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When Paris was liberated from the Nazi occupation in 1944, an album of 85 photographs was found in a shop that had been used by German soldiers assigned to the Furniture Operation (Möbel Aktion), the official name for pillaging apartments that had been inhabited by Jews. The snapshots reveal a surreal display of furniture and everyday household goods as if it were an Ikea supermarket, merchandised to catch the shoppers eye. Except in this case, the shopper was the Nazi, the sales assistants were Jewish prisoners and the product on sale had been looted from their Parisian homes.
Most of these photographs were taken inside a Parisian department store called Lévitan, opened by a Jewishman called Wolf Levitan in the 1930s to specialise in furniture. Located at 85-87 Rue Faubourg Saint Martin in the 10th arrondissement, the building was confiscated from its former owner by the Nazis. Below is a photo of how the store looked before the Nazis moved in.
Everything had been left behind, even down to the cash registers. But not only did Lévitan become a place for Nazi worthies to browse stolen Jewish household goods, picking out things for themselves before being sent off to Germany, the former furniture store also became one of the several Nazi forced labour camps inside occupied Paris, known as the Lévitan camp
While the first three floors were used for the stock, the fourth was used as a rudimentary dormitory for the 795 Jewish prisoners who were employed there between 1940-1944, selected from the Drancy internment camp in the northern suburbs (the last stop before being sent to an extermination camp)."
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https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/10/08/inside-the-paris-department-store-where-nazis-shopped-for-stolen-jewish-goods/?fbclid=IwAR2zItsJkKXh5MtZyNbCP1rhy1LvuaS0UyPDZ3jswFMtZugpOCADEN_xvDQ
dalton99a
(81,648 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,969 posts)Especially the color postcard with the nazi flag and US flag hanging on the front of the house.
moondust
(20,017 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Hekate
(90,896 posts)Muslim, Christian, and Jewish -- mostly Jewish, and would provide ID papers "proving" they were Muslim. The Mosque complex takes up a city block and has extensive caverns beneath it.
There's a 2011 film about it called Free Men.