Letters from the Drancy Camp
Publisher
:
Tallandier
Parution date
:
2002
EAN
:
9782847340273
Description
Nine thousand adults and four thousand children were captured in the “Vel’ d’Hiv” raid in France during the summer of 1942. Most were deported to Auschwitz but before then, were forced to make a stop at Drancy, another camp, where thousand more were already waiting. This is where the 130 poignant letters of this book were written up until 1944. Letters from the inside and the outside: from families of prisoners as well as the letters of neighbors, cousins, or friends, pleading with authorities to release a detainee or denouncing anti-Semitic practices. The letters are from people of all backgrounds and ages, and include the letters of Max Jacob and Simone Weill. Lettres de Drancy is an essential contribution to the memory of the Holocaust which let us see up close the daily lives of the imprisoned and deported Jews of France between 1941 and 1944. They also shed light on the terrible “Vel’ d’Hiv” raid ordered by the Vichy Government. This book was made possible thanks to the work and contribution of the Jewish Center of Contemporary Documentation in Paris.
Author
Antoine Sabbagh :
|