(The english version of the book is not available as yet) The cover illustration shows a registration session of Jewish foreigners rounded-up in Paris and interned in Pithiviers in May 1941 - it is in a similar manner that registration took place in Saint Cyprien, and in other French camps as well (photo credit : CDJC – Paris, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine) Publisher : Alice Editions – Brussels (october 2006) Collection : History Language : French ISBN: 2874260444 EAN : 9782874260445 Dimensions: 480 pages - format 14 x 3 x 24 cms - b/w photos and documents Distribution: Belgium : La Caravelle - France : Volumen Sold in bookshops and available from websites, search: Marcel Bervoets Cyprien The author Marcel Bervoets-Tragholz was born in Antwerp (Belgium) on October 10th.1941, the Jewish son of Sonya Leibovitche whose parents had settled there in the mid-thirties having fled the pogroms in Rumania and of Hans Tragholz, who fled Austria in September 1938 to take refuge in Belgium after escaping from the nazi persecutions which started in Vienna after the Anschluss in March 1938. Having decided to investigate the fate of his family during WW II - his father was deported and died in Buchenwald in April 1945 - he discovered that Hans had in fact been removed already in August 1939 from his legal residence to an internment centre near Antwerp and that on May 10th. 1940 he was, together with his brother Otto, sent to a camp in South-Eastern France, Saint Cyprien, close to Perpignan. Trying to understand what had happened he interrogated various belgian political, academic and historical institutions, but as he obtained no satisfactory answer, this prompted him to undertake his own investigation the result of which he published in his book “The List of Saint Cyprien” After having worked for more than 20 years in numerous African countries, he now lives with his wife Patricia in Aix-en-Provence and devotes most of his time in researching the fate many members of his family suffered under the nazi regime. Résumé La Liste de Saint-Cyprien is an exhaustively documented book on the circumstances and events surrounding the fate of what turned out to concern more than 8,000 foreign Jewish refugees living in Belgium following Germany's invasion of that country on May 10th, 1940. On that same day, the Belgian authorities rounded-up the mostly German and Austrian Jewish refugees who had fled their countries in the wake of Hitler's increasingly anti-Semitic legislation and had them deported to the south of France. The book focuses on more than 4,500 identified Jewish victims sent to Saint-Cyprien and includes a list of the deportees that provides names, dates and places of birth, last address in Belgium and the other camps to which they were sent. The author who never got to know his father, spent years researching this invaluable work, which unflinchingly outlines the facts and the role of the Belgian authorities in helping seal the fates of the deportees. No less descriptive is his account of the living conditions in the camp, supported by authenticated documents discovered by him while undertaking his research. His remarkable book rebuilds the political and historical environment prevailing in Belgium and in France between 1933 and the outbreak of WW II and includes as yet unpublished revelations on the complicity of the highest Belgian political and adminstrative authorities supported by haunting personal testimonies contained in handwritten letters, notes and diaries. Namelist of foreign Jewish refugees living in Belgium and deported between May 10th and 15th 1940 to South-Eastern France and detained in the internment camp of Saint- Cyprien. WARNING This list is restricted to personal and individual consultation and may under no circumstances be utilized for any other purpose. It is integral part of the book and therefore protected by the usual copyright rules which i.a states that « reproduction or use of any part of the book by whichever means is strictly prohibited » Anyone interested in using the list must obtain prior authorization from the author via a demand channeled through USHMM Washington. Compared to the list in the book, an additional 100 names have been added resulting from research completed after publishing. Items 10 and 11 are also additional. How to read this list: 1 - name 2 - surname(s) 3 - place of birth 4 - date of birth * significantly different year of birth originating from a source other than the primary one 5 - town of last declared residence - in most cases corresponds to the place of arrest - places such as Hal, Marneffe, Merksplas are the internment centres in Belgium wherefrom a vast number of detainees were extracted to be deported – the address in between brackets is the last known one before being removed to the centre 6 - last declared residential address (not