Récits de migration, récits de persécution. La « petite Turquie » entre mémoire et fiction

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This article tries to analyse how a Sephardic population coming from the Ottoman Empire and living the Nazi Occupation in France is constructing the memory of its immigration. Survivors have difficulty to give interest to their memories of the country of origin and of the first moments of their installation in the Parisian district called “La Roquette”. The narrative of their route is told as if it was an individual journey. But this mode of story telling reminds us of the way businessmen, who are numerous among Oriental Jews, are characterized as adventurous men. The article shows, first, through available archives, how the community and business territory was constructed in the Parisian district. Then, it analyses the denial, from the part of the survivors, of their Ottoman past and of its traces during the immigration period.