Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,2 (2007) 249-274
Schlagwort(e):
Vigée, Claude
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
Kurzfassung:
The poet Claude Vigée (né Claude Strauss) grew up in an assimilated bourgeois family in a small factory town in Alsace; as a teenager, he moved with his mother to Strasbourg. After the Nazi invasion, he fled to Toulouse. The publication of the anti-Jewish statute of October 1940 destroyed the 19-year-old Claude's faith in France and its promise of equality for all its citizens. He joined the Jewish resistance movement AJ (Mouvement national d'Action juive, later Armée juive), one of whose centers was in Toulouse. At the time it was active mainly in the rescue of Jews; ideologically it was Zionist and against the assimilation that had so tragically failed. Claude published his writings in underground journals under the pseudonym Vigée (vie j'ai), which he subsequently adopted as his legal name. His writings, and a letter of protest against the anti-Jewish measures of the Vichy regime which he sent to Pétain, drew unfavorable attention and he was in danger of imprisonment and deportation. He fled to the U.S. in the fall of 1942, and in 1960 immigrated to Israel.
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