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Village of Secrets

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by Caroline Moorehead


  Hatzfield, Olivier (Pingouin) 277, 290, 310

  Hausner, Gideon 329

  Haussard, André 168

  Haute-Loire 2, 98, 107, 108, 131, 133, 139, 140, 152, 153, 177, 198, 203, 238, 240, 273, 276, 279, 289, 303, 307, 311, 315, 330, 333, 351, 352, 353, 354

  Haute-Savoie 123, 218, 229, 238, 265

  Héritier, Emma 198, 330

  Héritier, Henri 198, 281, 330

  HICEM 49–50, 57, 62

  Hilberg, Raul: The Destruction of the European Jews 326

  Himmler, Heinrich 60, 238

  Hirsch, Elisabeth (Böszi) 70, 156

  Hirsch, Ella 36, 38, 39, 46–7, 53–4, 64–5, 66, 67, 143

  Hirsch (later Liebmann), Hanne 2, 35–7, 38, 39–40, 45–7, 50, 53–4, 54, 58, 64–5, 74, 101–2, 103, 127, 137, 138, 140, 144, 146, 148, 165, 166, 203, 222, 224, 233–4, 276, 312, 318, 324, 328, 338, 339–40, 349, 352

  Hirsch, Max 35–6

  Hitler, Adolf 3, 4, 9, 19, 42, 79, 80, 82, 123, 133, 155, 209, 229, 237, 308, 311, 316, 326

  Hoefert, Mlle 148, 308

  Hooft, Visser’t 79, 233

  Hôtel Abel, Fay-sur-Lignon 161, 178, 179

  Hôtel des Lilas, le Chambon 277

  Hôtel du Lignon, le Chambon 166, 237, 247, 333

  Hôtel May, le Chambon 2, 141, 162, 196, 213, 338

  Huguenots 9, 93, 104, 105, 106, 112, 134, 162–3, 214, 277, 350

  identities/ID/papers, false 30, 58, 157, 158, 159–62, 182, 187, 190, 198–9, 209, 211, 212, 215, 216, 218, 222, 223, 225, 228, 230, 258, 263, 271, 278, 284

  informers 25, 151, 194, 251, 261, 265, 274, 287, 295, 303

  International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 40, 208, 209, 212, 233, 349

  internment camps, French 21, 22, 29, 35–58, 59, 60, 62–7, 75, 79, 81, 82, 85, 93, 99, 100, 104, 124, 133, 136, 140, 148, 154, 173, 208, 212, 216, 220, 229, 230, 243, 245, 251, 260, 275, 283 see also under individual camp name

  Israel 4, 36, 77, 105, 107, 185, 281, 284, 324, 329–30, 335, 339, 340

  Italy 3, 5, 15, 41, 114, 121, 151, 155, 159, 160, 172, 210, 217–18, 222, 228, 259–60, 261, 262, 317 see also France: Italian zone of occupation

