How three-quarters of French Jews survived the Holocaust, despite the Vichy regime

HIST 276 - Lecture 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France | Open Yale Courses

L'état civil des Français à l'étranger

CH4 LA FRANCE, DEFAITE ET OCCUPEE : REGIME DE VICHY, COLLABORATION ET RESISTANCE

On 4 June 1942, the systematic deportation of Jews from France escalated under the collaboration of Nazi authorities and the Vichy regime. Jewish men, women, and children were rounded up and sent to transit camps such as Drancy, where they faced harsh conditions before being transported eastward to extermination sites in occupied Poland. Among the deportees were thousands of children, forcibly separated from their families, packed into overcrowded trains, and sent toward almost certain death. Ma