Language:
French
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers de la Mémoire Contemporaine
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (2006-2007) 57-109; 8 (2008) 35-98
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish refugees
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
World War, 1939-1945 Deportations from Belgium
Abstract:
A prosopographical study of the 1,560 Jews who were deported from Malines to Auschwitz in July 1943 on transport no. 21. Almost half of them were Polish refugees, and the rest were from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, and Belgium. 1,200 of them were arrested in Brussels. Many had been on the run since 1938-39, others since deportations began in 1942. The biographies presented here focus on how the Jews were caught, their attempts to avoid deportation, their past experiences of exile, and the effect of Jewish survival techniques on the German persecution policies. Includes statistical assessments and historical analyses, the scope of which exceeds the individual fates and the history of this transport. Analyzes, also, the activities of the Gestapo in Brussels. New sources are presented, which clarify Jewish strategies of survival as viewed by the agents of deportation. Only 42 Jews from convoy 21 survived.
Note:
Includes illustrations on pp. 102-109, and in vol. 8 (2008) 95-98.
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