Language:
French
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Le Débat; histoire, politique, société
Angaben zur Quelle:
158 (2010) 101-107
Keywords:
Masse, Pierre
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Traces the fate of the prominent French Jewish advocate and government minister, Pierre Masse, in the Shoah. In 1940, in his capacity as senator of Hérault, Masse voted for Pétain, his colleague on the Comité de Guerre (War Committee) in 1917. Trusting France and his friendship with Pétain, he returned from Hérault to occupied Paris the same year. In August 1941 he was one of 1,500 Jews of French origin arrested in retaliation for acts of armed resistance in Paris. He was interned in Drancy and subjected to humiliation. In December 1941 he and some other Jews were moved to the École militaire and led to believe that they would be executed. Soon after, Masse was transferred to Compiègne and then returned to Drancy three months later. His friends at the law courts tried to intervene in his favor, but attempts to free him were sabotaged by the antisemitic public prosecutor. In September 1942 Masse was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished.
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