frankreich und Luxemburg hatten die Deportationen in die Gettos und Vernichtungslager bereits begonnen, in den anderen Ländern standen sie unmittelbar bevor. Dieser Band dokumentiert für die Zeit vom deutschen Einmarsch bis Mitte 1942 die schrittweise Entrechtung der Juden,...