Language:
French
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Archives Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,2 (2006) 42-63
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews Economic conditions
;
Jews
Abstract:
Reports on small leather workshops and factories owned by Jews in Paris which were despoiled during the Shoah. The ground was laid in the xenophobic climate in France in the 1930s, when the right of foreigners to start new businesses was limited by law. Jewish leather and textile firms were hit harder than other areas of entrepreneurship, and French industry and trade unions did little to protect them. 80% of the leather firms listed in Aryanization files were liquidated, and the rest were sold. Having advocated liquidation at first, the general organization of the leather industry, realizing that Parisians would suffer unduly without the Jewish shoemakers, then suggested the sale of Jewish shops and the employment of Jewish shoe-repairers by a non-Jewish artisans' cooperative; however, the Germans rejected this idea. States that it is difficult to draw up a balance sheet for postwar restitution but estimates that, because the process was so complicated, very few of the small business owners received compensation.
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