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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 14 - Insurrection et Libération 

April–September 1944

Letter from Joseph Epstein to his son, written from Fresnes Prison on April 11, 1944, the day of his execution by the Germans at Mont-Valérien.

Document, April 11, 1944 © MRN-Champigny

Room

14.2 The Final Flickerings of Collaboration and Nazism

Period

1944

Document Type

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Documents from the same period

Photos

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

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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.

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

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

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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)

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