Paris 1940-1944The daily routine
of Parisians
under the Occupation

  • Paris 1940-1944, The Routine under Siege
  • Masters of the Image
  • The German Presence
  • Paris and Collaboration
  • Expositions
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Deliberately "Blurring Daily Life"
  • Paris is hungry, Paris is cold
  • Production
  • Labor Unions in Disarray
  • The War Goes On
  • Multiple Resistances
  • The Resistance Goes Public
  • Cracking Down
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  • The Original Exhibit at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris
  • Acknowledgements and credits
  • Accessibility
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  • Français / English
  • Indifference, rejection
  • Seducing, forbidding
  • The German Stranglehold
  • Looting
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In the Levitan camp


A collection of toys pilfered in apartments. In 1944, Helen and Samuel, two hidden children who escaped arrest, were able to visit their mothers, who were interned in the camp. Both mothers were deported to Bergen-Belsen in July 1944. They discretely gave each child a toy that they took from the collection, a doll for one child and a game of dominoes for the other. Toys that the Germans took from other children, perhaps other hidden children, or perhaps children who were deported and exterminated.
Cf. Sarah Gensburger, Images d'un pillage.
Album de la spoliation des juifs à Paris, 1940-1944, 2010 © Rights reserved