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Armed resistance

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August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

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Oct - Dec 1941

Persecutions | The Resistance

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Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

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July 1942 - Feb 1943

Rescue of Jewish Children


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Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Creation of the UJRE

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Jan 1943 - Mar 1944

Repression | The Major Surveillance Operations

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Apr 1943 - March 1944

Unification of the Resistance

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Insurrection and Liberation

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End of the War | Reconstruction

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Salle 7 - Persecutions | The Resistance
Oct–Dec 41

7. Persecution | The Resistance

Publication in the Official Journal of October 30, 1941, of the law of October 28 prohibiting the listening to foreign radio stations, particularly the BBC.

Jewish Affairs Police (PQJ)

Xavier Vallat

Freezing of “Jews” postal accounts on October 29, 1941, by the Dordogne Postal Authority.

Anti-Semitic article in *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper.

Poster for the anti-Semitic exhibition “The Jew and France” at the Palais Berlitz in Paris, September 5, 1941, to January 15, 1942, organized by the Institute for the Study of Jewish Issues.

The Thomson-Houston Company certifies that its Jewish employee will not have contact with the public (November 1, 1941).

On November 17, 1941, Labarthe, the prefect of the Dordogne, requested from the police commissioner of Périgueux a list of “undesirable” French or foreign Jews.

La Croix has published a list of senators and representatives who were removed from office because they are Jews.

A store displaying the mandatory sign “Jewish business” (no location or date).

Jewish store owners are required to display a small yellow sign on their storefronts bearing the words “Jüdisches Geschäft – Jewish Business,” in accordance with the German ordinance of October 18, 1940.

Attack on October 3, 1941, against the synagogue on Rue Sainte-Isaure (18th arrondissement, Paris), carried out by a fascist movement (MSR).

An anti-Gaullist and anti-Semitic poster published in November 1941 by the Institute for the Study of Jewish Issues. At the time, the IEQJ was funded by the German embassy.

Anti-Semitic cartoon (1941).

Cover of the Communist Party brochure on anti-Semitism attributed to Georges Politzer but written by Louis Gronowski and widely distributed clandestinely by the PCF in November. 1941.

A pamphlet denouncing anti-Semitism, written by Louis Gronowski (national director of the M.O.I.) and published by the Communist Party in November. 1941.

On September 26, 1942, the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs organized the “Aryanization” of “Jewish businesses” in the Puy-de-Dôme department.

Mina L.’s alien registration card. In the unoccupied zone, the Vichy government decided to stamp the cards of people of the “Jewish race” with the word “JUIF” in red.

Publication in the Official Journal of Dec. 2, 1941, of the law of Nov. 29 establishing the General Union of French Jews (UGIF).

Unzer Wort, Nov. 1, 1941, headline: “The heroic Soviet Resistance thwarts Nazi plans. The colossal front of the Soviet Union, England, and America, and of all peoples […] will crush the Hitlerite beast.”

Gendarmerie report on the attempted escape of Eljasz Szklarek from the Beaune-la-Rolande camp on November 3, 1941.

Map excerpted from a report on A. Majerholc’s attempted escape from the Pithiviers camp in 1941. He would succeed in a second attempt and serve in the FTP from June to October 1944.

Draft of the speech by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered the day after the Japanese attack on Dec. 7. 1941.

Internment camps in France prior to deportation to the East.