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Documents

The Jewish Patriotic Militias of Paris announce the formation of an FTP company named “Rajman” (Rayman). August 29, 1944.

PCF (M.O.I.) Guidelines for the Formation of Jewish Combat Units (August 14, 1944).

Post-uprising tally of Jewish Communist Resistance fighters: killed in action, shot, deported. Sept. 1944

A call from the Jewish section of the M.O.I. to join the “Rayman Company” to continue the fight.

A letter dated Sept. 30, 1944, mentioning the upcoming departure for the front of the Rayman Company, into which Victor Zigelman has been assigned.

Letter from the UJJ in Marseille (October 2, 1944) requesting a list of Jews who were arrested in southern France and released upon the liberation of the Drancy camp.

Drawing by the communist engraver Pierre Provost, an active participant in the Buchenwald camp uprising (April 11, 1945).

Letter from the UJJ dated October 3, 1944, to the Rector of Paris requesting measures to assist Jewish students who were victims of racial persecution and demanding the removal of anti-Semitic faculty members.

Decree No. 11 of September 3, 1944 (the day of Lyon’s Liberation) issued by the Regional Commissioner of the Republic for the Lyon region, repealing all measures of racial discrimination.

The two pages of the German surrender document, signed in Reims on May 7, 1945, by General Jodl on behalf of the German army, and countersigned by the Allied representatives.

Record of Paulette Szlifke (Sarcey), who was arrested by French police, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 23, 1943, liberated by the Americans on May 2, 1945, at Ravensbrück, and repatriated to France on May 23.

Letter dated February 26, 1945, from the UJRE to the OSE announcing the establishment of a clinic in Paris’s 18th arrondissement.

Telegram dated May 21, 1945, announcing the return of deportee Jean Laveille to Mussidan in the Dordogne.

The UJRE has announced a meeting at the Mutualité (5th arrondissement, Paris) on April 10, 1945, where Anna Stoklamer, a survivor, will provide information about the deportees from Auschwitz and Birkenau.

UJJ Membership Card, 1944–1945.

Charles Lederman announced that the First UJRE Congress would be held on April 14 and 15, 1945.

The Yiddish language: a language in its own right (originating in the year 1000)

Members of the UJRE and the Bund (Jewish socialist movement) of the Paris Committee for Unity declare that they are “working toward unity.” In Yiddish. (June 1, 1945).

The Estates-General of the French Renaissance, organized by the CNR (July 10–14, 1945).

As early as September 3, 1944, the Paris Police Prefect issued a warning regarding the arrest of “servants and accomplices of the enemy” by anyone other than law enforcement officers.

A child’s account of his father’s deportation.

The UJRE calls for vengeance for the millions of Jews who were massacred and for people to take up arms (excerpt).

Cover of a brochure containing the program of the “People’s Front Against Poverty and Fascism, for Bread, Peace, and Freedom.”

Table listing the racial definitions derived from the Nuremberg Laws of September 15, 1935.

Cover of the brochure for the World Congress for the Preservation of Yiddish Culture. Title in Yiddish: “Paris.” (1937)