Language:
French
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Vingtième Siècle; revue d'histoire
Angaben zur Quelle:
119 (2013) 29-41
Keywords:
Zelman, Annette
;
Intermarriage
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
Abstract:
In light of the fate of the aspiring Jewish writer Annette Zelman, traces the two-month period of "reprisals", anarchic exercise of power, and arbitrary decisions which preceded the Final Solution in France in July 1942. Zelman was born in 1921 in Nancy, and went to Paris to study art in 1940. She befriended artists and intellectuals at Café de Flore, where she also met her fiancé, the non-Jewish poet Jean Jausion. Jausion's parents opposed the marriage and denounced Zelman, who was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1942 on order of Theodore Dannecker. She was interned as a political prisoner for a month, and deported with 65 other women to Auschwitz, where she died under unknown circumstances. Highlights the arbitrariness of her arrest, since mixed marriages were not forbidden and French Jews were usually spared. Argues that her arrest took place at a key moment in the history of the Final Solution in France: no rules had yet been established for the deportation of Jews, and the convoy of women that was sent to Auschwitz by Dannecker was the first of its kind. Zelman's fiancé was killed in the resistance, but a novel he wrote based on his personal story, "Un homme marche dans la ville", was published in 1945 and made into a film in 1949.
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