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Lacaune Jewish Friendship
Association


The Association wishes to maintain and develop relations between the survivors and families of the Jews forcibly relocated in Lacaune during the Second World War and the town’s population, and to ensure that the duty of memory for that period is carried out by supporting pertinent research and its dissemination.


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Françoise Cavalier à Carmaux de 1940 à 1945


Ses parents ont protégé des juifs pendant l’occupation et son père était le commandant F.F.I. de la zone D du Tarn sous le nom de Castan



Témoignage par Anna Castan
Anna Castan de Montauban est la petite-fille de Marguerite Dulaut medaille des Justes


Témoignage de Francine Yvette Kaplan
Témoignage et recherche d'informations"
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Pourquoi les Pays Baltes ?
Aujourd’hui, si l’essentiel de l’histoire du convoi 73 est connu, de nombreux mystères entourent toujours le voyage de ces 878 hommes emmenés, le 15 mai 1944, par les nazis, de Drancy jusqu’au Fort n° 9 de Kovno (Lituanie) ou à la prison Patarei de Tallinn (Estonie). Le convoi 73 est le seul train ayant emmené des Juifs de France dans les pays Baltes. Ni les archives de guerre, ni les criminels nazis jugés n’en ont révélé la raison. Il existe une hypothèse moyennement crédible selon laquelle, devant l’avancée des Soviétiques, les nazis avaient besoin de main-d’oeuvre pour effacer les traces de leurs crimes, notamment brûler les corps dans les fosses communes

Un argumentaire proposé par Eve Line Blum-Cherchevsky


Avis de recherche
Esther MAYER-GAYRARD


1951 : entrée en 6°
Un témoignage sur Edmond Durand médaille des Justes par Jacques Fijalkow


Un déporté du Tarn ; Berthold Nasielski
Témoignage et recherches d'André Arnal


Hommage à Hannah Szpic
par Jean Leselbaum


Les Rafles de la région de Figeac en 1944
Dossier O.N.A.C. du Lot


Notes et mémoire de guerre de Fernand Farssac dit Toutyva
Chef de brigade à la gendarmerie de Lautrec en 1940, Fernand Farssac a permis de sauver 80 jeunes juifs réfugiés dans la ferme école des Ormes à Lautrec, en les prévenant ou les faisant prévenir chaque fois qu'il aura connaissance d'ordres visant à les arrêter. Fernand Farssac est né le 19 avril 1902 au Garric. Il était le fils aîné d'Auguste Farssac, mineur à Sainte-Marie à Blaye, et de Marie-Julienne Fenouillet. Il s'est éteint le 21 février 1964 à Albi. Il a reçu la Médaille des Justes en 2004. Ce document, rédigé par Gérard Farssac, fils de Fernand Farssac, résume l’action de son père entre 1940 et 1944. Il lui a permis, aidé par ses carnets de notes, de retracer son action pendant la clandestinité et pendant le Maquis.


In remembrance of my father, Kurt Levie by Renée Eve Levie
Levie Kurt, born 04/11/1902, in Marburg; enlisted voluntarily in the French Army in 1940; hunted and arrested in Les Cabannes (near Cordes), France, on 9/9/1943; interned at the Camp de Noé; sent as slave worker to the Todt Organisation, 212e G.T.E. of Caronte l’Avéra at Martigues; transferred to Drancy on 23/04/1944; deported on 15/05/1944 to Kaunas/Reval on the Convoy 73. Presumed date of death: 20/05/1944, circumstances unknown.


