The Holocaust, the French and the Jews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9819331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fritz Stern, Susan Zuccotti, Deborah E Lipstadt |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 168 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20045851 |
| OpenAlex | W2163670490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
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
Ancient history · Political science · The Holocaust · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
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Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe
Vichy France and the holocaust
A Grey Site of Memory
Philanthropy or Cultural Imperialism? The Impact of American Jewish Aid in Post-Holocaust France
Elle s'appelait Sarah and the Limits of Postwar Witnessing and Memory
Refugees and Indifference
From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue
Anti-Jewish Policy and Organization of the Deportations in France and the Netherlands, 1940-1944
Foreign Jews in the western Alps (1938 – 43)
The Proof of Ignominy
From Christ-Killers to Christ-Figures
Screening les Annees Noires
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2016 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |