Persecution of the Jews in Europe began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power as Chancellor of Germany. Hitler implemented a policy of anti- Semitism, first in Germany and in the other countries that the armies of Nazi Germany conquered or forged alliance. Jews deprived of their civil rights, their synagogues, destroyed, prominent Jews imprisoned, and their assets and properties confiscated.
The Second World War began when the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939. In response on September 3rd, France and Britain declared war on Germany.
The armies of Adolf Hitler, using an innovative tactic called "blitzkrieg" attacked Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg on May 10th, 1940. Nazi Germany invaded France on May …show more content…
France divided into a northern zone occupied by Nazi German forces. This zone includes Paris, where the great majority of the Jews lived, and a South zone up to the Mediterranean Sea.
The North of France, which was under German occupation, included the North of the Loire Valley and the Atlantic coast. Southern France or free zone was in the hands of the new French Government, established in Vichy after the defeat of June 1940. It consisted in a satellite government of Germany. The demarcation line divided the two zones.
During the inter- War period, France was one of the most liberal countries in opening their doors to Jew's refugees. Those refugees came from Poland, Romania, Germany and other territories occupied by the army of Nazi: Czechoslovakia and Austria.
The Jews born in France of families who had lived in France for centuries and the Jews who immigrated to that became naturalized French citizen composed Jew population in France. These Jewish immigrants came to France from eastern European countriesThe Hitler arrival to power in Germany in 1933, forced many Jews of the Reich to seek asylum in …show more content…
Together with Jewish help organizations brought children to the free zone or to the rural areas of France.
In March 1942, the Nazis start the Final Solution in France. The same year, in July, demanded the arrest of the Jews in the occupied zone to face deportation to the extermination camps.
Italian army occupies the southeast of France. Italian authorities refused the requests from the Nazi army to arrest the French Jews. From 1942 and until September 1943, many French Jews found refuge East of the Rhone River, this zone occupied by the Italians, is a French territory. The Nazi army occupied the Italian area in September 1943 and execute the Final solution supported by the French Militia.
On May 29th, 1942, the military occupation authorities passed an Ordinance that forced the Jews in the controlled zone, to wear the yellow color star. David’s Star had in black letters the word "Jews, on Paris Metro; Jews could only travel in the last car.
In the free zone of Vichy, the yellow star was not mandatory.
July 8th, 1942, Jews prohibited accessing to public places, in the public gardens, especially children, they "excluded from the outdoor games. Deprived of collective entertainment and