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The Shoah (1939–1945)

Roundups of 26 August in the free zone

26 août 1942·Zone libre (France)

Toll
~6 500 arrêtés

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

French police arrest foreign Jews throughout the unoccupied zone and hand them over to German authorities, who were not present there.

On August 26, 1942, the French police arrested throughout the free zone the foreign Jews designated by prefectural lists, and conveyed them to Drancy for handover to the German authorities. The operation was conducted by French officials, in a zone where no German troops were present, in execution of commitments made by Vichy.

The arrests, prepared by the census of foreigners and the internment camps of the Midi, separated families and rounded up refugees who had come from Germany, Austria, and Poland. They provoked the first public protest by Catholic prelates, including the letter of Mgr Saliège read from the pulpit in Toulouse, and led many French citizens to hide children.

Period :
The Shoah (1939–1945)
Type :
Shoah
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
France
Sources

Archives préfectorales de la zone sud ; documents du Commissariat général aux questions juives et lettres pastorales.

At the same place16

  1. 1007-1012Persecutions under Robert the Pious; expulsion from Mainz (1012); violence in Limoges, Roueninconnu
  2. 1181Philip Augustus cancels debts owed to the Jews in exchange for a fifth paid to the treasury, prelude to the expulsion of the following yeartoll not established
  3. 1182Expulsion from the royal domaintoll not established
  4. 1239General seizure of copies of the Talmud ordered by Gregory IXtoll not established
  5. 1269Ordinance of Saint Louistoll not established
  6. 22 juillet 1306General arrest and expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  7. 1315Louis X recalls the Jews expelled in 1306, against heavy payment and for only twelve yearstoll not established
  8. 1321Affair of the leperscentaines
  9. 1322Charles IV expels the Jews from France anew, eight years after their recalltoute la communauté
  10. 17 septembre 1394Definitive expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  11. 1793-1794Closure of synagogues during the Terrorinconnu
  12. 17 mars 1808Legal persecutiontoll not established

And 4 more in the catalogue.

In the same country172

  1. 576Bishop Avitus has the synagogue destroyed; Jews must choose between baptism and exile to Marseille (Gregory of Tours)>500 baptisés de force
  2. 576-591Forced conversions and expulsions ordered by bishops Théodore, Ferréol and Sulpice; Grégoire the Great protests against forced baptismsinconnu
  3. 582Chilperic I imposes baptism on the Jews of the kingdom; the merchant Priscus, who refuses, is murderedtoll not established
  4. 1007Persecution under Robert the Piousinconnu
  5. 1010Bishop Alduin orders the community to convert or leave the town; violence in the wake of rumors about the destruction of the Holy Sepulchreinconnu
  6. Mai-juin 1096Massacre by crusaders en route to the Orient22
  7. Mai 1096First massacre of the First Crusadeinconnu
  8. 1146The crusaders of the Second Crusade attack the community, which defends itself and perishes in its houseinconnu

And 164 more in the catalogue.

Event 1934 of 2483, in chronological order · The Shoah (1939–1945): 915 events in the catalogue

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