Le Calendrier Israélite pour l’annee 5703 (Jewish Calendar for the Year 5703 - 1942-43). Prepared by Sia (Joshua) Bindiger.

(HOLOCAUST).

Toulouse

1942

French text only. Few transliterated Hebrew prayers at end. With short list of Mohelim and Mikvahs in south-western France.

Rare Jewish calendar for the year 1942-43 issued by Sia (Joshua) Bindiger who also produced a Hagaddah and Machzor in wartime conditions. (See Kestenbaum Sale 49, Lot 154). Following the German occupation of all of France (November 1942), the area around Toulouse saw increased Jewish resistance, including acts of sabotage, the formation of fighting groups, the hiding of children and their transportation to safe havens, and stepped-up efforts to ferry Jews across the border to Spain en route to Palestine or England. However many Jewish men, women, and children fell victim to the Nazis and their French collaborators and were tortured to death or deported to Auschwitz.