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Creation of the UJRE

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Salle 11 - Creation of the UJRE
1943

11. Establishment of the UJRE


The Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE) was founded in the spring of 1943.

Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE)

Union of Jewish Youth (UJJ)

On January 22, 1943, *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper, published a map of the 14 departments off-limits to Jews.

The Jews rounded up in Marseille (January 24, 1943) were sent to the Compiègne camp and then deported to the Sobibor extermination camp (Poland).

Rue de la Bonneterie in the Vieux-Port neighborhood of Marseille during the roundup of Jews (January 22, 23, and 24, 1943).

Deportation of Jews, Arenc Station, Marseille, January 24, 1943.

Following the roundup, beginning on February 1, 1943, German engineering troops used explosives to demolish 1,200 buildings in the Vieux-Port district of Marseille.

Marseille Roundup

German soldiers and officers in Marseille during the roundups of January 22–24, 1943.

Map showing the extent of the destruction in the northern part of the Old Port in Marseille in early February 1943.

The February 15, 1943, issue of *Notre Voix* condemns the deportation of Jews from Marseille to the Compiègne camp and to “an unknown destination.”

Following the deportation of Jews from Marseille, a leaflet from the Movement for Defense and Solidarity Against Anti-Jewish Persecution and Deportations calling for Resistance (Feb. 13, 1943).

Call for the Unity of the Peuple de France for Liberation (February 13, 1943)

Map of the main concentration and extermination camps in occupied Europe.

National Front for the Struggle for the Liberation and Independence of France

Call by the National Front of Seine-Inférieure (Seine-Maritime) to fight the Occupation by any means necessary (March 1943).

Underground organizations that emerged from the Jewish section of the M.O.I. (September 1940–November 1944)

Jacques Kott, the future head of the UJJ in Lyon, began organizing recruitment in the southern zone as early as 1942.

Robert Endewelt

UJJ Manifesto Calling on Young Jews to Join the Struggle (April 1943). Excerpts

Summary of the distribution of leaflets and flyers by the UJJ in November 1943. Excerpt

“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.

FTP-M.O.I. Southern Zone: Marcel Langer Brigade, Carmagnole Detachment, etc…