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Photos

A group of 27 political prisoners at the Châteaubriant camp. They were shot as hostages on October 22, 1941. Among them was Guy Moquet, a 17-year-old communist (standing, fifth from the right).

Executions of Resistance fighters by German soldiers in the clearing at Mont-Valérien.

The monument, created by Pascal Convert and unveiled in 2003, pays tribute to those executed by firing squad at Mont-Valérien. Engraved on it are the names of the 1,008 people executed by firing squad, listed in chronological order of execution.

Charles de Gaulle speaking on the BBC, between 1940 and 1943.

In Paris, in the Marais district, Jewish shops were closed by administrative order or destroyed by militants from collaborationist parties (1941).

A small sign reading “Jewish Business” was posted on shops and businesses owned by Jews under the Second Statute.

Appointment of an “Aryan” director to a “Jewish company” by the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs (June 13, 1941).

Identity card of a naturalized French citizen, canceled and stamped with the word “Jews” (January 12, 1941).

“Aryanized” businesses are marked with small signs for the public to see.

Requirement for Jews to display this sign: “Jewish Business.” Paris (3rd–4th arr.), May 1941.

The Nazi flag flying over the Opera House during the Occupation of Paris.

German soldiers sitting at a café terrace on a Parisian boulevard.

Identity Checks in Paris (1940–1945).

Soviet soldiers under German fire (September 1941).

Starting in late October 1941, Moscow was transformed into a fortress: 250,000 women and teenagers dug 8,000 km of trenches and anti-tank ditches.

German soldiers struggling to advance toward Moscow and battling “General Winter” in December 1941).

The sinking of the battleship West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship was recommissioned in 1944.

Explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw, which was in dry dock at the time, during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. 1941.

“Green Ticket” roundup on May 14, 1941. Summons issued to Chonko W., a Polish Jew who arrived in France in 1930. The arrested men were gathered at the Japy Gymnasium in Paris. Memorial plaque unveiled in May 2021.

The trial of the 44 Communist deputies (March 20–April 3, 1940), who were sentenced to imprisonment by a military court.

Foreign Jews were taken to the Austerlitz train station in Paris on May 14, 1941, from where they were sent to the camps at Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret).

On May 14, 1941, foreign Jews living in the 11th arrondissement were summoned to the Japy Gymnasium via the “green notice” for a “status review.”

The roundup of foreign Jews in Paris (the “green ticket” roundup, May 14, 1941): German soldiers and officers, gendarmes, and civilians on the platform at Austerlitz Station, before their departure for the Pithiviers camp.

The roundup of foreign Jews in Paris on May 14, 1941: They were loaded onto trains at Austerlitz Station bound for the camps in the Loiret, under the guard of French gendarmes and German soldiers.