Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah
Angaben zur Quelle:
179 (2003) 9-73
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
Examines the role of the local administration of Liège in the wartime persecution of the city's 2,560 Jews, 9% of whom were Belgian citizens. Although known as the stronghold of resistance in Belgium, Liège and its socialist mayor, Joseph Bologne, meticulously applied 18 German anti-Jewish ordinances between 1940-42. When Jews were not involved, the mayor opposed those German orders which conflicted with the Belgian constitution. He expressed some reservations about the Jews having to wear yellow badges, but did nothing to stop it. He registered the local Jews, handed their names over to the Germans, and implemented the policy of Aryanization, as required by the occupier. In 1941 the newly created Association des Juifs de Belgique was forced to carry out a census, through which Jews were summoned for deportation from July 1942 on. By October, 500 Jews had been deported, 30 of them members of the AJB staff. Altogether, 700 Jews were deported from Liège during the Shoah. Pp. 50-71 contain facsimiles of documents, photographs, and maps.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"ילקוט מורשת" פב (תשסז) 39-70.
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