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.
- ISBN10 0252065301
- ISBN13 9780252065309
- Publish Date 1 September 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 January 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 344
- Language English