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1.
Before 1934
The Jewish section of the M.O.I.
2.
1934 - 1939
Against Fascism | Outbreak of War
3.
Jan 1940 - Sept 1940
The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”
4.
Sept 1940 - June 1941
State Antisemitism | Responses
5.
June - August 1941
Armed resistance
6.
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
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 and Liberation
April–September 1944
14. Insurrection and Liberation
Notes
Ghost Train
Videos
Arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 30, 1944. An account by Germaine Bach-Israël.
Documents
Testimony of Raymond Lévy, a survivor of the “ghost train,” journey: Toulouse, July 3 – Dachau, August 28, 1944.—Excerpt
Documents
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
Documents
Diagram showing the route of the “ghost train” (July 3 to August 28, 1944).
Notes
Dachau Concentration Camp
Documents
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).
Documents
Activity Report of the 4th FTP-M.O.I. Detachment in the Paris Region for the period from August 2 to 6, 1944.
Leaflets/Flyers
“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.
Biographies
Henri Rol-Tanguy
Posters
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.
Leaflets/Flyers
Flyer: The UJRE Calls on Parisian Jews to Rise Up (August 19, 1944).
Photos
A scene from the liberation of Toulouse: a barricade on Rue du Faubourg-Bonnefoy. (August 20, 1944).
Photos
Resistance fighters in front of the prefecture during the Liberation of Grenoble in August 1944.
Photos
Barricade on Place de Châteaudun (Paris, 9th arrondissement), in front of the PCF headquarters in August 1944.
Photos
Liberation of Paris: a barricade at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Boulevard Saint-Michel, August 23, 1944; photo by Robert Doisneau.
Photos
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.
Photos
A scene from the Liberation of Paris: De Gaulle’s arrival at City Hall (August 26, 1944).
Biographies
General Leclerc
Photos
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.
Photos
Place de l’Opéra, Paris: German officers from the Kommandantur der Gross-Paris, taken prisoner (August 25, 1944).
Newspapers
Front National
newspaper, August 26, 1944.
Notes
Regional Conflicts and Uprisings
Photos
De Gaulle and Bidault (President of the CNR) walk down the Champs-Élysées on August 26. 1944
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