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A two-volume book in which Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, 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 expose 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. Maurice Rajsfus is the author of thirty books and from 1994--2012 he created and circulated "Que fait la police," a "Cop Watch" bulletin detailing human rights abuses. He lives in Paris with his wife, sons and grandchildren.
Contents
Author's Preface to the English Edition Book One - Operation Yellow Star Note Honor and Discipline In the Service of Immoral Laws The Stages of Humiliation Toward the Yellow Star A Little History The Preliminaries Preparations Hunting Them Down The Requests for Special Dispensation Non-Jews Wearing the Badge A Compliant Press Toward Liberation The Red Line Book Two - Black Thursday: The Round-up of July 16, 1942 Preface Part One Twelve Hours of Anxiety [untitled chapters 1-15] Part Two: No Witnesses, No Crime! Local Amnesia The Police Have Forgotten The Bus Drivers Did Their Job Vincennes City Hall Has No Information What About the Churches? My City Has Lost Its Memory Part Three: Survivor of the Absurd Memories, a User's Guide Lost Children... Appendix - Interview with Maurice Rajsfus
