[Jewish refugee zone 1940-1943 - resistance center 1943-1945]

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After the 1940 armistice, Montpellier, which was in the unoccupied zone, became a center for Jewish refugees from the occupied part of France. After the latter was occupied by the Germans [[end of 1943 after the overthrow of the Italian government in Rome]] Montpellier became an important relaying station for the Jewish partisans

[[and many Jews were deported by collaboration of French police and French railway SNCF]].

After the liberation the community was reorganized and by 1960 had 600 members. The arrival of Jews from North Africa increased the number to 2,000 in 1963 [[by influx of Jews from North Africa]].>

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