Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Yale French Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
85 (1994) 135-151
Keywords:
Drancy (Internment camp)
;
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Jews Identity
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Explores the first eyewitness accounts of French Jewish survivors (e.g. Georges Wellers, Guy Kohen) aiming to reveal how various Jewish milieus reacted to the persecutions, if they were aware that an anti-Jewish genocide was being waged, if there was any change in their relationship to France, and how they perceived their Jewish identity in the new circumstances. Remarks that the perception of the Holocaust among the Drancy inmates was belated and incomplete due to their inability to grasp that they could belong to a Jewish collective and not to the "French nation." The Vichy regime had not frayed their bond with France and their patriotism. A dramatic change in this perception occurred only during the Six-Day-War (1967), which scuttled the belief that they could be fully assimilated.
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