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Documents

CNR brochure titled “Les Jours Heureux,” published in June 1944, announcing the Resistance’s action plan, including immediate measures and those to be implemented upon Liberation.

Excerpt from “Les Jours Heureux”: Conditions for Implementing Immediate Action: Departmental Liberation Committees (CDL) and Armed Action.

Newsletter on the situation in France in January and February 1944, published by the Comité de la France Combattante in the United States, detailing the actions of the 35th Brigade in Toulouse.

UJRE Guidelines for the Jews of Lyon Regarding the Roundups and a Call to Join the Resistance. February 1944.

In late March 1944, the FTPF and the National Front analyzed the causes of the destruction of the Plateau des Glières maquis (Haute-Savoie) and condemned the strategy adopted by the non-communist Resistance.

Call from the UJRE to join the ranks of the French Internal Forces for the Liberation of France.

FFI membership card, issued in Lyon on November 29, 1944.

UJRE Demands for “Jews to Regain a Life as Free Men in a Liberated France” (April 1944).

Official Journal of the French Republic, April 22, 1944: The Establishment of Departmental Liberation Committees.

Appeal from the Versailles Liberation Committee.

Objectives of the Liberation Committees (Savoie, Spring 1944).

The first page of an unpublished inspection report by Cécile Cerf from a hideout of the Patriotic Militias of Saône-et-Loire.

National Front Newsletter, June 1944: Guidelines for the Formation of Patriotic Militias.

Call by the General Union of Immigrants to join the Patriotic Militias (Limoges, summer 1944).

Telegram dated April 6, 1944, from Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon, regarding the arrest of the staff and children of the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu and their transfer to Drancy.

Letter from Joseph Epstein to his son, written from Fresnes Prison on April 11, 1944, the day of his execution by the Germans at Mont-Valérien.

Instructions to the FTPF’s “combat units” for armed struggle at the time of the Allied landings (spring 1944).

List of armed operations carried out by UJRE combat units in the Lyon region from June to August 1944.

Testimony of Raymond Lévy, a survivor of the “ghost train,” journey: Toulouse, July 3 – Dachau, August 28, 1944.—Excerpt

Testimony of Raymond Lévy, a survivor of the “ghost train.” The 750 deportees endured a 54-day journey (Toulouse, July 3–Dachau, August 28, 1944). Excerpt

Diagram showing the route of the “ghost train” (July 3 to August 28, 1944).

Publication of the ordinance of April 21, 1944, on the organization of public authorities after the Liberation: Article 17 grants women, for the first time, the right to vote and to hold office.

The leadership of the M.O.I. in the Paris region called on “immigrant communist comrades” to wage a “relentless struggle” against the enemy (summer 1944).

Activity Report of the 4th FTP-M.O.I. Detachment in the Paris Region for the period from August 2 to 6, 1944.