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1.
Before 1934

The Jewish Section of the M.O.I.

2.
1934 - 1939

Against Fascism | Beginning of the 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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GALLERY 15 - Fin de la guerre | Reconstruction
oct 44 - nov 45

15. End of the war | Reconstruction

On November 13, 1944, a declaration was filed with the Prefecture of Police regarding the official establishment of the UJRE (Official Journal of December 12, 1944). Excerpts from the UJRE’s bylaws.

Minc Joseph

List – Jeanne Pakin

Commission Centrale de l’Enfance (CCE)

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JOINT)

Documents from January 1945 attesting to the disappearance of Jews in two municipalities in the Loiret department.

Photo taken by Pierre Provost from the SS during the liberation of the Buchenwald camp, made possible by the uprising of the prisoners and the arrival of the Americans (April 11, 1945).

The Liberation of France

The September 18, 1944, issue of L’Humanité reports on the Soviet Army’s discovery of the death camps in Poland.

Letter from the UJJ in Marseille (October 2, 1944) requesting a list of Jews who were arrested in southern France and released upon the liberation of the Drancy camp.

Drawing by the communist engraver Pierre Provost, an active participant in the Buchenwald camp uprising (April 11, 1945).

January 18, 1945, evacuation of the Auschwitz camp: memories of Paulette Sarcey (Slifke).

On November 7, 1944, the Provisional Consultative Assembly held its first meeting at the Palais du Luxembourg.

A view of the “death march” from the Dachau camp in April 1945. German civilians secretly photographed several “death marches.”

Germaine Bach-Israël: The Horrific Conditions of the “Death March.”

Death Marches

Letter from the UJJ dated October 3, 1944, to the Rector of Paris requesting measures to assist Jewish students who were victims of racial persecution and demanding the removal of anti-Semitic faculty members.

Upon entering the Auschwitz camp (January 27, 1945), the Soviets discovered nearly 200 children under the age of 15. Here, children were used for “scientific experiments” by Mengele, the camp’s Nazi doctor.

Buchenwald: American soldiers standing in front of a mass grave of burned bodies (April 12, 1945).

The interior of a train car in Dachau on April 29, 1945, discovered on the day the camp was liberated by the Americans.

Starving prisoners at the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria (May 7, 1945), the day after the camp was liberated.

The arrival of the deportees at the Lutetia Hotel in Paris (May 1945).

Soviet soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin on May 2, 1945.

The two pages of the German surrender document, signed in Reims on May 7, 1945, by General Jodl on behalf of the German army, and countersigned by the Allied representatives.