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The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

Against Fascism | Outbreak of War

Jan 1940 - Sept 1940

The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”

Sept 1940 - June 1941

State Antisemitism | Responses

June - August 1941

Armed resistance

August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

Persecutions | The Resistance

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

July 1942 - Feb 1943

Rescue of Jewish Children 

August 1942 - May 1943

Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Creation of the UJRE

Jan 1943 - Mar 1944

Repression | The Major Surveillance Operations

Apr 1943 - March 1944

Unification of the Resistance

Insurrection and Liberation

Oct 1944 - Nov 1945

End of the War | Reconstruction

Salle 8 - Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

Jan–Jul 42

A roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942 carried out by French police officers.

Photo, 1942, Paris © Holocaust Encyclopedia, USHMM, Washington/YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

Room

8.3 The “Solidarity” Appeal—The Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup

Period

1942

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Documents from the same period

Newspapers

Pitiwye Zaytung, a Yiddish newspaper published by the internees at the Pithiviers camp, June 1942.

Documents

A “top secret” ministerial telegram forwarded for execution by the prefect of the Dordogne, stating that the roundup of Jews was to take place on August 26, 1942, “preferably at daybreak.”

Leaflets/Flyers

A leaflet from “Solidarity” (the Jewish section of the M.O.I.) in Yiddish announcing the upcoming roundups and urging Jews to go into hiding and join the Resistance (late June 1942).

Photos

A scene from daily life after June 7, 1942, when Jews were required to wear the yellow star.

Videos

Activists from the Jewish section are working to warn the Jewish population of an impending roundup and the need to go into hiding. Testimony by Robert Endewelt.

Photos

Aerial view of the Pithiviers camp (Loiret), an internment camp for Jews beginning in April 1941.