{"id":16932,"date":"2024-06-17T10:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/ujre-and-ujj-combat-groups\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:30:10","slug":"ujre-and-ujj-combat-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/ujre-and-ujj-combat-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"UJRE and UJJ Combat Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Just as the French domestic Resistance was unifying under the leadership of General de Gaulle, the Jewish section of the M.O.I. redefined its policy and opened its doors to all Jews\u2014immigrants or French citizens, communists or not\u2014and on May 27, 1943, created the \u201cUnion of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid\u201d (UJRE). The UJRE and the Union of Jewish Youth (UJJ), founded at the same time, organized \u201ccombat groups\u201d in southern France. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Founded on May 27, 1943, the Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE) now brought together all the organizations that had emerged from the Jewish section of the M.O.I. At the same time, the youth wing of the UJRE (JCJ) adopted the name \u201cUnion of Jewish Youth\u201d (UJJ). After the national leadership of the Jewish section was transferred to Lyon in the southern zone, the UJRE and the UJJ organized \u201ccombat groups\u201d in the fall of 1943.<\/p>

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Unlike the fighters of the FTP-M.O.I. groups (formed in 1942)\u2014who operated entirely underground when not engaged in operations and were paid as \u201cfull-time members\u201d by the Resistance\u2014the members of the \u201ccombat groups\u201d continued to lead normal civilian lives, with families and jobs. Their highly risky actions ranged from putting up posters, distributing leaflets, writing slogans on walls, and making public speeches, to acts of sabotage and armed operations in which they served as reinforcements for the FTP-M.O.I. (which remained very active in the north and south). The most seasoned members may subsequently be transferred to the FTP-M.O.I.; the \u201ccombat groups\u201d thus served as a breeding ground for the armed Resistance proper. <\/p>

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They are organized into three detachments for adults and four for youth. For safety reasons, a \u201ctriangular\u201d structure is used: each group consists of three teams of three members each. Similarly, at the next higher level, each detachment consists of three groups. <\/p>

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Based on this diagram, we can estimate the size of the UJRE\u2019s \u201ccombat groups\u201d at about eighty people (\u201cDenis,\u201d the person in charge of membership, mentions 70 to 80 people). Similarly, the UJJ groups comprise about one hundred young people in total. <\/p>

In 1944, these \u201cgroups\u201d took part in the fighting during the Liberation, particularly in the Villeurbanne uprising.<\/p>

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The UJRE led a Resistance movement that was both specifically Jewish and fully integrated into the broader Resistance. As a member of the National Front for the Liberation and Independence of France (one of the organizations of the CNR), the UJRE, through its \u201ccombat groups,\u201d actively contributed, alongside the UJJ, to the fight against Nazism and the liberation of France. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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References:<\/strong><\/p>

\u2014 Collin, Claude, 1998, *Jeune Combat: The Young Jews of the M.O.I. in the<\/em> Resistance<\/em>*. Presses universitaires de Grenoble, \u201cR\u00e9sistances\u201d (PUG) <\/p>

\u2014 St\u00e9phane Courtois, Denis Peschanski, Adam Rayski, 1989, *Le Sang de<\/em> l\u2019\u00e9tranger: Les immigr\u00e9s de la M.O.I. dans la R\u00e9sistance*.<\/em> Fayard <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as the French domestic Resistance was unifying under the leadership of General de Gaulle, the Jewish section of the M.O.I. redefined its policy and opened its doors to all Jews\u2014immigrants or French citizens, communists or not\u2014and on May 27, 1943, created the \u201cUnion of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid\u201d (UJRE). The UJRE and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"salle":[194],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","salle-11-1-the-communist-jewish-resistance-movement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}