The Holocaust in France
The Holocaust in France was the persecution, deportation, and annihilation of Jews between 1940 and 1944 in occupied France, metropolitan Vichy France, and in Vichy-controlled French North Africa, during World War II. The persecution began in 1940, and culminated in deportations of Jews from France to Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Poland. The deportations started in 1942 and lasted until July 1944. In 1940, 340,000 Jews, about two-thirds French citizens and one-third refugees from Nazi Germany, were living in continental France. More than 75,000 Jews were deported to death camps, where about 72,500 were killed. Most of these Jews were foreigners : 25 000 from Poland, 7,000 from Germany, 4,000 from the Soviet Union, 3,000 from Romania, 3,000 from Austria, 1,500 from Greece, 1,500 from Turkey, 1,200 from Hungary. French Jews numbered around 24,000 (6,500 French Jews from Metropole, 1,500 from Algeria, 8,000 children of foreign parents, 8,000 Jews naturalized)...
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