necessarily the last or only one) 7 - passage via transit camps in France on the way to Saint-Cyprien 8 - date of death in Auschwitz - is about the same as departure date from Drancy (deportation centre near Paris) where the prisoners arrived from Gurs and coming from Saint-Cyprien after the camp was devastated at the end of October 1940 9 - means that there is a personal individual file available from the archives in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) 10 - liberation date from the camp of Saint-Cyprien and/or transfer to other locations or handed-over to German authorities, escaped etc. 11 - personal family data a) surname of the father b) name and surname of the mother c) name and surname of the spouse d) number of children Meaning of the abbreviations: s. l sans lieu - means that the place is unknown s. d sans date - means that the date is unknown -, means that the name and/or surname is unknown The book contains also the following lists: 1) anti-jewish measures taken in Germany between 1933 and May 10th 1940 2) arrests of persons before or beyond the age date-limit of the ministerial decree (less than 17 years old, more than 60) 3) residents in Belgium for 5 years or more on May 10th 1940 4) origin of Jewish refugees living in Belgium 5) detainees in Belgian internment centres before or from September 1939 onwards 6) urban distribution of deported refugees 7) location of various detention camps in France 8) thefts committed at the time of arrest, during the voyage between Belgium and France and when entering transit camps on the way to Saint-Cyprien 9) detainees of Saint-Cyprien hospitalized in Perpignan between June and October 1940 10) repartition of detainees per compound and barracks 11) deportees from Saint-Cyprien to the camp of Gurs having passed through Argelès-sur-Mer 12) internment camps visited by the Kundt Commission 13) deportees deceased in various South-Eastern French camps L’illustration de la couverture représente une séance d’enregistrement de Juifs étrangers raflés à Paris, à l’entrée du camp de Pithiviers en mai 1941 ; c’est de manière identique que s’est déroulé ce type d’opération au camp de Saint-Cyprien ainsi que dans d’autres camps d’internement en France (crédit : CDJC – Paris, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine) Editeur : Alice Editions – Bruxelles (octobre 2006) Collection : Histoire(s) Langue : Français ISBN: 2874260444 EAN : 9782874260445 Dimensions: 480 pages - format 14 x 3 x 24 cms - Photos noir et blanc, documents d’époque. Couverture souple pelliculée. Distribution: Belgique : La Caravelle - France : Volumen Vente en librairies et par sites internet sur mots-clés : Marcel Bervoets Cyprien L’auteur Né en 1941 à Anvers, Marcel Bervoets , licencié en Philologie romane, a vécu plus de vingt ans en Afrique avant de regagner l'Europe en 1984 pour s'installer à Aix-en-Provence. Reconverti dans le tourisme, il devient conseiller de la ville de Marseille. Ne résistant pas à l'appel de l'Afrique, il repart en 1995 pour s'installer à Zanzibar où il occupe la fonction de conseiller auprès du Ministère du Tourisme jusqu'en 2000, année au cours de laquelle il décide de mettre un terme à trente-cinq ans de pérégrinations. Il s'installe définitivement à Aix-en- Provence où, depuis 2003, il consacre une bonne partie de son temps à des recherches liées à son passé familial fortement marqué par les effets du nazisme. Présentation Dès l'aube du 10 mai 1940, avant même l'offensive éclair des troupes de Hitler, plus de 8 000 Juifs réfugiés en Belgique - dont plus de 4 500 seront identifiés - ont été déportés par les autorités de leur pays d'accueil vers le Sud de la France. Parmi eux, un Autrichien, Hans Tragholz, le père de l'auteur, que ce dernier n'a pas connu ; il est mort à Buchenwald en 1945. Un silence de plomb recouvre, depuis lors, cet épisode collectif particulièrement sombre. Tout au long d'une enquête menée avec détermination pendant trois ans à partir d'une découverte inattendue, Marcel Bervoets veut comprendre ce qui s'est réellement passé. Quelles circonstances, quelles raisons - d'Etat, ou autres - ont conduit son père et ses compagnons d'infortune dans les villages de Saint-Cyprien et d’Argelès- sur-Mer, près de Perpignan, au camp d'internement de Gurs, dans le Béarn, et, au-delà, pour beaucoup, sur le chemin de la mort ? Le résultat de cette enquête méticuleuse, preuves irréfutables et documents officiels à l'appui, est implacable. Et bouleversant. Car c'est aussi à travers des lettres, notes, suppliques, journaux intimes, que La liste de Saint-Cyprien raconte le destin tragique de ces milliers d'individus, victimes de la vilenie des hommes. Un épisode inédit de notre histoire. Un document exceptionnel. Extrait de l'introduction : (...) Peu après avoir quitté Perpignan, ma mère a insisté pour faire un détour par le village de Saint-Cyprien.