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Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

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Rescue of Jewish Children


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Salle 8 - Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.
Jan–Jul 42

8. The Vel’d’Hiv round-up | The FTP-M.O.I.

French Freethinkers and Partisans (FTPF or FTP)

A Vichy propaganda poster designed to encourage French workers to voluntarily leave for Germany in exchange for the return of prisoners of war.

“Germany Victorious on All Fronts.” Nazi propaganda on the Palais-Bourbon, posted in 1941.

Resistance fighters from the “Youth Battalions,” arrested by French police officers from the Special Brigades, sentenced by a German court sitting at the Palais-Bourbon (March 4–6, 1942), and executed by firing squad on March 9.

OS Groups

The collaborationist newspaper *Le Matin*, in its March 5, 1942, edition, reported on the “trial” at the Palais-Bourbon of the young Communist Resistance fighters from the “Bataillons de la Jeunesse.”

Henri Krasucki

First issue (April 1942) of the underground newspaper *J’accuse*, denouncing anti-Semitism and Nazi crimes in Drancy and Compiègne (Fontstalag 122).

German propaganda image of the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie (April 7–14, 1942): the Nazi military judges and, in the foreground, the defendants with their hands cuffed.

Nine members of the Organisation Spéciale (OS) were sentenced to death during the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie; the tenth, Conrado Miret-Must, died under torture before the trial.

German propaganda image of the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie: the defendants being transported under the guard of German soldiers on April 8, 1942.

Trials of Young Resistance Fighters by German Military Courts

German propaganda image depicting the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie (April 7–14, 1942). The Nazi judges sentenced 27 communists to death: 16 from the “Youth Battalions” and 9 from the “Organisation Spéciale” (OS).

Official gazette of the German military authorities enacting the “Eighth Ordinance” of May 29, regarding the mandatory wearing of the Jewish star beginning Sunday, June 7, 1942.

Extermination camps – killing centers

German propaganda image depicting the “trial” at the Maison de la Chimie (April 7–14, 1942). Simone Schloss, a member of the OS, was sentenced to life imprisonment and was guillotined on July 17, 1942, in Cologne.

The four FTP-M.O.I. “detachments” responsible for armed operations.

FTP-M.O.I. Groups

Boris Holban

As mandated by the 8th German Ordinance of May 29, the wearing of the Jewish star—known as the “yellow star”—became mandatory as of Sunday, June 7, 1942.

On June 1, 1942, the collaborationist newspaper *Le Matin* announced that Jews would be required to wear the yellow star starting on June 7.

Star of David

Letter from the Prefect of the Seine to the Commissioner General for Jewish Affairs, dated June 10, 1942, regarding the segregation of Jews in the Paris Metro, at the request of the German authorities.

List of establishments and public places off-limits to Jews pursuant to the German ordinance of July 8, 1942.