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The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution: Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944
Contributor(s): Adler, Jacques (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195043065     ISBN-13: 9780195043068
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Published: October 1989
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Annotation: In this work Jacques Adler, a former member of the French resistance, asks: "Are people powerless when confronted with a State determined to destroy them? Why didn't more Jews survive the Holocaust? How did we survive? Did we, the survivors, do all that we could, at the time, to help more
people survive?" In answering these questions, Adler examines the diverse Jewish organizations that existed in Paris during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. The first part of the book analyzes the national composition of the Jewish population, its expropriation and daily life. The remaining
chapters discuss the roles, activities, and policies of various Jewish organizations as they supported Jews in their search for survival, alerted the non-Jewish population to the terrible threat faced by every Jewish family, and acted as representatives of the Jewish people--a role that led to
inevitable administrative cooperation with the Nazis and Vichy.
Combining careful scholarship with a survivor's zeal to set the record straight, Adler gives an insider's account of resistance members, whose determination was born of the pain and anger that came from the loss of loved ones, whose political ideology sustained them even when they faced the
threat of starvation and the loneliness of clandestine existence, and whose anguish was all the more intense because they belonged to that community in Paris that was selected as fodder for the "Final Solution." Thoroughly researched and drawing upon previously unavailable materials, Adler presents
an important portrait of communal solidarity and communal conflict, of heroes and those whose courage failed.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Holocaust
- History | Europe - France
- History | Military - World War Ii
Dewey: 940.531
LCCN: 86031302
Series: Studies in Jewish History
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.18" W x 9.19" L (1.07 lbs) 334 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Cultural Region - French
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Topical - Holocaust
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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In this work Jacques Adler, a former member of the French resistance, asks: Are people powerless when confronted with a State determined to destroy them? Why didn't more Jews survive the Holocaust? How did we survive? Did we, the survivors, do all that we could, at the time, to help more
people survive? In answering these questions, Adler examines the diverse Jewish organizations that existed in Paris during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. The first part of the book analyzes the national composition of the Jewish population, its expropriation and daily life. The remaining
chapters discuss the roles, activities, and policies of various Jewish organizations as they supported Jews in their search for survival, alerted the non-Jewish population to the terrible threat faced by every Jewish family, and acted as representatives of the Jewish people--a role that led to
inevitable administrative cooperation with the Nazis and Vichy.

Combining careful scholarship with a survivor's zeal to set the record straight, Adler gives an insider's account of resistance members, whose determination was born of the pain and anger that came from the loss of loved ones, whose political ideology sustained them even when they faced the
threat of starvation and the loneliness of clandestine existence, and whose anguish was all the more intense because they belonged to that community in Paris that was selected as fodder for the Final Solution. Thoroughly researched and drawing upon previously unavailable materials, Adler presents
an important portrait of communal solidarity and communal conflict, of heroes and those whose courage failed.
 
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