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Before 1934

The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

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Against Fascism | Outbreak of War

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Jan 1940 - Sept 1940

The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”

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Sept 1940 - June 1941

State Antisemitism | Responses

5.
June - August 1941

Armed resistance

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August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

7.
Oct - Dec 1941

Persecutions | The Resistance

8.
Jan–Jul 1942

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

9.
July 1942 - Feb 1943

Rescue of Jewish Children


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August 1942 - May 1943

Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

11.
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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Oct 1944 - Nov 1945

End of the War | Reconstruction

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HALL 14 - Insurrection and Liberation
April–September 1944

14. Insurrection and Liberation

Ghost Train

Arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 30, 1944. An account by Germaine Bach-Israël.

Testimony of Raymond Lévy, a survivor of the “ghost train,” journey: Toulouse, July 3 – Dachau, August 28, 1944.—Excerpt

Testimony of Raymond Lévy, a survivor of the “ghost train.” The 750 deportees endured a 54-day journey (Toulouse, July 3–Dachau, August 28, 1944). Excerpt

Diagram showing the route of the “ghost train” (July 3 to August 28, 1944).

Dachau Concentration Camp

The leadership of the M.O.I. in the Paris region called on “immigrant communist comrades” to wage a “relentless struggle” against the enemy (summer 1944).

Activity Report of the 4th FTP-M.O.I. Detachment in the Paris Region for the period from August 2 to 6, 1944.

“Down with the Child Killers”: A leaflet by the Lyon branch of the UJRE denouncing the UGIF’s collaboration in the deportation of Jewish children.

Henri Rol-Tanguy

FFI-FTPF poster announcing the general mobilization order issued by the GPRF (August 1944). Resistance fighters in the interior are now considered combatants of the French army.

Flyer: The UJRE Calls on Parisian Jews to Rise Up (August 19, 1944).

A scene from the liberation of Toulouse: a barricade on Rue du Faubourg-Bonnefoy. (August 20, 1944).

Resistance fighters in front of the prefecture during the Liberation of Grenoble in August 1944.

Barricade on Place de Châteaudun (Paris, 9th arrondissement), in front of the PCF headquarters in August 1944.

Liberation of Paris: a barricade at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Boulevard Saint-Michel, August 23, 1944; photo by Robert Doisneau.

Henri Rol-Tanguy, with the FFI command staff of the Paris Liberation standing behind him, in the Catacombs beneath Place Denfert-Rochereau (14th arrondissement), August 1944.

A scene from the Liberation of Paris: De Gaulle’s arrival at City Hall (August 26, 1944).

General Leclerc

A few hours before the surrender, members of the Resistance (including Robert Endewelt, wearing an FFI armband) on the Leclerc tank “Buttes-Chaumont” at Place de la République in Paris.

Place de l’Opéra, Paris: German officers from the Kommandantur der Gross-Paris, taken prisoner (August 25, 1944).

Front National newspaper, August 26, 1944.

Regional Conflicts and Uprisings

De Gaulle and Bidault (President of the CNR) walk down the Champs-Élysées on August 26. 1944