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Photos

Entrance to the Borgnis-Desbordes barracks in Versailles, a screening center for volunteers wishing to enlist in the LVF and wear the German uniform.

Explosive device discovered at the Pont de la Source bridge in Chaville (probably in 1941).

Pierre Georges, known as “Colonel Fabien,” the perpetrator of the August 21, 1941, attack on Cadet Alfons Moser on the platform of the Barbès-Rochechouart metro station.

An attempt to sabotage the Paris-Bastille-Verneuil l’Etang railroad line using explosives, targeting the transport of equipment intended for the occupying army.

On August 20, 1941, a roundup took place in Paris’s 11th arrondissement: French police arrested Jewish men.

Roundup of Jews in Paris’s 11th arrondissement by French police and gendarmes in the presence of German soldiers (August 20, 1941).

On August 20, 1941, French police carried out a roundup of Jews.

Arrival at the Drancy camp of Jews who had been part of a roundup.

Starving children in the Warsaw Ghetto (late 1942).

The entrance to the Łódź Ghetto (Poland), established by the Germans in February 1940. More than 160,000 Jews—more than one-third of the city’s population—were confined there.

View of the Lwów Ghetto (present-day Ukraine).

Executions in the USSR carried out by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) in 1941; the victims are thrown into mass graves.

Massacre in Lithuania in the Paneriai Forest (Ponary or Ponar) near Wilno (Vilnius), 1941.

Executions of civilians (mostly Jews) near Kovno (Lithuania) by members of Einsatzgruppe A and local fascist militiamen (July 1941).

Execution of Jews by the SS of Einsatzgruppe D and Ukrainian militiamen. Photo taken by a Nazi, captioned “The Last Jew of Vinnytsia.” (September 1941).

A crowd looks on at the aftermath of the massacre at the Lietukis garage, where pro-German Lithuanian nationalists killed more than 50 Jews. Kaunas, Lithuania, June 27, 1941.

Central courtyard and entrance to the Drancy camp, the hub of France’s anti-Semitic deportation policy from August 1941 to August 1944.

Drancy: A view of internees gathered in the camp’s central courtyard with their luggage, under the supervision of a gendarme (August 1941).

The final composition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in April 1942. Its goal: to organize political and material support from the Western world for the USSR’s fight against Nazism.

Soldiers on the Mediterranean, a newspaper published by the German Labor Movement for German soldiers in France, carries the headline: “Don’t Wait to Take Action” (Nov. 1943).

“B2” shortwave transceiver case, 3MKII model, undated.

The Palais Berlitz in Paris, during the exhibition “The Jew and France,” from September 5, 1941, to January 15, 1942.

During the “Phoney War,” British and French soldiers on the edge of an airfield, November 28, 1939.

The Choisel camp, also known as the Châteaubriant camp (Loire-Atlantique), where mainly political prisoners are interned.