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4.
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5.
June - August 1941
Armed resistance
6.
August - Oct 1941
Execution of hostages
7.
Oct - Dec 1941
Persecutions | The Resistance
8.
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Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.
9.
July 1942 - Feb 1943
Rescue of Jewish Children
10.
August 1942 - May 1943
Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
11.
1943
Creation of the UJRE
12.
Jan 1943 - Mar 1944
Repression | The Major Surveillance Operations
13.
Apr 1943 - March 1944
Unification of the Resistance
14.
Apr - Sep 1944
Insurrection and Liberation
15.
Oct 1944 - Nov 1945
End of the War | Reconstruction
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HALL 14 - Insurrection et Libération
April–September 1944
14. Insurrection and Liberation
Photos
Mail delivery at the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu, summer 1943.
Photos
Children from the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu (summer 1943). On April 6, 1944, following a tip-off, Gestapo troops under the command of Klaus Barbie arrested the 44 children living there and 7 adults.
Documents
Telegram dated April 6, 1944, from Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon, regarding the arrest of the staff and children of the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu and their transfer to Drancy.
Photos
Executions at Mont-Valérien of 22 members of the “Manouchian group” on Feb. 21, 1944, and of Joseph Epstein, head of the FTPF in the Paris region, on Apr. 11. 1944. (Olga Bancic is beheaded in Germany)
Documents
Letter from Joseph Epstein to his son, written from Fresnes Prison on April 11, 1944, the day of his execution by the Germans at Mont-Valérien.
Photos
Executions at Mont-Valérien in February 1944 of members of the Manouchian group. Photo taken secretly by German non-commissioned officer C. Ruther.
Photos
Boulevard Barbès in Paris after the Anglo-American bombing on April 21, 1944 (641 dead).
Photos
The area around the Douai train station after the Anglo-American bombing on April 30, 1944.
Photos
The General Committee for the Defense of the Jews of France calls for solidarity with persecuted Jews and for a joint struggle against Hitlerism, May 1944. (Excerpt)
Photos
On June 3, 1944, in Algiers, the French Committee for National Liberation became the Provisional Government of the French Republic (Official Journal of June 8, 1944).
Notes
Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF)
Documents
Instructions to the FTPF’s “combat units” for armed struggle at the time of the Allied landings (spring 1944).
Postcards
Map showing the density of Home Army organizations.
Documents
List of armed operations carried out by UJRE combat units in the Lyon region from June to August 1944.
Notes
D-Day Landings in Normandy
Photos
The Allied landing in Normandy: Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944.
Photos
British commandos landing on the beach at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (Juno), June 6, 1944.
Leaflets/Flyers
A leaflet from the UJJ calling on Jewish youth, in the aftermath of the Normandy landings, to join the Patriotic Militias.
Newspapers
*Droit et Liberté*
No. 9, a publication of the UJRE, predicts the impending defeat of the Third Reich (Nazi Empire). July 1944.
Notes
The Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre
Photos
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane: On June 10, 1944, soldiers from the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” destroyed the village and massacred its inhabitants (643 people).
Photos
Soldiers from the SS Das Reich Division arriving in a village.
Photos
In Montluçon, on August 14, 1944, 42 hostages were shot at the Grises quarry.
Photos
The Allied fleet during Operation Dragoon (the landing on the Mediterranean coast near Saint-Tropez on August 15, 1944).
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