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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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Salle 3 - The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”
Jan–Sept 40

3. The Occupation | Creation of « Solidarity »

Union of Jewish Women (UFJ)

Union of Jewish Communist Youth (UJC or JCJ)

During the “Phoney War,” British and French soldiers on the edge of an airfield, November 28, 1939.

Charles de Gaulle

“Solidarity”

Jacques Kaminski

Kenig G.

Albert Youdine

The Phoney War

September 1939: A crowd of foreign volunteers in front of the War Ministry.

The Foreign Volunteer Marching Regiments (RMVE) and Other Units

Registration of foreign volunteers on Rue de Lancry in Paris.

Jews who volunteered for the 22nd Foreign Volunteer Marching Regiment in 1939

Paris, Avenue des Champs-Élysées: Foreigners coming to enlist in the French army, 1939.

Hana C., a Russian Jew and volunteer soldier, was arrested on June 30, 1941, and shot on December 15, 1941, at Mont-Valérien (Suresnes) as a Soviet citizen and hostage.

Israel G., a Polish Jew and communist sympathizer, served as a volunteer and was executed by firing squad on December 15, 1941, at Mont-Valérien (Suresnes).

Police seals on the documents found at Mathilde Péri’s home on March 27, 1940. Her husband, Gabriel Péri, was executed by the Nazis on December 15, 1941, for being a communist.

Pennant of the 22nd RMVE. The 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Regiments were composed primarily of Jews from Eastern Europe and Spanish Republicans.

The May 11, 1940, edition of *Paris-Soir* reported on the German army’s invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

German troops in Maastricht (Netherlands), May 10, 1940.

German tanks attacking in the Ardennes, France, 1940.

A column of Panzer IVs in a French village in May 1940.

The May 16, 1940, issue of *L’Humanité clandestine* denounced the imperialist war.

Defeat of 1940