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Photos

Starving prisoners at the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria (May 7, 1945), the day after the camp was liberated.

The arrival of the deportees at the Lutetia Hotel in Paris (May 1945).

Soviet soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin on May 2, 1945.

Generaloberst Alfred Jodl signing, on behalf of the Wehrmacht High Command, the documents formalizing Nazi Germany’s surrender in Reims on May 7, 1945.

Battle of May 8, 1945, heralding Germany’s surrender.

Spring 1945, at the Hôtel Lutetia, camp survivors consult a list of deportees whose families are searching for them.

In the municipal elections of April 29, 1945, French women voted for the first time, in accordance with the ordinance of April 21, 1944, issued by General de Gaulle’s Provisional Government in Algiers.

A parade of UJJ members on July 14, 1945. Among those present were Resistance fighters who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

The arrest of a collaborator by civilians in Rennes.

The painter Marc Chagall (center) at the Denouval manor in Andrésy, in 1946.

General de Gaulle’s second government included five Communist ministers (November 13, 1945).

Elections to the Constituent Assembly on October 21, 1945.

On February 6, 1934, far-right groups attempted a coup: rioters on the Place de la Concorde.

A demonstration by Republican veterans against the fascist threat, February 6, 1934.

Fascist demonstration in Paris following the events of February 6, 1934.

The Manoir de Denouval in Andrésy, acquired by the CCE on Dec. 28, 1945, took in Jewish orphans who had survived the deportations. Between 1945 and 1949, nearly 200 children aged 5 to 13 stayed at the manor.

A collage created by the Jewish orphans living at the Maison d’Andrésy.

Scenes from the Commission Centrale de l’Enfance (CCE) shelters for Jewish orphans in Le Raincy and Montreuil.

Scenes from the shelters run by the Commission Centrale de l’Enfance for Jewish orphans in Aix-les-Bains and Sainte-Maxime.

A meeting at the headquarters of the UJJ, affiliated with the M.O.I., on Boulevard des Belges in the Brotteaux neighborhood of Lyon, fall 1944.

The clandestine printing press of the Francs Tireurs and Partisans Français (FTP) in the Lot

UJJ youth enlisted in the 1st Rhône Regiment. Sept. 1944

Memorial to the Jewish children herded into the Vélodrome d’Hiver in July 1942 and exterminated at Auschwitz. Paris, 15th arrondissement.

Plaque commemorating those rounded up under the “green ticket” operation, interned in camps in the Loiret, and exterminated at Auschwitz. (Plaque at the Austerlitz train station in Paris).