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Photos

Resistance fighters from the “Youth Battalions,” arrested by French police officers from the Special Brigades, sentenced by a German court sitting at the Palais-Bourbon (March 4–6, 1942), and executed by firing squad on March 9.

German propaganda image of the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie (April 7–14, 1942): the Nazi military judges and, in the foreground, the defendants with their hands cuffed.

Nine members of the Organisation Spéciale (OS) were sentenced to death during the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie; the tenth, Conrado Miret-Must, died under torture before the trial.

German propaganda image of the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie: the defendants being transported under the guard of German soldiers on April 8, 1942.

German propaganda image depicting the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie (April 7–14, 1942). The Nazi judges sentenced 27 communists to death: 16 from the “Youth Battalions” and 9 from the “Organisation Spéciale” (OS).

German propaganda image depicting the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie (April 7–14, 1942). Simone Schloss, a member of the OS, was sentenced to life imprisonment and was guillotined on July 17, 1942, in Cologne.

A scene from daily life after June 7, 1942, when Jews were required to wear the yellow star.

Jews wearing the Star of David in Paris’s Marais neighborhood in 1942.

Playground reserved for children; Jews prohibited. Paris, November 1942.

A roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942 carried out by French police officers.

In front of the Vélodrome d’Hiver (“Vel’ d’Hiv'”), Paris, 15th arrondissement, the buses used to transport the rounded-up Jews (July 17, 1942). The only photograph of the roundup.

Jews in the courtyard of the Drancy camp, a hub for deportations to extermination camps.

Aerial view of the Pithiviers camp (Loiret), an internment camp for Jews beginning in April 1941.

Barracks 14 and 15 at the Beaune-la-Rolande camp (Loiret).

Inside a barracks at the Beaune-la-Rolande camp (summer of 1941).

The entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

The arrival of deportees at Auschwitz-Birkenau: the separation of men (on the right) from women and children (on the left), before selection for labor or the gas chambers.

View of the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp in occupied Poland.

Young Jews, evacuated from an internment camp, took refuge at the OSE’s “Maison des Pupilles de la Nation” in Aspet. Some of the children are on their way to Switzerland, summer 1942.

Staff at the Amelot Committee’s clinic help Jews on the run by providing them with false identification and fake ration cards. They also care for children placed with foster families.

A major demonstration took place on July 14, 1942, in Lyon to protest against the Vichy regime and the German Occupation.

A group of Jewish Scouts caring for Jewish refugee children.

On August 26, 1942, in Lyon, 1,016 Jews considered stateless were arrested and then interned at the Vénissieux camp (photo taken on August 27).

Rescue of Jewish Children - Vénissieux

The Vénissieux camp, used to intern stateless Jews following the large-scale roundup of August 26, 1942, in Lyon.