I’m happy to say I’ll be meeting in March with the staff of the Toulouse Resistance Museum and five other relatives of PRUNUS members. The mission of this network of resistance museums, which many French “départements” have, is to educate the public about two legacies: the (proud) history of resistance and the (shameful) history of the deportation of Jews and other “undesireables.”

The Toulouse Resistance Museum has lots of great artifacts:

Stamps made to create false identification papers and food ration tickets
The yellow star my grandparents were forced to wear after the whole of France was occupied.
The Museum’s display about Maurice Pertschuk and Marcus Bloom, his radio operator.

After reading about my research, the museum director invited a group of us to meet with researchers there. I’m so pleased that other members of PRUNUS families: Sonia Fayman, Jean-Louis Rey and Georges Beauchemin, will be joining us. We’re hoping to re-open the topic of French-British collaboration during the war, and SOE’s role in the resistance of the Toulouse region.

A blurry photo of the map of internment camps where foreign Jews and eventually French-born Jews were sent. You can see the concentration of such camps in the Toulouse area.

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