Abstract
The study of penal archives is one of the avenues that allow us to deepen, through a statistical or biographical approach, our reflection on Jewish resistance to oppression and, ultimately, the ambiguities to which it can lead. This article analyses the singular case of Dezso Leibovits, a Hungarian Jew who settled with his family in Paris in 1931. At first an immigrant like any other, Leibovits, volunteered for the French army, was taken prisoner by the Germans and escaped in July of 1940. He survived the first years of the war in hiding in Paris, Lyon, Nice and Monaco before being hired at the end of 1943 by the Marseille antenna of the Organisation Todt as an accountant-translator, and afterwards by the German Police, in Nice in March of 1944, as an interpreter. At the liberation, following contradictory testimony, his case was not an easy one for his judges, who finally acquitted him: was he a collaborator and a traitor to France and to his fellow Jews, or was he rather a resistant, who used his position to help them?
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