Guided tour on the policies of spoliation and "economic Aryanisation" during the Occupation (1940-1944).
During the Occupation (1940-1944), the Vichy regime and the Nazis carried out state policies of plunder, the spoliation of Jewish people's property and the "Aryanisation" of the economy.
Walking through the Bourse, Sentier and then Faubourg Saint-Martin districts, this guided tour revisits this history through the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France plundered by the Nazis, and a forced labour camp in the heart of Paris. We will also stop at addresses that appear in investigators' reports or denunciation letters, to sketch a micro-history of victims of antisemitic measures and of the Shoah.
This guided tour is part of a "Histoire juive" cycle offered by Clément, which also includes a route on Jewish lives in Belleville since the 1920s.