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Paris - Photograph
Jewish quarter of Paris before World War II
A view of Rosiers Street in the Jewish quarter of Paris. This photograph was taken before World War II. Paris, France, date uncertain.
Item ViewJewish men wearing the mandatory Jewish badge in Paris
Jewish men wearing the mandatory Jewish badge in the Jewish quarter of Paris. France, after June 1942.
Item ViewBuses waiting at the entrance to the Vélodrome d'Hiver
Buses waiting at the entrance to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where almost 13,000 Jews were assembled before being transported to Drancy and other French transit camps. Paris, France, July 16 and 17, 1942.
Item ViewExcluding Jews from a playground
In German-occupied Paris, the fence around a children's public playground bears a sign forbidding entrance to Jews. Paris, France, November 1942.
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Liberation of Paris
Men of the 2nd French Armored Division attack the Chamber of Deputies, one of the last German stongholds, during the battle to liberate the French capital. Paris, France, August 1944.
Item ViewGerman officers surrender in Paris. France, August 1944.
German officers surrender in Paris. France, August 1944.
Item ViewFrench soldiers guard German prisoners outside the Louvre
French soldiers guard German prisoners outside the Louvre. Paris, France, August 1944.
Item ViewLiberation of Paris
US troops march down the Champs Elysees in Paris following the Allied liberation of the city. Paris, France, August 29, 1944.
Item ViewA young man in Paris wearing the mandatory Jewish badge
A young man in the Jewish quarter of Paris wears the mandatory Jewish badge. Paris, France, after June 1942.
Item ViewA group of Jewish women in Paris
A group of Jewish women in Paris. They are wearing the required yellow badges. Paris, France, June 8, 1942.
Item View"Aryanization" in France
"Aryanization" in France: this shop, belonging to Jews, has been given to a non-Jewish "temporary administrator." Paris, April 1942.
Item View1930s street scene in the Jewish quarter of Paris
Street scene in the Jewish quarter of Paris before World War II and the Holocaust. Paris, France, 1933–39.
Item ViewSeven-year-old Jacqueline Morgenstern
Photograph of seven-year-old Jacqueline Morgenstern in Paris, France, 1940. Jacqueline was later a victim of tuberculosis medical experiments at the Neuengamme concentration camp. The SS took 20 of the children who had been victims of medical experiments at Neuengamme to a school building in Hamburg. Situated on Bullenhuser Damm, this location was a subcamp of Neuengamme. Jacqueline and the other children in the group (10 boys and 10 girls, all Jewish) were killed there.
Item ViewRoundup in Paris
After the first roundup in Paris, French police escort foreign Jewish men from the Japy school to deportation trains at the Austerlitz station. Paris, France, May 14, 1941.
Item ViewA group of Jewish men at the Austerlitz station before deportation from Paris
A group of Jewish men on a train platform with French policemen at the Austerlitz station before deportation to the Pithiviers internment camp. Paris, France, May 1941.
Item ViewDeportation of Jews from Paris to Pithiviers
Jewish deportees, guarded by French police, board a train at the Austerlitz station for transport to the Pithiviers internment camp. Paris, France, May 1941.
Item ViewA Jewish woman turns in her radio
A Jewish woman carries her radio into a police station after a German order (August 8, 1941) demanded the confiscation of all radios owned by Jews. Paris, France, 1941.
Item ViewFrench police during a roundup of Jews in Paris
French police check the identity cards of pedestrians during the roundup of Jews on the Boulevard Voltaire (near the Place de la Republique) in Paris, France, August 20, 1941.
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