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This study, which took over five years of intensive research, is written in French and based on hundreds of official records from the Vosges Prefecture. It provides a better understanding of the Machiavellian process which leads to the extermination of the Jewish community in the Vosges Department.

All the information collected in the Vosges Department was meticulously cross-checked with other studies and data bases, and has enabled the author to provide as yet unpublished lists of victims and survivors.

The author’s aim is to clearly show the Nazi’s strategy, to shed new light on the victims and their executioners and to provide the facts for future generations. The Vosges Department was the Nazi’s testing ground; such was its efficiency that it was to be extended to the whole of French national territory.

Official records and testimonies hold a major place in this work and provide a better understanding of the Nazi’s smooth-running organization. It allows us to reach our own conclusions.

Using genealogical investigations the victims' identity, family history and origins have been unveiled. Nearly all of the families can be found in the Martyrology with a note of the data collected for each.

The author, using proven documents, has paid great attention to the feeling of the non Jewish citizens who, in most cases, behaved with dignity and courage during each of the different stages of the physical elimination of the Jewish population of Vosges.

The author: Jean Camille Bloch, a steel industry manager at international level for over 40 years, was born in 1946 in the Strasbourg area. He belongs to a large family who settled in Alsace and in the Vosges over 300 years ago.
His family – like so many others – were decimated by the Nazi regime. For several years now, he has been a specialist in the history and genealogy of the Jewish Alsatian and Vosgian communities. In addition, he is the official delegate of GenAmi for Vosges and Alsace.