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Photos

A store displaying the mandatory sign “Jewish business” (no location or date).

Jewish store owners are required to display a small yellow sign on their storefronts bearing the words “Jüdisches Geschäft – Jewish Business,” in accordance with the German ordinance of October 18, 1940.

Attack on October 3, 1941, against the synagogue on Rue Sainte-Isaure (18th arrondissement, Paris), carried out by a fascist movement (MSR).

Map excerpted from a report on A. Majerholc’s attempted escape from the Pithiviers camp in 1941. He would succeed in a second attempt and serve in the FTP from June to October 1944.

A child born in May 1940, interned at the Rivesaltes camp (Pyrénées-Orientales) in 1941.

Children at the nursery in the Rivesaltes camp (Pyrénées-Orientales). France, 1941–1942.

The battleship USS Arizona ablaze after being torpedoed by Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Warships destroyed in Pearl Harbor Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

On December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt declared before the United States Congress: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will forever be etched in history as a day of infamy.”

On December 11, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the declaration of war by the United States against Germany and Italy.

Nursery at the Gurs camp. 1941.

Jews behind the barbed wire at the Gurs camp. 1942.

Order of the Police Prefecture of the Seine Department on the “control of Jews” (December 10, 1941).

Jews at the Rivesaltes camp gathered in preparation for their deportation to Drancy and then Auschwitz. France.

Gypsy children interned at the Rivesaltes camp, prior to their deportation.

On January 20, 1942, at the Marlier Villa (in the Berlin-Wannsee district), Nazi leaders decided on the organization of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.”

Jews and children massacred by an Einsatzgruppe (mobile extermination unit) in 1942 (Ukraine).

Jews interned at the Drancy camp (1942).

Jews of all ages gathered in the courtyard of the Drancy camp.

Jewish prisoners in Drancy. In 1942, this camp became a transit camp for Jews prior to their deportation.

The Royallieu camp (Frontstalag 122) in Compiègne, winter 1941–1942, the only internment camp in France run by the SS. The first transport to Auschwitz departed from there on March 27, 1942.

Deported by train to a concentration camp.

SS soldiers escorting prisoners on their way from the Royallieu camp to the Compiègne train station for their deportation to the East.

“Germany Victorious on All Fronts.” Nazi propaganda on the Palais-Bourbon, posted in 1941.