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Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday

Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday

Rajsfus, Maurice
Mitchell, Mike
Aronoff, Phyllis

Paperback

French HistoryHolocaustWorld War II

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0997003499
ISBN13: 9780997003499
Publisher: Doppelhouse Press
Published: Jun 27 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Two books by Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, who shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust.

In the first volume, Operation Yellow Star, Rajsfus meticulously analyzes archival documents, demonstrating the extent of police collaboration with the Vichy regime and how it facilitated the persecution, deportation, and ultimately the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Examining long-unseen arrest records and transcripts, Rajsfus seeks to understand how and why many average French citizens resisted Nazi occupation while others were willingly complicit. In the second book, Black Thursday, Rajsfus recounts his own experiences of July 16, 1942, when he and his family were arrested as part of the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, the largest ever in France, of 13,000 Jews. While most of those detained during the two-day sweep eventually died in Auschwitz, the author survived and has spent the rest of his life grappling with his country's betrayal. Together, the two volumes by Rajsfus offer a damning exposé of the bureaucracy of genocide, laying bare how cultural bias, political self-interest, and the influence of right-wing media led to the implementation of the Yellow Star as a segregationist device and determined France's culpability in the Holocaust.

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