"Based on extensive research into previously unpublished sources, including the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, police prefectures, and Philippe Petain, Adam Rayski clearly demonstrates the Vichy government's role as an accomplice in the Nazi program of genocide. He also explores the sizeable prewar divide between French-born and immigrant Jews. This manifested itself in cultural conflicts and mutual antagonism as well as in varied initial responses to the antisemitic edicts and actions of the Vichy government. Rayski reveals how these communities eventually set aside their differences and united to resist the Vichy-supported Nazi threat." -- From the book jacket.

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum." -- Cover.

1940-1942: The logic of persecution -- The first Anti-Jewish measures: dark forebodings -- The consistory between religion and politics -- Preliminaries to a massacre -- The creation of the UGIF, the "compulsory community" -- The yellow star: stigmatize, humiliate, and isolate the Jews -- July 1942: the great roundup and the first acts of resistance -- The inhuman hunt in the southern zone -- Drancy: the last circle before hell -- 1942-1944: to resist or submit? -- "Night and fog": the battle against silence -- People of the shadows -- Do not forget the children -- "Intermezzo," or the Italian reprieve -- Jewish perceptions of the war -- 1943: By the light of flames from the ghetto -- Jews, French and resistant -- The Jewish scouts take up arms -- The Jewish resistance in all its variety -- CRIF: Constructing the future in the shadow of death -- A time for all fears and all hopes -- The weight of the present and of the future -- The twenty-first century.