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Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles

  • Written by Shannon Fogg, Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdlesFurniture confiscated from Jewish homes is delivered to other people in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in April 1942, after an Allied bombing.Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images

In 1945, an angry mob confronted Aba Mizreh and four of his sons outside their former home in Paris. The Jewish family had hidden in Lyon during World War II, only to learn...

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