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The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

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5.
June - August 1941

Armed resistance

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Execution of hostages

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Persecutions | The Resistance

8.
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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Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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1943

Creation of the UJRE

12.
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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Oct 1944 - Nov 1945

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

The interior of a barracks at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Convoy routes based on the convoy schedules established on November 1. 1943.

Jews being loaded onto cattle cars bound for a death camp in Westerbork (Netherlands).

The main routes of deportation to the extermination camps (1942–1944).

Special Brigades

In May 1944, Hungarian Jews who had been deported arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In just eight weeks, nearly 424,000 of them were massacred.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: On the “ramp,” the SS selected the deportees upon their arrival at the camp.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: After the selection, Hungarian Jewish women and children were led to the gas chambers (May 27, 1944).

One of the crematorium buildings at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1943).

Containers of various sizes, Zyklon tablets, and Zyklon discs used in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Crematorium at the Majdanek extermination camp (Poland).

Electrified barbed-wire fences surrounding the Auschwitz camp.

Nazi system for marking deportees: yellow star (Jews), red triangle (political prisoners), green (common criminals), blue (emigrants and stateless persons), black (anti-social elements, prostitutes, lesbians), brown (Gypsies), purple (Jehovah’s Witnesses), pink (homosexuals).

Deported to perform forced labor in one of the Auschwitz kommandos (1942 or 1943).

Deportees tasked with sorting through the belongings of those exterminated at Auschwitz

*Notre Voix* (excerpts) from June 1, 1943—the day after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising—called on the Jews of France to take up arms against the Nazis as part of the FTP.

Underground press

The End of the Jewish Presence in Poland

Issue No. 14 of *J’Accuse*, from June 1943, praising “the heroic armed defense of 35,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.”

A note dated Dec. 10, 1942, from the Polish government describing the reality of the “massacres of Jews in occupied Poland,” forwarded to the Allied governments.

Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto captured by the Germans (May 1943). Caption in German: “These bandits defended themselves with weapons.”

Internal circular from the Movement for Defense and Solidarity Against Anti-Jewish Persecution and Deportations, analyzing antisemitism as a means of “preventing the unity of the Peuple de France” (1943).

American singer Paul Robeson sings “Zot Nit Keynmol” in Yiddish (a song from the Vilna Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto insurgents, which became the anthem of all ghettos).

United Resistance Movements (MUR)