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Armed resistance

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Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

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Unification of the Resistance

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HALL 5 - Armed resistance
June–August 41

5. Armed resistance

Radio Paris

TSF radio. “This is London”: the four gong strikes, “as muffled as a heartbeat,” form the famous jingle for the BBC program “Les Français parlent aux Français.”

A flyer listing the broadcast times for Radio Moscow’s French-language programs.

The August 21, 1941, issue of *L’Humanité clandestine* urges readers to tune in to Radio Moscow and Radio France.

Legion of Volunteers Against Bolshevism (LVF)

On the night of July 16–17, 1941, following an act of sabotage carried out by Communist activists, a freight train derailed in the municipality of Épinay-sur-Seine.

On July 18, 1941, the Cannes City Hall organized a census of Jews.

Flyer announcing the formation of the National Front for the Liberation and Independence of France.

German poster announcing the arrest of 31 communist activists following a series of acts of sabotage, July 18, 1941.

Entrance to the Borgnis-Desbordes barracks in Versailles, a screening center for volunteers wishing to enlist in the LVF and wear the German uniform.

Excerpt from the newspaper L’Humanité, July 25, 1941, calling for sabotage as a way to fulfill one’s patriotic duty.

Explosive device discovered at the Pont de la Source bridge in Chaville (probably in 1941).

A spectacular act by young Jewish communists, as recounted by Paulette Sarcey (Slifke).

The newspaper *Unzer Wort*, dated August 8, 1941, calling for “unity among the Jewish masses and brotherhood with the French people within the National Front for the Independence of France.”

In September–October 1941, the Université libre called on intellectuals and academics to join the National Front.

The first issue of *La France libre*, an underground Resistance newspaper (August 1941).

Instructions from the Prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes calling for increased crackdowns on communist activities (August 6, 1941).

La Relève, the underground publication of communist high school and college students, calls for resistance against the invader and honors the memory of the fighters executed by the Nazis (August 19, 1941)

German poster announcing the execution of Szmul (Samuel) Tyszelman and Henry Gautherot on August 19, 1941.

Samuel (Szmul) Tyszelman’s last letter to his parents before his execution (August 19, 1941).

Flyer titled “We Want Coal” published by the Women’s People’s Committee (a communist organization), 1941.

Transcription of Samuel (Szmul) Tyszelman’s last letter.

The collaborationist newspaper *Le Matin*, in its June 23, 1941, edition, described the invasion of the USSR as “a war against Bolshevism.”

The underground Yiddish newspaper *Unzer Wort* of June 25, 1941, and *Notre Parole* denounced Operation Barbarossa: “Long live the Soviet Union! The enemy will be crushed and annihilated.”