Citizenship revoked · Algeria · 1940–1943
Vichy removed Jewish citizenship; the Allied landings did not immediately restore it.
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1940–1943
Citizenship revoked · A right held for decades is crossed out
Vichy removed Jewish citizenship; the Allied landings did not immediately restore it.
7 October 1940
Vichy repealed the Crémieux decree, stripping the Jews covered by it of French citizenship. Further laws excluded Jews from professions and education. A person could lose the legal basis of participation through a state decision. The regime treated ancestry as more important than decades of citizenship.
The classroom closes
Anti-Jewish quotas and exclusions removed children from schools and adults from livelihoods. Families organized alternative forms of education under severe constraints. The practical consequence of racial policy was not merely a label: it narrowed a child’s future and a household’s ability to survive.
Restoration takes another year
The Allied landings in November 1942 ended Vichy control locally, but did not immediately restore the Crémieux decree. Citizenship was reinstated in October 1943. This delay shows why a military liberation and the restoration of a specific right are different events.