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Salle 11 - Création de l’UJRE

1943

11. Establishment of the UJRE


Mendel (Marcel) Langer, commander of the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade (Toulouse), was sentenced to death for transporting explosives, following the closing argument by Attorney General Lespinasse (March 1943).

Identity card of Marcel Langer, commander of the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade (Toulouse).

Marcel Langer

German photograph of a grenade attack on an occupation army convoy at Place du Capitole in Toulouse, taken in February 1943 by members of the FTP-M.O.I. from the 35th Brigade.

Certificate of membership in the FFI, issued to Raymond Lévy of the 35th Marcel Langer Brigade, dated 1952.

Homemade bombs made by members of the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade in Toulouse.

Members of the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade from Toulouse.

The August 15, 1943, issue of *La Voix de la Femme Juive* carries the headline “We Will Avenge Mendel Langer.”

*La Dépêche du Midi* (Oct. 11, 1943) reported that the Resistance had executed Prosecutor Lespinasse, who had sought the death penalty for Marcel Langer.

Conviction of Raymond and Charles Lévy, members of the 35th Brigade of Toulouse, for “communist terrorist activities” (Oct. 6, 1943)

FTP-M.O.I. Resistance fighters from the Marat Company (Marseille), armed with Sten submachine guns, sabotaging a railroad track.

Report by Police Commissioner Gillard (70 pages), listing the propaganda materials and weapons found in the homes of resistance fighters from the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade, as well as their activities in 1943.

Maurice Korzec

Report on Armed Operations by the 3rd FTP-M.O.I. Detachment in the Paris Region, June 1943.

Excerpt from a 1943 activity report by the Fourth FTP-M.O.I. Detachment: a train carrying German soldiers on leave was derailed by an explosion on the night of July 10–11.

*La Marseillaise* No. 1 (Dec. 1, 1943), the underground newspaper of the National Front for Provence, celebrates the liberation of Corsica (September–October 1943).

On November 11, 1943, the National Front of Saône-et-Loire announced the imminent fall of Hitlerism.

Special Sections

Call by the National Movement Against Racist Barbarism (MNCR) for action to save Jews from deportation.

A radio transmitter used by the Resistance.

Underground printing presses

Issue No. 2 of *Jeune Combat*, dated July 5, 1943, calls for making July 16, 1942, a day of mobilization against Nazism, in commemoration of the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup.

A Gestetner machine used by members of the Resistance to print leaflets, small posters, flyers, or newspapers.

Félice Weinstein (née Matuszewicz) recounts her role in running an underground printing press in Lyon.