A two-volume book in which Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and
former investigative journalist for Le Monde, shares his research
and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's
role in the Holocaust. In the first volume, "Operation Yellow
Star," Rajsfus meticulously analyzes archival documents,
demonstrating the extent of police collaboration with the Vichy
regime and how it facilitated the persecution, deportation, and
ultimately the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Examining
long-unseen arrest records and transcripts, Rajsfus seeks to
understand how and why many average French citizens resisted Nazi
occupation while others were willingly complicit. In the second
book, "Black Thursday," Rajsfus recounts his own experiences of
July 16, 1942, when he and his family were arrested as part of the
Vel' d'Hiv roundup, the largest ever in France, of 13,000 Jews.
While most of those detained during the two-day sweep eventually
died in Auschwitz, the author survived and has spent the rest of
his life grappling with his country's betrayal. Together, the two
volumes by Rajsfus offer a damning expose of the bureaucracy of
genocide, laying bare how cultural bias, political self-interest,
and the influence of right-wing media led to the implementation of
the Yellow Star as a segregationist device and determined France's
culpability in the Holocaust. Maurice Rajsfus is the author of
thirty books and from 1994--2012 he created and circulated "Que
fait la police," a "Cop Watch" bulletin detailing human rights
abuses. He lives in Paris with his wife, sons and grandchildren.
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