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Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945: A Memoir

Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945: A Memoir

Michlin, Gilbert
Sternhell, Zeev

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ISBN10: 0814332277
ISBN13: 9780814332276
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Sep 17 2004
Pages: 145
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

Gilbert Michlin's sober text thoroughly documents the story of a Jewish immigrant family in France during the war years. Known as the country of enlightenment and human rights, France drew many Jews from Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century, including Michlin's parents, who fled the harsh conditions of Poland in the mid-1920s. Michlin's memoir evokes the golden years of his family's life in prewar Paris, where he was born, but also reflects on the difficulties of being Jewish in France. His father learned this when French authorities rejected his request for naturalization on the symbolic pretext that he was of no interest to the nation. The rise of Nazi Germany, the German occupation of France, and the advent of the Vichy government and its anti-Jewish laws would soon follow, and in 1944 the Michlin family would be deported to Auschwitz.

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