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June - August 1941

Armed resistance

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August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

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Persecutions | The Resistance

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Jan–Jul 1942

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

9.
July 1942 - Feb 1943

Rescue of Jewish Children


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August 1942 - May 1943

Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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1943

Creation of the UJRE

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Jan 1943 - Mar 1944

Repression | The Major Surveillance Operations

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Apr 1943 - March 1944

Unification of the Resistance

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Apr - Sep 1944

Insurrection and Liberation

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End of the War | Reconstruction

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Salle 10 - Stalingrad | Soulèvement du ghetto de Varsovie
August 1942 – May 1943

10. Stalingrad | The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On November 11, 1942, the Wehrmacht (the Nazi army) occupied the “free” zone. The Occupation army was stationed in Toulouse, at Place du Capitole.

The Germans Enter the Southern Zone

A German coastal battery in the mountains of southern France in 1942.

The Wehrmacht is involved in the Occupation of the so-called “free zone” (Operation Anton), here in Port-Vendres.

Letter from the Paris Public Prosecutor to the Minister of Justice confirming the executions of hostages by German troops (Dec. 11, 1942).

Our December 1942 issue of *La Voix* calls for unity against the Vichy government and the Occupation forces.

Westerbork (Netherlands): Jews (children, women, and men) board a train bound for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

The December 20, 1942, issue of *Unzer Wort* warns: “Laval and the occupying forces are preparing to deport French Jews.”

Copy of a telegram (Feb. 23, 1943) from the regional prefect of Limoges to the prefect of Périgueux regarding the “roundup” of foreign Jews and the procedures for their selection.

Raids

The General Intelligence Directorate announces the execution by the Germans of three “terrorists” and details their actions in Paris (March 16, 1943).

FTP-M.O.I. Report (Southern Zone) on the Development of the Armed Struggle: Establishment of the Union of Jewish Youth (UJJ) as a mass organization and recruitment base (late 1943).

Soviet soldiers advancing along a trench amid the ruins of Stalingrad.

Battle of Stalingrad

Soviet soldiers advancing through the ruins of Stalingrad (on the right bank of the Volga).

“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.

German soldiers taken prisoner after the surrender (February 2, 1943) of von Paulus’s Sixth Army at Stalingrad.

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

Downtown Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, after the German surrender. The Volga River is visible in the background.

The February 5, 1943, issue of *L’Humanité* celebrates the Red Army’s victory at Stalingrad.

Robert Endewelt analyzes the German defeat at Stalingrad as the prelude to victory over Nazism.

Our newspaper *Notre Parole*, in its March 8, 1943, edition, after praising the Soviet military successes, warned Jews—both foreign and French—against roundups and deportation.

Map: Camps in France and deportation routes to concentration camps and extermination centers in Eastern Europe.

Postcards of the Bobigny train station, near Drancy, from where convoys departed for concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.