Mémorial des Judéo-espagnols déportés de France
Présentation du projet


Le Chantier Rural des Ormes (1940 – 1944)
Deuxième période : automne 42 – été 44 Abbé André Maynadier Publié initialement Revue du Tarn 203 Automne 2006 455 468


Du Corps Franc de la Montagne Noire à Buchenwald : témoignage postume de David Blum
Témoignage recueilli par Johannes Blum - Avant-propos et notes : Olivier Héral Publié initialement Revue du Tarn 203 Automne 2006 469 - 484


Robert Badinier — The future of memory; a long story....
From the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Delegate, Memory and Hopes from the Resistance


Jean Pierre Gaubert - Lacaune 1943 : the roundup of the Jews
Meetings in and around Castres


Jean and Marie returned home from the death camps
Testimony. They lived through Deportation and tell their story on Radio France 3 Sud. Published January 30, 2010, La Dépêche du Midi


The film Camp d'Argelès
The internment camp in Argelès existed for two years, from January 1939 to September 1941. Packed into a former fishing village on a 1,500-metre long stretch of beach, with neither drinking water nor huts, the prisoners lived in appalling sanitary conditions.


The testimony of Irène Israë, born Krämer
Former member of the Chantier Rural (the rural "resistance camp") of the French Jewish Boy and Girl Scouts in Lautrec


« September 16, 1943. Escape from the prison in Castres ». Preface by Alain Boscus
Excepts from the volume published by Jonny Granzow,





Sandra Marc – Forced relocation of Jews by the Vichy government
This case study makes it possible to better understand the nature of forced relocation: what were the methods and the means used by Vichy to carry out this exclusionary plan? How did Jews and non-Jews live together in the towns slated for forced relocation? Lastly, what were people’s reactions to the roundups that began during the summer of 1942?


Léa Markscheid’s testimony
Testimony on the escape of Jews forced to relocate to Lacaune. These stories were collected as part of a personal project to elucidate the history of my family, sent to live in Lacaune in 1942.


Rachel Wolfgang – The story of a camouflaged woman
The account of a woman forced to relocate to Lacaune


Olivier Héral – The September 9, 1943 roundup in the Tarn
September 7, 1943, the regional delegates of the S.E.C. (Section d’enquêtes et de contrôle [Investigation and Supervision Branch], part of the Commissariat Général aux questions juives of the Vichy government) for the Southern zone were called in to Headquarters in Vichy, where they were instructed, in a most confidential manner, to draw up the list of foreign and French Jews in their respective regions. These lists would serve as the basis for a vast roundup operation at a date to be set once the listings were ready.


André Maynadier – The Rural Resistance “camp” in the Elms (1940-1944) – first period: the beginning until August 1942
The first part of a study devoted to the “Chantier Rural” (the rural resistance “camp”) of the French Jewish Scouts (E.I.F., Eclaireurs israëlites de France). in Lautrec in the department of the Tarn, first published in the “Revue du Tarn”, n° 192, Winter 2004 (see under Documents)


Gérard Gobitz’s testimony
The account of Gérard Gobitz (Foreign Jews in the Unoccupied zone – 1940-1942), deported from the Tarn with 222 people, including 34 children and adolescents (Convoy 30, September 9, 1942, and 31, September 11, 1942). Author of “Les déportations de réfugiés de Zone Libre en 1942” (The Deportation of Refugees from the Unoccupied zone in 1942), Paris, published by L’Harmattan, 1996. Personal memories and historical facts revealed through research in the departmental archives in the former unoccupied zone.


Alain MICHEL: What is a Jewish scout? Jewish education is the movement of Israelite boy scouts in France, from 1923 to the early 1950s.
Les belles lettres | Archives juives - 2002/2 - N° 35 pages 77 à 10 A wide collection of data on the activities of the Jewish scouts in the Tarn during the second World War. Several photographs of the Rural "camp" in the Elms (Chantier rural des Ormes) in Lautrec Article available on line at: http://www.cairn.info/search.php?WhatU=scouts%20juifs&Auteur=&doc=N_AJ_352_0077.htm&ID_ARTICLE=AJ_352_0077&DEBUT=#HIA_1


Deportee, he painted Lectoure, Gurs, Drancy... Manfred’s last letters
Two articles devoted to Manfred Starkhaus, deported to Maidenak in convoy n° 50 La Dépêche du Midi – May 23, 2008


Courage in the Lithuanian turmoil. Memories of the Kovno ghetto.
Presentation and preface by Simone Veil of the work of Alex Faitelson, translated into French by Eve Line Blum.A source of information on Convoy 73, which included a few deportees from the Tarn.