  Izieu, raid on OSE children’s home in, 1943 295, 296, 318

  Jean-Faure, André 48–9

  Jeannet, Marcel 1, 132, 134, 205, 252, 278, 280

  Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (JOC) 227

  Jews: banned from certain French jobs and quotas put on others 20; barred from returning to occupied France 20; Catholic Church and see Catholic Church/Catholics; census of in French occupied zone, 1940 4, 20; Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ) and see Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ); concentration camps, sent to see under individual camp name; confiscation of property and enterprises 4, 20, 22; defamation, Pétain removes penalties for anti-Semitic, 1940 20; deportations from France to Eastern Europe 9, 25–9, 36, 46, 53, 59–74, 76, 81, 85, 86, 88–90, 103, 133, 139, 140, 142, 154, 155, 157, 161, 162, 165, 166, 174, 176, 195, 204, 204n, 205, 208, 209, 216, 218, 223, 232, 233, 236, 241, 242, 248, 251, 261, 264, 265, 267, 268, 269, 283, 295–7, 308, 311, 314, 316, 317, 321, 322, 326, 327, 328, 333, 350, 352, 354; deportations from Germany into France (Baden and the Palatinate) 4, 35–7, 38, 46, 282, 328; emigration of 18, 25, 46, 47, 49–51, 50, 53, 57, 61, 62, 64, 155–6, 157, 161, 173, 218–21, 222–9, 318, 322; escape into Switzerland of 218–21, 222–34; escape south over French demarcation line into unoccupied zone 22–3, 29–31, 34; Final Solution and 4, 5, 27, 155, 208–9, 316–17; flee south from invading German army, 1940 18–19, 20, 31–2; forbidden to use first names 24; French Jews, Vichy/German treatment of 23, 26, 27, 59, 89, 126, 157, 184–9, 208, 210–11, 235, 238, 275, 282, 295, 316, 321; French police and see police, Vichy French; Gestapo and see Gestapo; ID stamped with ‘J’, ‘Juif ’ or ‘Juive’, obliged to carry 29, 33, 157, 208; identities/papers, false 30, 58, 157–62, 182, 187, 190, 198–9, 209, 211, 212, 215, 216, 218, 222, 223, 225, 228, 230, 258, 263, 271, 278, 284; inter-war anti-Semitism, French 17–18; inter-war immigration into France 15–18; internment camps within France 21, 22, 29, 35–58, 59, 60, 62–7, 70, 75, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 93, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 124, 133, 136, 139, 140, 144, 148, 154, 156, 165, 173, 203, 204, 208, 212, 216, 220, 229, 230, 233, 243, 245, 251, 260, 275, 282, 283, 295, 322, 328, 339, 349, 350 see also under individual camp name; Italians ignore instructions to persecute 217–18; Law 979 (Jews no longer allowed to leave their residences without special papers) 155; loyalty to Pétain 25, 88; naturalisation date changed by Vichy 27, 60, 65–6, 89; naturalisation of French 15–16, 27, 29, 81; notables arrested, 1941 23; numbers of in Vichy France 60, 65–6; organisations come to aid of see under individual organisation name; Plateau Vivarais-Lignon, hiding of on see Plateau Vivarais-Lignon; post-war revelation of wartime persecution within France 325–30, 331–8; Protestant Church and see Protestant Church/ Protestants; public opinion on treatment of, French 76, 87, 89–90, 195–6; quotas for deportation 27, 60, 68, 76, 89, 238; register themselves as Jews 22, 25, 33, 171, 238; resistance movements 214–17, 281–2; round-ups of 4, 5, 23, 28–9, 32, 33, 39, 46, 68, 72, 80, 82, 88, 127, 132, 134–41, 161, 174–7, 186, 195, 200, 207, 208, 209, 220, 260–5, 296 see also under individual operation and city/area name; Statut des Juifs 4, 20, 42, 81, 101, 159, 263, 286, 316; tithe to UGIF, obliged to pay 25; truth of extermination camps revealed 88–9, 208–9; unoccupied zone, Jews in turned over to Germans 27, 59–68, 90, 132; Vichy and see Vichy; yellow star, forced to wear 5, 24, 32, 154, 173, 317

  Joulians, Jean 289

  Kamienkar, Louis 72

  Kamienkar, Rachel 71–3, 144, 313

  Kaplan, Rabbi Jacob 64

  Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany 36, 37, 39, 45–6, 125

  Klarsfeld, Beate and Serge 326, 327, 349, 350, 352, 354

  Klein-Liebert, Liliane 2, 211, 318, 321

  Klimoviski, Roger (Roger Climaud)161

  Knochen, Helmut 26, 27, 251–2, 317

  Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938 36, 55, 184

  Kundt Commission 39

  L’Abric, le Chambon 1, 102, 104, 137, 145–6, 264, 311, 338

  L’Amitié Chrétienne 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 209–10

  L’Auberge des Musiciens, Saint-Etienne 215, 216, 353 l’Avant-Garde 202–3

  L’Echo de la Montagne 96, 127, 164, 252

  L’Ecole des Roches, Normandy 119, 244, 300

  L’Œuvre des Enfants de la Montagne 96

  L’Oratoire du Louvre 211

  Lambert, Ruth 43

  Lamirand, Georges 5, 131–3, 134, 190

  Laval, Pierre 3, 26, 27, 59, 60, 61, 76, 81, 85, 89, 126, 151, 156, 174, 193, 194, 195, 202, 204, 205, 208, 235, 275, 286, 304, 316, 328, 350

  Le Cheylard 301

  ‘Le Courrier Français du Témoignage Chrétien’ 210

  Le Forestier, Bernard 165, 302

  Le Forestier, Danielle 119–20, 121, 123, 302, 303, 304–5, 333, 351

  Le Forestier, Dr 1, 119–20, 123, 125, 127, 163, 165, 166, 190, 194, 196, 197, 198, 204, 247, 249, 254, 257, 270, 276, 278, 294, 301, 302–5, 308, 328, 332, 333, 335, 338

