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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

Generaloberst Alfred Jodl signing, on behalf of the Wehrmacht High Command, the documents formalizing Nazi Germany’s surrender in Reims on May 7, 1945.

Battle of May 8, 1945, heralding Germany’s surrender.

Record of Paulette Szlifke (Sarcey), who was arrested by French police, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 23, 1943, liberated by the Americans on May 2, 1945, at Ravensbrück, and repatriated to France on May 23.

Spring 1945, at the Hôtel Lutetia, camp survivors consult a list of deportees whose families are searching for them.

Posters seeking missing deportees.

The Yiddish language

On February 27, 1945, the Naïe Presse organized an informational meeting on the topic of “Jewish unity in France and around the world.”

Letter dated February 26, 1945, from the UJRE to the OSE announcing the establishment of a clinic in Paris’s 18th arrondissement.

In the municipal elections of April 29, 1945, French women voted for the first time, in accordance with the ordinance of April 21, 1944, issued by General de Gaulle’s Provisional Government in Algiers.

Telegram dated May 21, 1945, announcing the return of deportee Jean Laveille to Mussidan in the Dordogne.

A parade of UJJ members on July 14, 1945. Among those present were Resistance fighters who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

The UJRE has announced a meeting at the Mutualité (5th arrondissement, Paris) on April 10, 1945, where Anna Stoklamer, a survivor, will provide information about the deportees from Auschwitz and Birkenau.

UJJ Membership Card, 1944–1945.

Charles Lederman announced that the First UJRE Congress would be held on April 14 and 15, 1945.

UJRE poster in Yiddish commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. “Zi hobn geqempft for undzere kavod un freiheit”: They fought for our dignity and freedom. (1945).

The Yiddish language: a language in its own right (originating in the year 1000)

Members of the UJRE and the Bund (Jewish socialist movement) of the Paris Committee for Unity declare that they are “working toward unity.” In Yiddish. (June 1, 1945).

The May 29, 1945, issue of L’Humanité outlines the main demands of the PCF.

The Estates-General of the French Renaissance, organized by the CNR (July 10–14, 1945).

Marshal Pétain’s trial began on July 23, 1945, before the High Court of Justice, which had been established on November 18, 1944. On August 15, *Les Nouvelles du matin* reported that he had been sentenced to death.

The arrest of a collaborator by civilians in Rennes.

As early as September 3, 1944, the Paris Police Prefect issued a warning regarding the arrest of “servants and accomplices of the enemy” by anyone other than law enforcement officers.

The October 10, 1945, issue of L’Humanité reports on Pierre Laval’s death sentence (October 9). He was to be executed by firing squad on the 15th.

Elections to the Constituent Assembly on October 21, 1945.

The October 23, 1945, issue of L’Humanité announced the PCF’s victory in the constituent elections, with 152 deputies.

The October 27 issue of L’Humanité celebrates the implementation of the National Council of the Resistance’s program, particularly the Social Security program (ordinance of October 19, 1945).