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Sept 1940 - June 1941

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June - August 1941

Armed resistance

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August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

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Oct - Dec 1941

Persecutions | The Resistance

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Jan–Jul 1942

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

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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

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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End of the War | Reconstruction

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GALLERY 12 - Repression | Major surveillance operations
Jan. 43 – Mar. 44

12. Repression | Major surveillance operations

Poster of the French Militia, established on January 30, 1943, and led by Joseph Darnand, a Waffen-SS officer, to combat the Resistance, hunt down Jews, and track down those evading the STO.

French Militia

The February 17, 1943, issue of *Paris-Soir* announced the second law on the SOT (February 16), which, one week later, became the STO (Compulsory Labor Service).

Compulsory Labor Service (STO)

Summoning dated January 19, 1943, for departure to Germany as part of the “first STO.”

Poster from the Dordogne Prefecture announcing the requirement for men aged 20 to 22 to register for compulsory labor service (STO). Feb. 24 1943.

Nazi propaganda poster from the ORAFF (Office for the Allocation of Poster Space), established by the German authorities in 1941.

The “Information Office” for French workers on leave working in Germany (February 1943).

Flyer (small leaflet) opposing the implementation of the STO, 1943.

Handcrafted butterfly encouraging people to fight against the German invaders.

Report on an armed operation carried out by a FTP-M.O.I. group against a German patrol on June 23, 1943, near Sannois (Val-d’Oise).

Reconstruction of the first surveillance operation targeting Parisian members of the Jewish Communist Youth Organization by officers of the Special Brigades (January through March 1943), based on police reports.

Paulette Sarcey (Slifke) recounts how the Special Brigades’ surveillance led to the arrest of members of her group of young Jewish Resistance fighters. Fifty-seven of them were deported.

Paulette Sarcey

Police report on the arrest of Paulette Szlifke (Sliwka-Sarcey) (March 23, 1943).

Report on the armed operation carried out by the 4th FTP-M.O.I. detachment against a German train on the night of August 17–18, 1943 (Seine-et-Marne).

An act of sabotage on a railroad (no location or date given).

Paulette Sarcey (Slifke-Sliwka) recalls the interrogation she underwent at the Paris Police Headquarters in March 1943.

Police report (Special Brigades) on the surveillance of Rebecca Majner, “Gamine,” for February–March 1943. “Gamine” is shown on the left side of the diagram of the first surveillance operation.

Record of Henri Krasucki, who arrived in Drancy on June 21, 1943, and was deported to Auschwitz on the 23rd of that same month.

Record of Paulette Szlifke (Sliwka-Sarcey), who arrived in Drancy on May 18, 1943, and was deported to Auschwitz on June 23.

“The young Jewish communists left Drancy singing ‘La Marseillaise,'” recalls Roger Trugnan (Trugman).

Roger Trugnan

Reconstruction of the second surveillance operation targeting Parisian members of the UJRE and the second detachment of the FTP-M.O.I. by officers of the Special Brigades (March to June 1943), based on police reports.