Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945

by Gilbert Michlin, Leon Lewis (Translator), Zeev Sternhell (Afterword)

Overview

English translation of Gilbert Michlin’s Holocaust memoir detailing his family’s life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814338483
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	09/17/2004
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	554 KB

About the Author

After surviving Auschwitz, Gilbert Michlin emigrated from France in 1946 to live with his uncle in the United States. He is a mathematical engineer, retired from IBM.

What People are Saying About This

Robert O. Paxton of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order

A very powerful and a very moving account of a remarkable survival."

Chair of the Department of French at New York University - Judith Graves Miller

Michlin has the same understated, dignified, and ostensibly uncomplicated way of speaking about his Shoah experience as has Primo Levi. What we read here, however, tells us a great deal about French anti-Semitism and the workings of the Vichy government. . . . His is an important testimony, one that breaks my heart."

Editorial Reviews

In his richly textured memoir, Gilbert Michlin tells the story of his and his parents' experience in interwar France and in the Nazi death camps, from which Gilbert alone returned. His text is of particular interest to historians because he delved into archival sources to better understand the how and why of his family's tragic twentieth-century Jewish saga. Michlin's memoir provides us with fascinating evidence of how immigrant Jews in the interwar years blended their desire for integration with their attachment to their Jewish heritage.

H-France Review

Michlin has the same understated, dignified, and ostensibly uncomplicated way of speaking about his Shoah experience as has Primo Levi. What we read here, however, tells us a great deal about French anti-Semitism and the workings of the Vichy government. . . . His is an important testimony, one that breaks my heart."

chair of the Department of French at New York University - Judith Graves Miller

A very powerful and a very moving account of a remarkable survival."

author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order - Robert O. Paxton