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Leaflets/Flyers

“Appeal of July 10, 1940”: a text by the PCF, titled “Peuple de France,” distributed beginning in late July 1940.

Photos

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

Photos

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

Documents

“Concentration” record for Abram Kreps, a Polish Jew, following the issuance of the “green ticket.”

Notes

“Free France” – Overseas Resistance

Photos

“Germany Victorious on All Fronts.” Nazi propaganda on the Palais-Bourbon, posted in 1941.

Photos

“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.

Photos

“La Maison Haarscher,” the first Jewish bakery, founded in 1851 on Rue des Rosiers in Paris (4th arrondissement). 1938.

Documents

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

Documents

“Le Chant des Partisans,” which became the anthem of the Resistance, was written in 1943 in London by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon, set to music composed by Anna Marly in 1941.

Posters

“One struggle for one homeland”: a “Free France” propaganda poster, printed in Great Britain.

Posters

“Reserved for Germans” sign to be posted in first-class subway cars starting Oct. 27. 1940.

Notes

“Solidarity”

Newspapers

“The Battle of Stalingrad Is Over”: The February 4, 1943, edition of Le Journal reports the surrender of von Paulus’s Sixth Army at Stalingrad on February 3.

Photos

“The Jewish quarter of Warsaw no longer exists!”: a 75-page report by J. Stroop, commander of the German forces, on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, addressed to Himmler in May 1943.

Videos

“The young Jewish communists left Drancy singing ‘La Marseillaise,'” recalls Roger Trugnan (Trugman).

Newspapers

“A liberated France will destroy all traces of racial hatred,” reads the headline of Fraternité, the official publication of the Mouvement National contre le Racisme, dated November 15, 1943.

Documents

“Anti-Semitism Is Incompatible with Christianity,” Cahiers du Témoignage Chrétien, page 2 (April–May 1942).

Leaflets/Flyers

“Down with Anti-Semitism,” a PCF leaflet that pays tribute to all those who fell in the fight against Nazism and calls for continuing the struggle against fascism.

Leaflets/Flyers

“Down with the Child Killers”: A leaflet by the Lyon branch of the UJRE denouncing the UGIF’s collaboration in the deportation of Jewish children.

Leaflets/Flyers

“For a Day of Struggle on July 14”: a leaflet calling for a demonstration on July 14, 1943, signed by the main Resistance organizations.

Newspapers

“From the Historic Victory at Stalingrad to the Final Victory”: Notre Parole No. 2, February 1943, celebrates the Red Army’s victory.

Newspapers

“Just like under Hitler”: The underground edition of L’Humanité dated November 25, 1939, denounced the intensification of repression by the Daladier government.

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“Appeal of July 10, 1940”: a text by the PCF, titled “Peuple de France,” distributed beginning in late July 1940.

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

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

“Concentration” record for Abram Kreps, a Polish Jew, following the issuance of the “green ticket.”

“Free France” – Overseas Resistance

“Germany Victorious on All Fronts.” Nazi propaganda on the Palais-Bourbon, posted in 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.

“La Maison Haarscher,” the first Jewish bakery, founded in 1851 on Rue des Rosiers in Paris (4th arrondissement). 1938.

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

“Le Chant des Partisans,” which became the anthem of the Resistance, was written in 1943 in London by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon, set to music composed by Anna Marly in 1941.

“One struggle for one homeland”: a “Free France” propaganda poster, printed in Great Britain.

“Reserved for Germans” sign to be posted in first-class subway cars starting Oct. 27. 1940.

“Solidarity”

“The Battle of Stalingrad Is Over”: The February 4, 1943, edition of Le Journal reports the surrender of von Paulus’s Sixth Army at Stalingrad on February 3.

“The Jewish quarter of Warsaw no longer exists!”: a 75-page report by J. Stroop, commander of the German forces, on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, addressed to Himmler in May 1943.

“The young Jewish communists left Drancy singing ‘La Marseillaise,'” recalls Roger Trugnan (Trugman).

“A liberated France will destroy all traces of racial hatred,” reads the headline of Fraternité, the official publication of the Mouvement National contre le Racisme, dated November 15, 1943.

“Anti-Semitism Is Incompatible with Christianity,” Cahiers du Témoignage Chrétien, page 2 (April–May 1942).

“Down with Anti-Semitism,” a PCF leaflet that pays tribute to all those who fell in the fight against Nazism and calls for continuing the struggle against fascism.

“Down with the Child Killers”: A leaflet by the Lyon branch of the UJRE denouncing the UGIF’s collaboration in the deportation of Jewish children.

“For a Day of Struggle on July 14”: a leaflet calling for a demonstration on July 14, 1943, signed by the main Resistance organizations.

“From the Historic Victory at Stalingrad to the Final Victory”: Notre Parole No. 2, February 1943, celebrates the Red Army’s victory.

“Just like under Hitler”: The underground edition of L’Humanité dated November 25, 1939, denounced the intensification of repression by the Daladier government.

“The Nation’s Tribute to the Righteous of France,” a plaque affixed in the crypt of the Panthéon on January 18, 2007.