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February 5, 1942 – Copy of a letter from an individual to the Mayor of the Commune of BONE. That person’s name is not mentioned there. He specifies in the first place that he returns to the Mayor a note of November 25, 1941 by which it is notified to him that his children “should be regarded as Jews under the law and consequently counted as such”, apparently following a denunciation.

The individual, a Jew, then argues at great length, arguing for legal reasons (he cites the laws of June 25 and October 3, 1940, of June 2, 1941), social and personal reasons that his children born to a Catholic mother (daughter of a French officer) and brought up in this religion, cannot be considered as belonging to the Jewish race.

He concludes his letter by stating : “… It will not be, I think, in anyone’s power to prevent me from making my children good French citizens, no matter what. My essential desire is that they can also be, without restriction, good servants of the Country”. In postscript he asks that the name of the informer be communicated to him.