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On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from
the concentration camp at Drancy to the Levitan furniture store
building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of
three satellite camps (Levitan, 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.
This extraordinary wartime diary provides a rare glimpse into the
daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the
Vichy regime during World War II. Long hidden, the diary was
written by Lucien Dreyfus, a native of Alsacewho was a teacher at
the most prestigious high school in Strasbourg, an editor of the
leading Jewish newspaper of Alsace and Lorraine, the devoted father
of an only daughter, and the doting grandfather of an only
granddaughter. In 1939, after the French declaration of war on
Hitler's Germany, Lucien and his wife, Marthe, were forced by the
French state to leave Strasbourg along with thousands of other
Jewish and non-Jewish residents of the city. The couple found
refuge in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast in the south of France.
Anti-Jewish laws prevented Lucien from resuming his teaching career
and his work as a newspaper editor. But he continued to write,
recording his trenchant reflections on the situation of France and
French Jews under the Vichy regime. American visas allowed his
daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter to escape France in the
spring of 1942 and establish new lives in the United States, but
Lucien and Marthe were not so lucky. Rounded up during an SS raid
in September 1943, they were deported and murdered in
Auschwitz-Birkenau two months later. As the only diary by an
observant Jew raised bi-culturally in French and German, Dreyfus's
writing offers a unique philosophical and moral reflection on the
Holocaust as it was unfolding in France.
Human remains and identification presents a pioneering
investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the
search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass
violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists
and historians here confront historical and contemporary
exhumations with the application of social context to create an
innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue, enlightening the
political, social and legal aspects of mass crime and its
aftermaths. Through a ground-breaking selection of international
case studies, Human remains and identification argues that the
emergence of new technologies to facilitate the identification of
dead bodies has led to a "forensic turn", normalising exhumations
as a method of dealing with human remains en masse. However, are
these exhumations always made for legitimate reasons?
Multidisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to readers
interested in understanding this crucial phase of mass violence's
aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology,
sociology, forensic science, law, politics and modern warfare. The
research program leading to this publication has received funding
from the European Research Council under the European Union's
Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n
Degrees 283-617. -- .
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question
frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass
violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the
victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence,
death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their
victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific
ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often
with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented
phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary
and archival research to explore why, how and by whom these acts
have been committed through recent history. Interdisciplinary in
scope, Destruction and human remains will appeal to readers
interested in the history and implications of genocide and mass
violence, including researchers in anthropology, sociology,
history, politics and modern warfare. -- .
Human remains and identification presents a pioneering
investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the
search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass
violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists
and historians here confront historical and contemporary
exhumations with the application of social context to create an
innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue, enlightening the
political, social and legal aspects of mass crime and its
aftermaths. Through a ground-breaking selection of international
case studies, Human remains and identification argues that the
emergence of new technologies to facilitate the identification of
dead bodies has led to a "forensic turn", normalising exhumations
as a method of dealing with human remains en masse. However, are
these exhumations always made for legitimate reasons?
Multidisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to readers
interested in understanding this crucial phase of mass violence's
aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology,
sociology, forensic science, law, politics and modern warfare. The
research program leading to this publication has received funding
from the European Research Council under the European Union's
Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n
Degrees 283-617. -- .
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the
theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains
resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the
highly innovative and contemporary research into both mass violence
and the body, the most significant consequence of conflict - the
corpse - remains absent from the scope of existing research. Why
have human remains hitherto remained absent from our investigation,
and how do historians, anthropologists and legal scholars,
including specialists in criminology and political science,
confront these difficult issues? By drawing on international case
studies including genocides in Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge, Argentina,
Russia and the context of post-World War II Europe, this
ground-breaking edited collection opens new avenues of research.
Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers
interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath,
including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law,
politics and modern warfare. The research program leading to this
publication has received funding from the European Research Council
under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme
(FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n Degrees 283-617. -- .
On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from
the concentration camp at Drancy to the Levitan furniture store
building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of
three satellite camps (Levitan, 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.
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the
theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains
resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the
highly innovative and contemporary research into both mass violence
and the body, the most significant consequence of conflict - the
corpse - remains absent from the scope of existing research. Why
have human remains hitherto remained absent from our investigation,
and how do historians, anthropologists and legal scholars,
including specialists in criminology and political science,
confront these difficult issues? By drawing on international case
studies including genocides in Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge, Argentina,
Russia and the context of post-World War II Europe, this
ground-breaking edited collection opens new avenues of research.
Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers
interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath,
including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law,
politics and modern warfare. The research program leading to this
publication has received funding from the European Research Council
under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme
(FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n Degrees 283-617. -- .
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