Phantoms of the Hotel Meurice

First and foremost, this book is a guide to the Holocaust in Paris. It shows, through photographs and maps, the persons who were actors in the events of the time and where important things happened. These places are marked and their sites a corresponding index identifying the nearby subway stops. In addition to showing these physical markers of the history, the book aims to help the reader to understand what happened. The author reviews the history of the German occupation...
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First and foremost, this book is a guide to the Holocaust in Paris. It shows, through photographs and maps, the persons who were actors in the events of the time and where important things happened. These places are marked and their sites a corresponding index identifying the nearby subway stops.

In addition to showing these physical markers of the history, the book aims to help the reader to understand what happened. The author reviews the history of the German occupation in Paris and France from the point of view of the experience of the Jews who were the victims of hatred, French and Nazi.

Third, the author presents his observation that massive denial of the occupation, and the French responses to it, is manifest in Paris. He argues that the denial is fundamentally the result of the resistance to the realization of the shameful behavior that was expressed by this people during the war. It is a stark fact that it was they, the French, and not the Germans, who killed 73000 Jews living in France. The French have not come to terms with this reality. In the final section of the book he offers his speculations as to the aspects of French culture that support this denial.