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Photos

Resistance fighters marching through the streets of Oyonnax on November 11, 1943.

Plaque at 182 Rue de Rivoli, where the National Council of the Resistance met in the spring of 1944.

Members of the CNR gathered around its president, Georges Bidault, who succeeded Jean Moulin following the latter’s arrest and death.

One of the attacks carried out by the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade in Toulouse, targeting the tram reserved for German soldiers near Purpan Hospital. (July 1944)

Railway sabotage in 1944, carried out by the FTP in southern Finistère.

Resistance fighters from the Voreppe Maquis (Isère) preparing to sabotage a railroad (1944).

The French Militia is hunting down members of the Resistance.

Execution of 23 members of the Resistance by German soldiers in Lantilly (Côte d’Or) on May 25, 1944.

Destruction of pylon No. 506 on the 1,500-kilovolt Bayet-Montluçon power line by members of the Resistance on April 13, 1944.

Sabotage carried out by the “Guignard” group on the night of August 22–23, 1944. Pierre Guignard, a communist, was a member of the FFI in the Deux-Sèvres department.

A stamp attesting to the existence of the Women’s Patriotic Militias, belonging to Cécile Cerf, an organizer of the women’s Resistance.

Armband of the Women’s Patriotic Militia, belonging to Cécile Cerf.

Summary of acts of sabotage carried out between January and August 1944 on the Montauban–Toulouse railroad line by the Louis Sabatié Maquis (a Communist member of the FTP-MOI in Montauban who was executed by the Vichy militia).

Civilians suspected of being members of the Resistance were arrested by the Vichy militia.

Mass grave from the massacres committed by the SS, a Nazi organization, from August 17 to 21, 1944 (109 victims), near Bron Airport (Lyon).

Mail delivery at the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu, summer 1943.

Children from the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu (summer 1943). On April 6, 1944, following a tip-off, Gestapo troops under the command of Klaus Barbie arrested the 44 children living there and 7 adults.

Executions at Mont-Valérien of 22 members of the “Manouchian group” on Feb. 21, 1944, and of Joseph Epstein, head of the FTPF in the Paris region, on Apr. 11. 1944. (Olga Bancic is beheaded in Germany)

Executions at Mont-Valérien in February 1944 of members of the Manouchian group. Photo taken secretly by German non-commissioned officer C. Ruther.

Boulevard Barbès in Paris after the Anglo-American bombing on April 21, 1944 (641 dead).

The area around the Douai train station after the Anglo-American bombing on April 30, 1944.

The General Committee for the Defense of the Jews of France calls for solidarity with persecuted Jews and for a joint struggle against Hitlerism, May 1944. (Excerpt)

On June 3, 1944, in Algiers, the French Committee for National Liberation became the Provisional Government of the French Republic (Official Journal of June 8, 1944).

The Allied landing in Normandy: Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944.