Public lecture by historian Jacques Semelin on July 4, 2019
No 197/2019 from Jun 28, 2019
On July 4, 2019, historian Jacques Semelin will give a lecture on the survival of Jews in France during World War II. An Emeritus Research Director at the National Centre of Scientific Research in Paris, Semelin will describe how much of the Jewish population in France - estimated at 75 percent - managed to avoid arrest, deportation, and murder. Using numerous sources, most notably contemporary witness accounts and files from the archives of the Vichy government, Semelin relates life stories of persecuted individuals. ...
