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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