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Execution of hostages

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Persecutions | The Resistance

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Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

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Rescue of Jewish Children


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Creation of the UJRE

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Unification of the Resistance

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Insurrection and Liberation

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HALL 14 - Insurrection et Libération

April–September 1944

14. Insurrection and Liberation

Mail delivery at the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu, summer 1943.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Executions at Mont-Valérien in February 1944 of members of the Manouchian group. Photo taken secretly by German non-commissioned officer C. Ruther.

Boulevard Barbès in Paris after the Anglo-American bombing on April 21, 1944 (641 dead).

The area around the Douai train station after the Anglo-American bombing on April 30, 1944.

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)

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).

Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF)

Instructions to the FTPF’s “combat units” for armed struggle at the time of the Allied landings (spring 1944).

Map showing the density of Home Army organizations.

List of armed operations carried out by UJRE combat units in the Lyon region from June to August 1944.

D-Day Landings in Normandy

The Allied landing in Normandy: Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944.

British commandos landing on the beach at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (Juno), June 6, 1944.

A leaflet from the UJJ calling on Jewish youth, in the aftermath of the Normandy landings, to join the Patriotic Militias.

*Droit et Liberté* No. 9, a publication of the UJRE, predicts the impending defeat of the Third Reich (Nazi Empire). July 1944.

The Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre

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).

Soldiers from the SS Das Reich Division arriving in a village.

In Montluçon, on August 14, 1944, 42 hostages were shot at the Grises quarry.

The Allied fleet during Operation Dragoon (the landing on the Mediterranean coast near Saint-Tropez on August 15, 1944).