The Holocaust and Jews of Marseille: The Enforcement of Anti-Semitic Policies in Vichy France

by Donna F. Ryan

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.

Genres: Holocaust

344 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Pamela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent, solid research. Sheds important and new light on how the Holocaust in France transpired.

[Micebyliz]

Detailed and well-researched account of the grinding wheels that killed.