PODCAST. Languedoc liberated: the hunt for Jews in Hérault

6 millions de Juifs périrent lors de la Shoah ML – MAXPPP

A doctor in history, Michaël Iancu is a specialist in contemporary Jewish history. Between deportations and spoliations, he explains to us relentlessly how the Jews of Hérault were discriminated against under Vichy.

After almost 2000 years of exile, and as much discrimination, European Jews experienced the height of anti-Semitism during the Second World War. The genocide of the Jews, organized by the Nazis, was made possible in France with the complicity of the far-right Vichy government, which deported more than 76,000 Jews.

Michaël Iancu rigorously reminds us how the Jewish community, established in Hérault since the beginning of the Middle Ages, almost disappeared, before rebuilding itself.