Toutes les salles

Before 1934

The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

1934 - 1939

Against Fascism | Outbreak of War

Jan 1940 - Sept 1940

The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”

Sept 1940 - June 1941

State Antisemitism | Responses

June - August 1941

Armed resistance

August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

Oct - Dec 1941

Persecutions | The Resistance

Jan–Jul 1942

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

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

13.

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

Salle 9 - Rescue of Jewish Children 

Jul 42 – Feb 43

Young Jews, evacuated from an internment camp, took refuge at the OSE’s “Maison des Pupilles de la Nation” in Aspet. Some of the children are on their way to Switzerland, summer 1942.

Photo, June–August 1942, Aspet © Holocaust Encyclopedia, USHMM, Washington_03138

Room

9.1 A Coordinated Effort

Period

1942

Document Type

Photos

Keywords

Geographic area

Source

visit the hall 9 - Rescue of Jewish Children 

Documents from the same period

Documents

“Anti-Semitism Is Incompatible with Christianity,” Cahiers du Témoignage Chrétien, page 2 (April–May 1942).

Newspapers

Fraternité, “a liaison organ for French forces fighting against racist barbarism,” an underground publication in the southern zone. Issue No. 1, February 1942.

Newspapers

Unzer Wort condemns the extermination and calls for people to take up arms: “11,000 Jews—men, women, and children—were gassed to death by the Nazi thugs, who used them as test subjects.”

Photos

A group of Jewish Scouts caring for Jewish refugee children.

Photos

A major demonstration took place on July 14, 1942, in Lyon to protest against the Vichy regime and the German Occupation.

Notes