Nazi labour camps in Paris : Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944
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Nazi labour camps in Paris : Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944
Berghahn Books, c2011 c2003
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Des camps dans Paris
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the Levitan furniture store building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of three satellite camps (Levitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris. Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners spent a few weeks to a year in one of these buildings, previously been used to store furniture, and were subjected to forced labor. Although the history of the persecution and deportation of France's Jews is well known, the three Parisian satellite camps have been subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This lack of attention by the most authoritative voices on the subject can perhaps be explained by the absence of a collective memory or by the marginal status of the Parisian detainees - the spouses of Aryans, wives of prisoners of war, half-Jews. Still, the Parisian camps did, and continue to this day, lack simple and straightforward descriptions. This book is a much needed study of these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events, expressing this memory remains a complex, sometimes painful process, and speaking about it a struggle.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Denise Weill
Introduction
Chapter 1. 'Operation Furniture'
Chapter 2. The Implementation of 'Operation Furniture'
Chapter 3. The Creation of the Parisian Camps
Chapter 4. Forced labour in Paris
Chapter 5. A place of fragile safety
Chapter 6. Everyday life
Chapter 7. The end of the Parisian camps
Chapter 8. The Silence of History
Conclusion: Around a Memory Hole
Appendix
References
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