  Le Forestier, Jean-Philippe 165, 333, 351

  Leenhardt, Roland 1, 164, 180, 223, 282–3, 339

  Légion Française des Combattants 202

  Les Grillons, le Chambon 203, 244, 245, 247, 262, 338

  Les Messageries Evangeliques 252

  Les Milles internment camp 49, 57, 63, 64, 73, 173

  Les Sorbières, le Chambon 123

  Les Tavas 99–100, 139, 142, 255

  Les Vastres 181, 182

  Lesage, Gilbert 44, 70

  Lewin, Jakob 203–4

  Lewin, Martin 203–4, 204n

  Libération-Sud 5, 207

  Liebmann, Max 2, 46, 54, 103, 165–6, 222–3, 224, 276, 312, 318, 324, 339–40, 349

  Liénart, Cardinal of Lille 195

  lieux de mémoire 325, 327–8

  Lignon, river 104, 116, 117, 118, 126, 189, 205, 250, 277, 291, 306, 338

  Lipschutz, Pro
fessor 183–4, 206, 248

  Liwerant, Aaron 15–16, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 258–9, 319, 349

  Liwerant, Berthe 15, 16, 16, 27, 28, 29, 30–1, 258–9

  Liwerant, Jacques 2, 18, 25, 28, 30, 31, 54, 74, 142–4, 258, 263, 312

  Liwerant, Sara 15–16, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27–8, 29–30, 31, 258

  Liwerant, Simon 2, 15, 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30–1, 42, 54, 74, 142–4, 258–9, 275–6, 298, 312, 318, 319, 320, 349, 353

  Loinger, George 2, 229, 230, 231, 262, 264, 265, 283, 296, 297–8, 318, 330

  Loiseau-Chevalier, Suzanne 229, 232, 233

  Lowrie, Donald 43, 44, 46, 61, 85, 88, 173, 349, 350

  Luther, Martin 106, 191

  Lyons 23, 29, 30, 31, 34, 42, 43, 46, 67–9, 72, 73, 74, 76, 86, 87, 96, 123, 143, 151, 152, 172, 188, 192, 197, 209, 210, 212, 214, 221, 223, 227, 235, 236, 240, 249, 253, 254, 258, 259, 262, 267, 272, 286, 295, 298, 299, 304, 305, 309, 319, 324, 353, 354

  Maber, Gladys 1, 122–3, 127, 129, 133, 138, 145, 147, 148, 163, 172, 188, 204, 237, 246, 276, 290, 302, 306, 313, 314, 330, 332

  Mairesse, Nicole 200

  Mairesse, Simone 200–1, 216, 242

  La Maison des Roches, le Chambon 1, 139, 171, 203, 206, 242–50, 245, 318, 338, 353

  Majola, Paul 182

  Mann, Golo 50, 156, 173

  Mann, Heinrich 50, 156

  Manon, Louis 277, 278

  Maquis 2, 9, 10, 195, 197, 229, 237, 249, 269, 274, 270, 274–92, 293–4, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310, 312, 332, 334, 335–6, 337, 339 see also Resistance, French

  Marco Polo Resistance network 267, 319

  Marrus, Michael 326, 327, 348, 354

  Marseilles 5, 44, 49, 50, 52, 56, 57, 62, 63, 84, 124, 150, 151, 155–7, 172–7, 179, 182, 198, 215, 216, 240, 264, 281, 296, 297, 314, 339, 352

  Maurras, Charles 17, 19, 21, 27

  Mauthausen 216

  May, Eugenie 2, 141, 213

  May, Germain 2

  May, Jean 2, 141, 213

  May, Roger 2

  May, Victor 196

  Mazet-Saint-Voy 1, 127, 132, 134, 178, 198, 199–200, 202, 216, 278, 280–1, 282, 307, 309, 330, 331, 332, 334, 339, 354

  Mégève 218, 230, 260

  Menkes, Sylvia 208

  Metger, Oberst 303, 309

  Methodists 78, 106

  Meyer, Hubert 136, 203

  Meyer, Nicole 253

  MI6 287–8

  Mikhaëli, Itzhak 283–4, 339, 353

  Milice 4, 5, 202, 227, 238, 251, 259, 260, 263, 265, 267, 274–5, 278–9, 280, 281, 284, 295, 299, 302, 304, 307, 333

