Toutes les salles

The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

Against Fascism | Outbreak of War

Jan 1940 - Sept 1940

The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”

Sept 1940 - June 1941

State Antisemitism | Responses

June - August 1941

Armed resistance

August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

Persecutions | The Resistance

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

July 1942 - Feb 1943

Rescue of Jewish Children 

August 1942 - May 1943

Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Creation of the UJRE

Jan 1943 - Mar 1944

Repression | The Major Surveillance Operations

Apr 1943 - March 1944

Unification of the Resistance

Insurrection and Liberation

Oct 1944 - Nov 1945

End of the War | Reconstruction

Salle 4 - State Antisemitism | Responses

Sept. 1940 – June 1941

Handwritten letter from Senator Pierre Masse to Marshal Pétain regarding the ban on Jews serving as officers.

Letter, Oct. 20, 1940 © National Archives_72AJ/35-72AJ/89

Room

4.1 The Early Status of the Jews

Period

1940

Document Type

Keywords

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Geographic area

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Source

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visit the hall 4 - State Antisemitism | Responses

Documents from the same period

Documents

“Law on Foreign Nationals of the Jewish Race” of October 4, published in the Official Journal on October 18, 1940.

Leaflets/Flyers

Anti-Semitic leaflet distributed by the Institute for the Study of Jewish Issues.

Documents

Draft of the “Law on the Status of Jews,” annotated in Pétain’s own hand. Document made public on October 3, 2010, by Serge Klarsfeld (pages 1 and 2).

Leaflets/Flyers

Flyer by Communist students calling for a demonstration against the Gestapo’s arrest of the anti-fascist physicist Paul Langevin.

Leaflets/Flyers

Flyer seized during a search. 1941.

Newspapers

Following the Montoire meeting (October 24, 1940), the October 26 issue of L’Œuvre celebrated Franco-German collaboration.