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Our database of Resistance fighters from the M.O.I.
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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
Documents
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.
Biographies
Minc Joseph
Biographies
List – Jeanne Pakin
Notes
Commission Centrale de l’Enfance (CCE)
Notes
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JOINT)
Documents
Documents from January 1945 attesting to the disappearance of Jews in two municipalities in the Loiret department.
Photos
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).
Notes
The Liberation of France
Newspapers
The September 18, 1944, issue of
L’Humanité
reports on the Soviet Army’s discovery of the death camps in Poland.
Documents
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.
Documents
Drawing by the communist engraver Pierre Provost, an active participant in the Buchenwald camp uprising (April 11, 1945).
Videos
January 18, 1945, evacuation of the Auschwitz camp: memories of Paulette Sarcey (Slifke).
Photos
On November 7, 1944, the Provisional Consultative Assembly held its first meeting at the Palais du Luxembourg.
Photos
A view of the “death march” from the Dachau camp in April 1945. German civilians secretly photographed several “death marches.”
Videos
Germaine Bach-Israël: The Horrific Conditions of the “Death March.”
Notes
Death Marches
Documents
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.
Photos
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.
Photos
Buchenwald: American soldiers standing in front of a mass grave of burned bodies (April 12, 1945).
Photos
The interior of a train car in Dachau on April 29, 1945, discovered on the day the camp was liberated by the Americans.
Photos
Starving prisoners at the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria (May 7, 1945), the day after the camp was liberated.
Photos
The arrival of the deportees at the Lutetia Hotel in Paris (May 1945).
Photos
Soviet soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin on May 2, 1945.
Documents
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.
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