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The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

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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

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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

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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

The Jewish Patriotic Militias of Paris announce the formation of an FTP company named “Rajman” (Rayman). August 29, 1944.

Rayman Company

FTP-M.O.I. women march in Marseille on August 29, 1944

A leaflet from the UJRE addressed to the Jewish community of Limoges, calling for continued action. The city was liberated on August 21, 1944, by FTPF resistance fighters led by Colonel Georges Guingouin.

PCF (M.O.I.) Guidelines for the Formation of Jewish Combat Units (August 14, 1944).

An FTP-M.O.I. unit from the Carmagnole Battalion in front of the Villeurbanne hospital, after the city’s liberation in September 1944.

The Villeurbanne Popular Uprising

Arrest of members of the Vichy militia in Lyon on September 3, 1944.

North African riflemen marching in a parade during the Liberation of Lyon on September 3, 1944.

Post-uprising tally of Jewish Communist Resistance fighters: killed in action, shot, deported. Sept. 1944

A call from the Jewish section of the M.O.I. to join the “Rayman Company” to continue the fight.

A letter dated Sept. 30, 1944, mentioning the upcoming departure for the front of the Rayman Company, into which Victor Zigelman has been assigned.

Decree No. 11 of September 3, 1944 (the day of Lyon’s Liberation) issued by the Regional Commissioner of the Republic for the Lyon region, repealing all measures of racial discrimination.