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Before 1934

The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

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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

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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 7 - Persecutions | The Resistance
Oct–Dec 41

7. Persecution | The Resistance

A child born in May 1940, interned at the Rivesaltes camp (Pyrénées-Orientales) in 1941.

Children at the nursery in the Rivesaltes camp (Pyrénées-Orientales). France, 1941–1942.

Copy of the letter from M.Z. to his wife, written before his execution at Mont-Valérien on December 15, 1941.

Record for the “family of a man executed” by M.Z., a Polish national, drafted in 1939, arrested in the 11th arrondissement, and interned at Drancy. Executed as a hostage on December 15, 1941, at Mont-Valérien.

Following the execution of 100 hostages by the German authorities, the underground edition of *L’Humanité* dated December 19, 1941, called for resistance against the invader.

Compiègne Internment Camp: The Jewish Convoys

Auschwitz, Concentration and Extermination Camp

Joseph Bursztyn

Nadler Mounié

General Union of French Jews (UGIF)

David Kutner

Ephraim Lipcer

Sixteen-year-old Jewish communists became fighters: an account by Paulette Sarcey (Slifke).

The battleship USS Arizona ablaze after being torpedoed by Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Warships destroyed in Pearl Harbor Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

On December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt declared before the United States Congress: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will forever be etched in history as a day of infamy.”

The December 9, 1941, edition of *La Croix* reports on the Japanese attacks in the Far East.

On December 11, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the declaration of war by the United States against Germany and Italy.

Letter from the mayor of the 16th arrondissement to the prefect of the Seine regarding a roundup carried out by the German authorities.

Letter from the mayor of the 10th arrondissement to the prefect of the Seine regarding a roundup carried out by the German authorities.

Nursery at the Gurs camp. 1941.

Jews behind the barbed wire at the Gurs camp. 1942.

Order of the Police Prefecture of the Seine Department on the “control of Jews” (December 10, 1941).

Jews at the Rivesaltes camp gathered in preparation for their deportation to Drancy and then Auschwitz. France.