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Documents

Publication in the Official Journal of September 27, 1939, of the decree banning the Communist Party (September 26).

Hana C., a Russian Jew and volunteer soldier, was arrested on June 30, 1941, and shot on December 15, 1941, at Mont-Valérien (Suresnes) as a Soviet citizen and hostage.

Israel G., a Polish Jew and communist sympathizer, served as a volunteer and was executed by firing squad on December 15, 1941, at Mont-Valérien (Suresnes).

Police seals on the documents found at Mathilde Péri’s home on March 27, 1940. Her husband, Gabriel Péri, was executed by the Nazis on December 15, 1941, for being a communist.

Call by Charles Tillon, a member of the PCF leadership, for the fight against fascism and the formation of a people’s government, June 17, 1940.

The law of July 22, 1940, allowed for the revocation of French citizenship from those who had obtained it since 1927.

Example of revocation of citizenship under the law of July 22, 1940.

On July 29, 1940, the SNCF acted in advance of the law of October 3, 1940, concerning the “status of Jews.” Correspondence between SNCF management and the “German Army Transportation Directorate.”

On September 26, 1940, the town hall of Champigny-sur-Marne, at the request of the Germans, began conducting a census of the “Israelites.”

Secret report on the humiliations inflicted on the Jews of Mulhouse by the Germans beginning in the summer of 1940.

First anti-Jewish measures taken by the German military command on Sept. 28, 1940.

At the request of Louis Gronowski and Jacques Kaminski (national leaders of the M.O.I.), former editors of *Naïe Presse* and executives from the former Jewish Section of the M.O.I. founded “Solidarité.”

Police report dated Oct. 7, 1940, translating certain excerpts from *Unzer Wort*, dated Sept. 29, 1940, an underground Yiddish newspaper published by the Jewish section of the M.O.I.

Titles and print runs of clandestine communist publications distributed in Paris’s 14th arrondissement between October 1940 and January 1941.

Circulation figures for*L’Humanité clandestine* in four Parisian arrondissements from October 1940 to January 1941.

Draft of the “Law on the Status of Jews,” annotated in Pétain’s own hand. Document made public on October 3, 2010, by Serge Klarsfeld (pages 1 and 2).

“Law on Foreign Nationals of the Jewish Race” of October 4, published in the Official Journal on October 18, 1940.

Savoie Prefecture: Individual declaration for the implementation of the law of October 3, 1940, which was still in effect in 1943.

Handwritten letter from Senator Pierre Masse to Marshal Pétain regarding the ban on Jews serving as officers.

Instructions from the Communist International dated April 26, 1941, modifying the PCF’s line and calling for the creation of a National Front to fight for the liberation and independence of France.

Police report dated October 28, 1940, containing translations of excerpts from issue No. 23 of*Unzer Wort* (written in Yiddish).

A brochure from the French Francs-tireurs and Partisans (FTPF) outlining safety guidelines for members of the organization.

Call for the creation of the National Front for the Struggle for France’s Independence in the May 1941 issue of *Cahiers du Bolchévisme*.

Letter from the Paris Public Prosecutor to the Minister of Justice confirming the executions of hostages by German troops (Dec. 11, 1942).