  Montbrison, Christian de 204

  Montherlant, Henri de 21

  Montluc 265, 266, 269, 295, 296, 304

  Morel, Alfred 279, 280, 312

  Mosse, Alain 296

  Motte, Mayor Eliane Wauquiez 336, 354

  Moulin, Jean 325

  Moussaron, Archbishop of Albi, Mgr, 84

  Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR) 5, 207, 276, 292

  Muller, General Rolf 152

  Mussolini, Benito 5, 15, 217, 218, 241–2, 259–60

  Nallet, Jean 103, 290, 291, 309, 354

  Nice 46, 48, 62, 159, 160, 166, 177, 218, 260–5, 275, 281, 296

  Nîmes Committee 4, 51–3, 60, 61, 69, 85

  Nizard, Albert 174–6

  Nizard, André 175, 176, 177, 179, 238, 230, 240–2, 251, 314, 339

  Nizard, Armand 174–7, 179, 238, 239, 240–2, 251, 259–60, 314, 339

  Nizard, Bella 175–7, 179, 239, 240, 241, 242

  Nizard, Blanchette 175

  Nizard, Gilbert 2, 174–7, 178, 238, 239, 242, 314, 339, 352, 353

  Nizard, Henri 239, 242

  Nizard, Marthe 176, 241, 242

  Nizard, Marthonne 175, 179, 242

  Nizard, Maurice 176, 177, 179, 239, 240, 278, 307

  Nizard, Mireille 176, 179, 314

  Nizard, Robert 239, 242

  Nizard, Simon 174–6, 241, 242

  Nizard, Suzanne 175, 177, 178

  Noble, Lindsey 61

  Noé camp 63, 140

  Nordmann, René 201

  North Africa: Allied landings in, 1942 2, 5, 151, 157; as possible sanctuary for Jews in 103, 260

  Oberg, SS General Karl 26, 27, 28, 89, 174, 211

  Office of Strategic Studies (OSS) 1, 287–9, 300

  Ophuls, Marcel: Le Chagrin et la Pitié 326

  Ophuls, Max 156, 327

  Oradour-sur-Glane 6, 299, 308

  Orsi, Ermine 262

  OSE (Organisation de Secours aux Enfants) 1, 2, 31, 34, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 50, 53, 57–8, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 70, 86–7, 88, 90, 93, 99, 101, 134, 141, 142, 156, 157–8, 162, 211, 212–14, 215, 224, 230, 231, 253–6, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 295, 296, 318, 320–3

  Overlord, Operation 276, 299

  Palatinate, Germany 4, 35, 37, 38, 328

  Palestine 49, 107, 133, 156, 217, 283, 296, 322, 324

  Le Panelier, le Chambon 94, 291

  Papon, Maurice 328

  Paris 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 15, 17–18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 41, 42, 48, 59, 82, 88, 89, 129, 132–3, 139, 147, 148, 161, 172, 174, 201, 203, 208, 210, 211, 229, 253, 254, 259, 263, 265, 283, 285, 288, 310, 312, 316, 319, 325

  Parti Populaire Français 260

  passeur 22, 29, 30, 34, 55, 56, 88, 156, 223, 224, 230–1, 232, 233, 275, 297, 334

  Paxton, Robert: Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order 326, 327, 329, 349, 351, 354

  Pellepoix, Darquier de 4, 23–4, 25, 295, 328

  Pellet, Marguerite 267, 318–19

  Pellet, René 267, 268, 318–19

  Pension des Acacias, le Chambon 171, 249

  Pension des Genêts 197, 226

  Pension Les Ombrages, le Chambon 198, 207, 312

  Perret, Jean 111

  Pétain, Maréchal 3, 4, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 33, 40–1, 44, 60–1, 69, 73, 75, 76, 78, 81, 82, 84, 86, 88, 110, 111, 125, 126, 131, 134, 145, 151, 153, 154, 159, 164, 174, 176, 185, 192, 193, 195, 202, 203, 204, 209, 230, 251, 283, 326, 327

  Philip, André 78, 79, 97, 98–9, 121, 125, 127–8, 134, 165, 195, 198, 226

  Philip, Mireille 1, 98–9, 127–8, 165–6, 197, 199, 222, 224, 225–6, 227, 228, 230, 232, 240, 242, 318

  Philip, Olivier 225, 226, 352

  Pithiviers, internment camp at 29

  Piton, Pierre 1, 196–7, 198, 199, 226, 227, 228, 232, 276, 318, 334, 352, 353, 354

