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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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HALL 5 - Armed resistance
June–August 41

5. Armed resistance

Handwritten report by Joseph Epstein to the Communist International (June 1941).

Soviet soldiers under German fire (September 1941).

Battle of Moscow

Starting in late October 1941, Moscow was transformed into a fortress: 250,000 women and teenagers dug 8,000 km of trenches and anti-tank ditches.

German soldiers struggling to advance toward Moscow and battling “General Winter” in December 1941).

Pearl Harbor

The sinking of the battleship West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship was recommissioned in 1944.

Explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw, which was in dry dock at the time, during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. 1941.

World War

Samuel Tyszelman

Radio Moscow

Operation Barbarossa