Stealing Home
Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947
(Sprache: Englisch)
A social history focusing on the individual stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors in France as they tried to rebuild their lives after the war: examining the looting of private apartments in Paris as part of the German occupiers' plunder of France, and...
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A social history focusing on the individual stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors in France as they tried to rebuild their lives after the war: examining the looting of private apartments in Paris as part of the German occupiers' plunder of France, and analyzing Jewish attempts to reclaim their possessions in the war's immediate aftermath.
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Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Paris to discover their homes completely stripped of all personal possessions or occupied by new inhabitants. In 1945, the French provisional government established a Restitution Service to facilitate the return of goods to wartime looting victims. Though time-consuming, difficult, and often futile, thousands of people took part in these early restitution efforts. Stealing Home demonstrates that attempts to reclaim one's furnishings and personal possessions were key in efforts to rebuild Jewish political and social inclusion in the war's wake. Far from remaining silent, Jewish survivors sought recognition of their losses, played an active role in politics, and turned to both the government and each other for aid. Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, restitution claims, social workers' reports, newspapers, and government documents, Stealing Home provides a social history of the period that focuses on Jewish survivors' everyday lives during the lengthy process of restoring citizenship and property rights. It examines social rebirth through the prism of restitution and argues that the home was critical in shaping the postwar relationship between Jews and the state, and in the successes and failures associated with rebuilding Jewish lives in France after the Holocaust.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Stealing Home “
- Preface
- Introduction: Restitution: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Twentieth-Century France
- PART I
- 1: Reconstructing Homes: Jewish Private Lives in Postwar Paris
- PART II
- 2: Displaced Persons, Displaced Possessions: The Furniture Operation in France
- 3: Competing Claims: Housing, the Restoration of Republicanism, and the Myth of Unity
- 4: The Restitution Service: The Creation of a Republican Bureaucracy
- PART III
- 5: Rebuilding Families: The Gendering and Meaning of Home
- 6: Reclaiming Rights: Jewish Communal Responses to Material Loss
- 7: Social Rebirth: The Role of Public and Private Aid in Rebuilding the Jewish Community
- Conclusion: Coming to Terms with the Past
Autoren-Porträt von Shannon L. Fogg
Shannon L. Fogg is professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology and the author of The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shannon L. Fogg
- 2016, 214 Seiten, Maße: 17,4 x 24,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019878712X
- ISBN-13: 9780198787129
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.12.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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Fogg's richly documented Stealing Home resonates well beyond its time frame. Gary D. Mole, H-France
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