This article examines Jewish youth identity, gender, and ideology during the Holocaust in France in order to understand how young people responded to persecution. The author’s attempts to understand the youth perspective reveals that these adolescents’ experiences were distinct and varied, and each traversed complex and multifaceted paths through the war. Always in perpetual negotiation with other elements of their identities—such as their ideology, religion, and gender—for many, youth movements greatly impacted how they developed and matured into adulthood. Coming of age during the Holocaust meant not only enduring persecution, but also traditional discourses on the place of young people in society. Charting the trajectories of individual young people and Jewish youth groups within the context of the war, the Holocaust, and French Jewish history reveals their radicalized and accelerated wartime development. In researching this phenomenon, it becomes possible to decenter entrenched narratives of persecution and resistance and enhance our understanding of wartime gender roles, the impact of Judaism, and the various ideologies that informed these youths’ lives.

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为青年而竞争：法国大屠杀期间犹太童子军的身份、宗教和性别

本文探讨了法国大屠杀期间犹太青年的身份、性别和意识形态，以了解年轻人如何应对迫害。作者试图从年轻人的角度来理解，结果发现这些青少年的经历是独特而多样的，每个人都在战争中走过了复杂而多面的道路。对于许多人来说，青年运动始终与他们身份的其他要素（例如他们的意识形态、宗教和性别）进行永久的谈判，极大地影响了他们如何发展和成熟到成年。在大屠杀期间成年不仅意味着忍受迫害，还意味着关于年轻人在社会中的地位的传统话语。在战争、大屠杀和法国犹太历史的背景下描绘个体年轻人和犹太青年群体的轨迹，揭示了他们在战时的激进和加速发展。在研究这一现象时，有可能消除对迫害和抵抗的根深蒂固的叙述，并增强我们对战时性别角色、犹太教的影响以及影响这些年轻人生活的各种意识形态的理解。