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Salle 4 - Antisémitisme d’État | Ripostes
Sept. 1940 – June 1941

On May 26, 1941, the underground newspaper *L’Humanité* called on the French people to unite in a National Front for the independence of France.

s4.pa3_.024_humanity_May 26, 1941

L’Humanité newspaper, May 26, 1941 © BNF, Gallica

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Documents from the same period

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

“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.

A PCF leaflet from May 1941 denouncing anti-Semitism following the “green ticket” roundup.

A Yiddish leaflet found by an inspector on the sidewalk in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, along with the police’s translation. April 9, 1941.

An internment system was in place as early as 1939. Beginning in 1941, in the occupied zone, internment camps (or transit camps) were used to hold foreign Jews arrested by the French police on German orders.

Arrived at the Pithiviers camp on May 15, 1941, as part of a convoy of foreign Jewish men coming from Paris following the “green ticket” roundup.