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Maurice Rajsfus is a Historien and a Militant French, born the April 9th 1928 with Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), author of about thirty books. Among the topics which it approached: the Shoah in France, the police force and breaches of liberty.

In 1994, it cofondé the Observatory of public freedoms, which it chairs.

Biography

Maurice Rajsfus is the son of parents Juif S Polish made to France at the beginning of the year 1920. They were married by the mayor of Aubervilliers, Pierre Laval, “then still pacifist lawyer”.

In July 1942, it is stopped with his parents at the time of the Rafle of the Cycle-racing track of Winter by a police officer “a time close to stage (...) When, in 1988, Rajsfus tries to approach it (“to include/understand”), the pensioner gets rid of it of brutal: “That does not interest me! ” It did not cease since incarnating this “police force of Vichy to last too present, without remorse and memory” (Pierre Marcelle). Maurice Rajsfus, who is then 14 years old, is slackened following an order excluding the Jews from 14 to 16 years of the raid. His/her parents will not return.

He was “Jeune Communist at 16 years, excluded to 18 for “hitlero-trotskism”, militant of the IVe Internationale before 1950, then group Socialisme or Cruelty with Lefort and Castoriadis, mobilizing the movement of the Inns of youth against the Guerre of Algeria since 1955 and chair Ras the Face of 1991 to 1999” (Pierre Marcelle).

One year after, on April 6th 1993, the young person Makomé Me Bowolé was killed out of “a ball in the head with touching end whereas he was questioned, handcuffed, with the police station of the Great Careers” (18th district of Paris), Maurice Rajsfus cofonde the Observatory of public freedoms, which notes in its monthly bulletin That made the police force? , the police burs.

For him, the bond between last and present is constant, in particular in the monitoring of the police force: “They flew the years of life to my parents. All took part in the Rafle S when they were necessary. Practically not only one did not resign. If the French police force had not been put at the orders, never there would not have been as many damage. There were 250.000 deportees of France, including 76.000 Jews, others being, essentially, of the Communists and the gaullists… And that to say of this police officer who, returning account with the prefecture of his mission, dares to write, on July 22nd: " Vél' of Hiv' is evacuated. There remained 50 sick Jews and from the lost objects, the whole was transferred to Drancy." ”

Having had only the certificate of studies a long time, since it left the college at 14 years, Maurice Rajsfus however passed a doctorate in Sociologie in 1992.

Works

Of the Jews in collaboration, the U.G.I.F. 1941-1944 , foreword of Pierre Vidal-Naquet, EDI, 1980 ISBN 2-851-39057-0
Black Thursday , Editions Harmattan. Paris, 1988 (on the Raid of the Cycle-racing track of Winter), ISBN 2738400396
Silences of the police force , with Jean-Luc Einaudi, on the raid of Vel' d' Hiv' and the Massacre of the Algerians in Paris of the October 17th 1961
Palestine, chronicle of the current events, 1988/1989 . Editions Harmattan
the Raid of Vél' of Hiv' , collection Which do I know? , editions PUF
does not forget the Baby Jesus! , The Jewish Catholic church and children (1940-1945) , Manya, 1994 ISBN 2-87896-096-3
the police force of Vichy, the French police force to the service of Gestapo 1940-1944 , Cherche Midi, 1995 ISBN 2-86274-358-5
the police force out the law, Of the thousands of burs without ordinances since 1968 , Cherche Midi, 1996 ISBN 2-86274-466-2
unknown Release, with each one its resistance , 2004 (on the Release and the Resistance)
Drancy, a very ordinary concentration camp, 1941-1944 . Seek-midday Editor, 2005 (on the Camp of Drancy) - ISBN 2862744352

A theatrical adaptation, the raid of Vél' d' Hiv , was carried out and played in 2003 by Philippe Ogouz according to three books of Maurice Rajsfus: Operation yellow star (Cherche Midi), Chronic of a survivor (Noésis), the raid of Vél' d' Hiv , (PUF).

Quotations

According to the periods, the police officers do not love the Jews or the Arabs. Whereas one allows me not to like the police force!
Pourquoi should I feel nearer to a Jewish banker than of a banker who would not be it?
Bousquet died, other immigrants are pursued, and me I do not feel very well.
Our grandfathers were persuaded of it: so that the Messiah returns on the ground of Palestine, it was necessary that all the Jews are gathered there. Without the least exception. As I would not be voyage, I risk, with me only, to make miss the appointment…

(texts drawn from subversive Aphorisms and sulfurous reflections , Paris the Mediterranean, 1999)

See too

External bonds

'' police burs '', forum of February 21st, 2006 with Maurice Rajsfus
Maurice Rajsfus with the Festival of the book of St-Etienne, October 2004
Files on line of the Observatory of public freedoms since April 1994

Sources and references