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Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944 (in English)
Jean-Marc Dreyfus; Sarah Gensburger (Author)
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Berghahn Books
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Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944 (in English) - Jean-Marc Dreyfus; Sarah Gensburger
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Synopsis "Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944 (in English)"
On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the L�vitan furniture store building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of three satellite camps (L�vitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris. Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners spent a few weeks to a year in one of these buildings, previously been used to store furniture, and were subjected to forced labor. Although the history of the persecution and deportation of France's Jews is well known, the three Parisian satellite camps have been subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This lack of attention by the most authoritative voices on the subject can perhaps be explained by the absence of a collective memory or by the marginal status of the Parisian detainees - the spouses of Aryans, wives of prisoners of war, half-Jews. Still, the Parisian camps did, and continue to this day, lack simple and straightforward descriptions. This book is a much needed study of these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events, expressing this memory remains a complex, sometimes painful process, and speaking about it a struggle.
