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Documents

Letter from the OSE dated November 26, 1941, certifying the appointment of Charles Lederman as Director of the Lyon office, with the mission of working toward the liberation of the children.

Excerpt from General de Gaulle’s speech to the BBC (London) on October 23, 1941

Internal UJRE circular and questionnaire addressed to local leaders to improve the flow of information (June 1943).

Publication in the Official Journal of the law of March 29, 1941, establishing the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs.

A compendium published by the Vichy regime in 1941: it lists the activities prohibited to any person of “Jewish race” living on French territory.

Guide to Legislation on Jewish Issues: “How to Determine Jewish Status.”

A Guide to Legislation on Jewish Matters for Mayors and Police Officers.

Certificate of Non-Jewish Status issued on August 27, 1941, by the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs.

Municipal ordinance of the town of Montignac concerning the “census of Jews,” July 21, 1941.

Census of the Jews of Marseille, July 22, 1941.

Letter from the Prefect of Dordogne, marked “Secret and Highly Confidential,” regarding the census of Jews (December 30, 1940).

SNCF instructions dated June 23, 1941, regarding the registration of Jews and their dismissal.

Handwritten report by Joseph Epstein to the Communist International (June 1941).

“Concentration” record for Abram Kreps, a Polish Jew, following the issuance of the “green ticket.”

Internment record (May 14, 1941) for Abram Kreps at the Pithiviers camp, barrack 10.

Nir Frajolla, a Polish Jew, volunteered for the Foreign Legion and was detained in Pithiviers in 1941–42.

Call for the Unity of the Peuple de France for Liberation (February 13, 1943)

Call by the National Front of Seine-Inférieure (Seine-Maritime) to fight the Occupation by any means necessary (March 1943).

Underground organizations that emerged from the Jewish section of the M.O.I. (September 1940–November 1944)

UJJ Manifesto Calling on Young Jews to Join the Struggle (April 1943). Excerpts

Summary of the distribution of leaflets and flyers by the UJJ in November 1943. Excerpt

“Le Chant des Partisans,” which became the anthem of the Resistance, was written in 1943 in London by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon, set to music composed by Anna Marly in 1941.

Identity card of Marcel Langer, commander of the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade (Toulouse).

Certificate of membership in the FFI, issued to Raymond Lévy of the 35th Marcel Langer Brigade, dated 1952.