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

Michlin, Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814332277 ISBN 13: 9780814332276

Verlag: Wayne State University Press, 2004

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Book by Michlin Gilbert

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"Michlin has the same understated, dignified, and ostensibly uncomplicated way of speaking about his Shoah experience as has Primo Levi. What we read here, however, tells us a great deal about French anti-Semitism and the workings of the Vichy government.... His is an important testimony, one that breaks my heart."

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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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• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0814332277
• ISBN 13: 9780814332276
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154