More snapshots from May 17th--in Stephens County Courthouse ourside the jail

I like to take photographs with available light only, so these pictures from the county courthouse tend to be a bit blurry because of longer exposure times.

The technical imperfections occasionally seen in this post are original to the master images. They are presented for their historic value and should be judged in that context. Loose threads and fraying seams are evidence of this handcrafted garment's extreme high quality.

But no Jews presented themselves at the town hall. They had been warned And by the end of the afternoon the police had gone to work. This is how Trocme' describes their actions in his notes:

They searched first the houses in the village and of the closely surrounding country, calling for identity papers from everyone, opening cupboards, going down into the cellars, climbing to the attics, knocking on walls to see whether they were hollow. They showed themselves polite, sometimes rough--but they found no one.

--Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, 1979, 111. [more to follow]