The Holocaust & the Jews of Marseille
Subtitle: the enforcement of anti-Semitic policies in Vichy France
By: Donna F. Ryan.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- France -- Marseille.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Marseille.; Marseille (France) -- Ethnic relations.
Other titles: Holocaust and the Jews of Marseille
Description: One-fourth of the Jews living in France - once considered an asylum for the politically dispossessed - were identified, rounded up, and deported to the death camps of eastern Europe during World War II. In this carefully documented, gripping account of the treatment and fate of French and foreign Jews in Marseille, Donna Ryan explores the extent to which the Vichy government participated in the German plans to exterminate them.

Marseille was a major French city in the Vichy Zone that had a large Jewish population; the Italians, who sometimes thwarted French administrators, never occupied Marseille; and it was a regional office of the Commissariat General aux Questions Juives and the Union Generale des Israelites de France, which could provide documentation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: The setting; title: Identifying and segregating the native Jewish community; title: The Commissariat général aux questions juives and the Marseille police at work; title: The attack on foreign Jews; title: Rescue and resistance; title: The final stage.