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Documents

Letter from the Dean to the Rector of the Clermont-Ferrand Academy assuring him that the Faculty of Letters does not employ any Jews as civil servants (January 19, 1942).

The census of Jews who had entered France since January 1, 1936, in the Nice region (January 29, 1942).

A handwritten poem in Yiddish written in Beaune-la-Rolande on May 14, 1942.

A postcard written by an inmate of the Drancy camp on June 20, 1942, and mailed to his wife on the 22nd.

Back of the postcard: The prisoner announces that he will be deported that same evening at 7 p.m. He will not return.

Memo dated March 10, 1942, from T. Dannecker (SS captain in charge of “the Jewish question”), regarding the deportation to Auschwitz of Jews interned in Compiègne: instructions concerning the transport.

Summary of Safety Guidelines for Members of the Underground Communist Party (1942).

Second page of the summary of safety guidelines for members of the underground Communist Party (1942).

Official gazette of the German military authorities enacting the “Eighth Ordinance” of May 29, regarding the mandatory wearing of the Jewish star beginning Sunday, June 7, 1942.

The four FTP-M.O.I. “detachments” responsible for armed operations.

As mandated by the 8th German Ordinance of May 29, the wearing of the Jewish star—known as the “yellow star”—became mandatory as of Sunday, June 7, 1942.

Letter from the Prefect of the Seine to the Commissioner General for Jewish Affairs, dated June 10, 1942, regarding the segregation of Jews in the Paris Metro, at the request of the German authorities.

List of establishments and public places off-limits to Jews pursuant to the German ordinance of July 8, 1942.

List of “Aryan” individuals interned at Camp des Tourelles (Paris) for wearing the Jewish star out of “sympathy for the Jews” (June 20, 1942).

June 1942: House arrest order, issued in the southern zone pursuant to the law of October 4, 1940, concerning “foreign nationals of the Jewish race.”

French ID card stamped with the word “Jews.”

Copy of a memo from T. Dannecker, the Gestapo officer in charge of “the Jewish question” in Paris. Instructions dated July 4, 1942, regarding the organization of “the major operation” to arrest Jews in Paris.

Letter from the Paris Police Prefecture regarding the provision of 50 buses on July 16 and 17, 1942.

Memo from the Prefect of Police (July 22, 1942) following the evacuation of the Vél’ d’Hiv’.

Letter dated August 3, 1942, from the Secretariat of the Police in the Occupied Zone, regarding the separation of parents from their children in deportation convoys.

Official instructions issued by the French authorities regarding preparations for the transport of deportees in cattle cars. August 20, 1942.

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.”

Excerpt from an activity report, covering May through December 1942, from the 2nd Detachment (Jewish Detachment), detailing operations against the enemy in Paris.

The OSE secured permission from the prefecture for Jewish children under the age of 13 to be released from the Rivesaltes camp. More than 500 of them escaped deportation to the death camps (1942).