After the Deportation

Memory Battles in Postwar France

Philip Nord

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781108801324
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

A total of 160, 000 people, a mix of résistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. In this compelling new study, Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, as it came to be known, was remembered after the war and how Deportation memory from the very outset, became politicized against the backdrop of changing domestic and international contexts. He shows how the Deportation generated competing narratives – Jewish, Catholic, Communist, and Gaullist – and analyzes the stories told by and about deportees after the war and how these stories were given form in literature, art, film, monuments, and ceremonials.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I Heroes and Martyrs
• Part II Shoah
• Epilogue and Conclusion
• Notes
• Index