For some time now, the families of internees have tried a number of approaches to obtain their family members' freedom. We have observed that numerous Jews presented themselves daily at the offices of the Prefecture of Police, the City Hall, and the Prefecture of the Department of the Seine to demand that their spouses be liberated for reasons of health, family affairs, or because of their materials situation […]
On July 25, 1941 at approximately 14:30, about one hundred Jewish women, most of whom did not even speak French, entered the headquarters of the Committee (the Jewish Welfare Committee created by the occupying forces) demanding the liberation of their husbands and reimbursement of the sum that they had spent attempting to have them freed. […]
On July 28 at 15:00, new protests were held in front of the Committee's offices. A hundred or so pregnant women and mothers, accompanied by young children, gathered in front of the building and attempted to enter the offices, where there were already about fifteen Jewish women. They were shouting "We want you to give us back our husbands. We cannot live any longer like this. We are dying of hunger…" During that time, the Jews inside the offices were breaking window panes and removing different objects.
Message from the "Kommandant von Gross-Paris" to the German Military Command (MBF) from the translation into German of a report on August 4, 1941 that originated with the Direction des Renseignements généraux et des Jeux (Directorate of General Information and Gambling). For the full French translation, see A. Rutkowski, La lutte des Juifs en France à l'époque de l'Occupation, 1975.