Language:
French
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Genèses; sciences sociales et histoire
Angaben zur Quelle:
61 (2005) 47-69
Keywords:
Bassano family
;
Drancy (Internment camp)
;
Austerlitz (concentration camp)
;
Lévitan (concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
A sociological study of the silence concerning the three internment camps - Austerlitz, Bassano, and Lévitan - that operated in Paris between 1943-44. "Undeportable" half-Jews, Jews married to Aryans, and Jewish spouses of Jewish POWs were sent to these camps from Drancy to process booty from homes of deported Jews, as part of the Möbelaktion. Ca. 20% of the 800 inmates were eventually deported. Despite the large number of survivors, it was only in the 1990s that the "gap in memory" concerning the Parisian camps began to close. Based on Maurice Halbwachs' and Roger Bastide's theories on the connection between memory and collective identification, argues that the gap occurred because there was no system that could carry the memory of these camps. Marginal when it came to identification with Judaism, and marginal in relation to the deportees, the majority of former inmates did not find their place within extant frameworks. Due to their isolation and marginalization, their late testimonies also tend to be historical rather than personal. Concludes that the author's own research has widened the "sphere of the speakable".
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