  Pius XII, Pope 209

  Plateau Vivarais-Lignon: 1943 as lethal year on/(CGQJ) uncovers ‘escape network’ 190; appearance of villages in 94–5; escape routes to Switzerland from 218–21, 222–34; ‘espirit de frondeur’ (spirit of rebellion) on 163–4; first two years of war on 126–7; German army on 2, 9, 10, 152, 153–4, 166–7, 203, 207, 237, 253, 265, 277, 294, 300, 303, 307, 308, 309, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 352; initial idea of bringing children rescued from Vénissieux and internment camps of Gurs and Rivesaltes to 93; isolation of 110–11, 116, 117, 163, 164, 165, 170, 188, 213, 274, 336; Jews and resisters hidden on see under individual name; Juifs en règle (registered but untouched Jews) on 238; Lamirand visits, 1942 5, 131–3, 134; legal status of children’s homes on until summer of 1942 103–4; liberation of 299–300, 307–9, 310, 312; museum 335–6; needy children visit pre-war 95–6; numbers of hidden/saved Jews/ resisters on 9, 10, 311, 317, 318, 334, 335, 336; pacifism and nonviolent resistance 9, 10, 79, 112, 113, 114, 115, 121, 123–4, 125, 147, 164, 192, 194, 198, 205, 269, 270, 272, 273, 276, 293–4, 308, 311, 312, 331, 332, 334, 335, 338, 351, 352; police on 2, 171–2, 190, 203, 204, 205, 238, 246, 249, 269, 338; police raids on 134–41, 190–2, 203–6, 216, 238–41, 242–50; post-war 314, 315, 319; post-war revelation of role in hiding Jews and resisters 9–11, 329–36; Protestant religion on 99, 104–11, 127, 153, 252; railway in 95; Resistance/Maquis on 196–7, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 216–17, 273, 274–92, 293–307; search for homes in to house Jewish children 99–102; shortages of food and clot
hing on 102–3, 145–6, 207, 213, 252, 253, 255–7; silence and discretion, culture of 19, 110, 116, 162–3, 182, 184, 186, 188, 214, 250, 335, 337; terrain and climate of 93–4, 125, 149, 191, 205, 235, 253; touristes alimentaires (visitors in search of food) on 145, 163, 178, 202; tourists in 96–7, 178; tribunals, post-war 315; Vichy and see Vichy

  Poincaré, Raymond 17

  Poivre, Noël 193, 243, 245, 246, 247

  Poland 3, 9, 15, 16, 24, 27, 29, 31, 42, 52, 57, 60, 66, 70, 72, 86, 89, 90, 133, 139, 144, 148, 154, 158, 156, 181, 184, 185, 188, 205, 232, 238, 248, 254, 300, 317, 320, 321, 323, 324, 339

  Poliakov, Léon 215, 216, 353

  police, Vichy French 2, 22, 23, 26, 27–8, 29, 33, 39, 43, 46, 49, 50, 52, 56, 60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70–1, 73, 85, 89, 99, 127, 130, 134–41, 142, 151, 152–3, 155, 158, 160, 162, 166–7, 168, 171–2, 174, 176, 181, 186, 188, 191–2, 193, 194, 195, 196, 199, 202, 203, 204, 205, 211, 214, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 228, 232, 233, 236, 238, 240, 242, 249, 251, 252, 256, 257, 261, 265, 266, 274, 278, 279, 280, 281, 283, 284, 302, 307, 308–9, 311, 317, 322, 328, 330, 332, 336, 337

  Pompidou, Georges 315

  Pont du Cholet 254–5, 256

  Portugal 49, 86, 156, 157, 173, 175

  Poujol, Jacques 334, 351, 353

  La Pouponnière 99

  Praly, Inspector Léopold 2, 171–2, 190, 203, 204, 205, 238, 246, 249, 269, 338

  Protestant Church/Protestants: belief in salvation of the Jews 106–7; Boegner directs Protestants to save Jews 5, 84–5; failure to speak out against treatment of Jews 75; history in France 76–80; individuals involved in rescue/hiding of Jews see under individual name; la Désert 77, 84–5, 106; ‘la haute bourgeoisie Protestante’ 79; ‘les theses de Pomeyrol’, 1941 79, 80; number of pastors involved in saving Jews on Plateau Vivarais-Lignon 10; organisations involved in saving Jews on Plateau Vivarais-Lignon see under individual organisation name; pastors involved in saving of Jews see under individual name; Protestant nature of Plateau Vivarais-Lignon 104–11; Reformed Synod, May 1941 80; ‘Reveil’ 77–8, 107; social welfare and charity in the tradition of 106; STO, comes out against 195; tradition of defiance in the Ardèche and Cévannes 104–5, 106

  Protestant Reformed Church 76, 270

  Puritans 106, 107, 108

  Le Puy-en-Velay 2, 93, 94, 96, 121, 131, 133, 135, 137, 138, 140, 152, 153, 154, 167–8, 190, 191, 201, 203, 204, 235, 239, 240, 248–9, 277, 278, 282, 291, 297, 302, 303, 307, 310, 337

 

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