The Shoah (1939–1945)
Aryanization of Jewish property in Algeria
1942·Algérie
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
The census of businesses leads to the appointment of provisional administrators; shops in Algiers, Oran and Constantine are sold at low prices to designated buyers.
The census of businesses leads to the appointment of provisional administrators tasked with liquidating or transferring Jewish-owned property. Shops in Alger, Oran, and Constantine pass to designated buyers at prices bearing no relation to their actual value. The dispossession also affects rental properties and the modest businesses of working-class neighborhoods. In Algeria as in metropolitan France, the procedure presents itself as administrative and keeps a record of each transfer; postwar restitutions will run up against precisely these acts, deemed regular.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Egypt and Maghreb
- Country :
- Algérie
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.