Jacques Burko, translator and specialist in Polish literature
Jacques Burko, translator and specialist in Polish literature, died Monday, March 24, 2008.


Teaching the Shoah, an expert's advice.
Jacques Fijalkow, educator and researcher, speaks of pedagogical projects implemented in Castres and in Cua-Toulza. His reflections contribute to the discussion raised by the declarations of the French president Nicolas Sarkozy (that children in the last year of primary school "adopt" the memory of a French child murdered during the Shoah). La Dépêche du Midi, February 18, 2008:


Lucien Fayman – “Tenacious Owl”
The Jewish Scouts pay a glowing tribute to the memory of Lucien Fayman whose (emblematic name, or totem, was Tenacious Owl) who died at age 91 during the night of July 19 to 20, 2007.


Dora Schaul’s route in France: the path to freedom
Address delivered at the inauguration of the Dora Schaul Route, Brens, March 12, 2006. In three parts: Dora in Paris, Dora at Rieucros and Brens (1939-1942), Dora in Lyon: the Resistance (1942-1944).


Stay with us, Mother
Message addressed by the grandmother of a young girl, member of the Lacaune-Jewish Friendship Association. On the theme of the next Lacaune colloquium (October 2007), a text written by our granddaughter, Martine, in grade 5, not yet 11 years old.


Madeleine Bourgouin’s testimony
Madeleine Bourgouin was decorated Tuesday, February 2006, with the medal of the Righteous among nations. During the Second World War, she and her family hid Elisabeth Schneider and her three children in Saint-Affrique in the department of the Aveyron. Madeleine was 12 years old.


Camille Zoltobroda’s testimony
We had the choice of going either to Eaux-Bonnes in the Pyrénées or to Lacaune-les-Bains in the Tarn; my mother chose the latter...


Janine Goldberg’s testimony
How the Jews in my village were saved by Protestants. In February, 1943, a roundup was organised to arrest around fifty Jews living in forced relocation in the small town of Lacaune in the department of the Tarn. Only about twenty managed to escape.


Berthe Burko-Falcmann – A childhood in Lacaune: 1943-1944
Berthe Burko-Falcmann was forcibly relocated for the period of August 1943 to September 1944 and escaped the roundups thanks to the solidarity of the inhabitants of Lacaune-les-Bains, where she was living with her mother. She has published several accounts.


Odette Elina – Neither flowers nor wreaths
Odette Elina, Resistance fighter deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she lost her father, mother and her brother, lived with her family in Castres, then in Fiac, in the department of the Tarn. She carried out many missions during the war, notably maintaining links between writers for the Resistance. Her account of the barbarism in the camp and the liberation by the Russians, published in 1948, reveals astonishing strength: that of a woman painter who would not let herself be dispossessed of her culture and her humanity.


Jacques Lazarus’s testimony
Our Jewish Resistance – the Maquis in the Tarn grouped together, not far from Lacaune, in the place called “la Jasse de Martinou”. Our Maquis—the Jewish Army—was part of the group. Except from Arche (the Ark), n° 535, September, 2002.


The German Resistance in France
A documentary by Jean-Pierre Vedel, TGA Production, INA France 3 Sud. 52 minutes. During the Second World War, there were more than 1,000 German antifascists who volunteered alongside French Resistance fighters. Their presence in the Toulouse area and in the Tarn is brought to light.


Sébastien Martinez and Olivier Héral – The victims of the firing squad in Albine: Jacques Besse, Nicolas Blasquez, Marius Cardone and René Valette
Several Resistance fighters in the department of the Tarn were shot or summarily executed: Roger Arnaud, quarryman in Durfort, shot in Toulouse; Commander Gabriel Bousquet, from Carmaux; Lieutenant Raymond Lévy-Seckel, of the “Corps Franc de la Montagne Noire”, shot in Lespinassière in the department of the Aude; Boris Grajewski, member of the Patrice Maquis imprisoned while fighting at Teillet and shot in Castres June 29, 1944; four Resistance fighters shot in Albine, etc. This study is dedicated to these last victims.