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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 »

Flyers – “Butterflies”

An underground printing press used by members of the Resistance in the hamlet of Malbouyssou in the Lot department.

A Communist leaflet from October 1941 satirizing the Vichy motto of the National Revolution, “Work-Family-Fatherland,” which had become the official ideology in 1940.

At the request of Louis Gronowski and Jacques Kaminski (national leaders of the M.O.I.), former editors of *Naïe Presse* and executives from the former Jewish Section of the M.O.I. founded “Solidarité.”

Police report dated Oct. 7, 1940, translating certain excerpts from *Unzer Wort*, dated Sept. 29, 1940, an underground Yiddish newspaper published by the Jewish section of the M.O.I.

A Torpedo-brand machine used to produce the printing plates for Yiddish leaflets and newspapers published by the Jewish section of the M.O.I.

Titles and print runs of clandestine communist publications distributed in Paris’s 14th arrondissement between October 1940 and January 1941.

Circulation figures for*L’Humanité clandestine* in four Parisian arrondissements from October 1940 to January 1941.

Vilner Marceau

Our Word

Reorganization and Priorities of the PCF in 1940

Paulette Sarcey (Slifke) recounts how she first became involved in the resistance against the occupying forces alongside young Jewish communists.

French prisoners of war in northern France, escorted by German soldiers.

Adam Rayski