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

The underground newspaper *L’Université libre* (June 11, 1942) denounced anti-Semitism and called on teachers to join the National Liberation Front.

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L’Université libre newspaper, No. 59, June 11, 1942 © BNF, Gallica

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8.3 The “Solidarity” Appeal—The Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup

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1942

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Documents from the same period

*Pitiwye Zaytung*, a Yiddish newspaper published by the internees at the Pithiviers camp, June 1942.

A “top secret” ministerial telegram forwarded for execution by the prefect of the Dordogne, stating that the roundup of Jews was to take place on August 26, 1942, “preferably at daybreak.”

A leaflet from “Solidarity” (the Jewish section of the M.O.I.) in Yiddish announcing the upcoming roundups and urging Jews to go into hiding and join the Resistance (late June 1942).

A roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942 carried out by French police officers.

A scene from daily life after June 7, 1942, when Jews were required to wear the yellow star.

Activists from the Jewish section are working to warn the Jewish population of an impending roundup and the need to go into hiding. Testimony by Robert Endewelt.