Narrow Escapes and Subsequent Arrests in the Unoccupied Zone, August–November 1942

Abstract

This chapter describes the experiences of five Jewish immigrants and refugees—Miriam Löwenwirth, Boris Carmeli, Sigi Hart, Charles Roman, and Walter Marx—and their families, in France's unoccupied zone between August and November 1942. It examines how they narrowly avoided being arrested by the Vichy police, who came to round up recent immigrant and refugee Jews. As Germany tried to tighten its grip on the newly occupied south, the Jews who eluded arrests knew that it was just a matter of time before the police would get them.