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French police register new arrivals at the Pithiviers camp in the occupied zone of France. [LCID: 19003]
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France

Germany invaded France in May 1940. As part of the armistice agreement France signed with Germany that June, France was divided into occupied and unoccupied zones. A new French government was established in Vichy and allied with Nazi Germany. This government ruled the unoccupied southern part of France until November 1942, when the Germans occupied nearly all of France. Until France’s liberation in the summer of 1944, Jews experienced antisemitic legislation, deportations, and murder. However, there were also people in France that rescued and hid Jews at great risk to themselves. Explore more content related to France during the Holocaust (1933–1945).

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A group of Jewish men on a train platform with French policemen at the Austerlitz station before deportation to the Pithiviers internment ... [LCID: 44280]
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A group of Jewish men at the Austerlitz station before deportation from Paris
Jewish women wearing the required yellow badges. Paris, France, June 8, 1942. [LCID: 06660]
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A group of Jewish women in Paris
A Jewish women carries her radio into a police station after a German order (August 8, 1941) demanded the confiscation of all radios ... [LCID: 81037]
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A Jewish woman turns in her radio
A school class of girls in Oradour. All of the children pictured were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. [LCID: 25713]
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A school class of girls in Oradour
A young man wearing a dark suit and tie walks down a busy street. He looks towards the camera while wearing a Star of David patch on the right breast of his suit. There is a large sign painted on the side of one of the buildings.
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A young man in Paris wearing the mandatory Jewish badge
An advertisement for a series of lectures by Varian Fry, who worked in France to help anti-Nazi artists and intellectuals escape ... [LCID: 15048]
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Advertisement for a series of lectures by Varian Fry
African American soldier Warren Capers was recommended for a Silver Star for his actions during the Allied invasion of France. [LCID: 91464]
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African American soldier Warren Capers
Poster of a pro-Dreyfus parlor game, France, ca. 1898
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Alfred Dreyfus and the "Dreyfus Affair"
Allies evacuate troops from Dunkirk [LCID: dfa0761d]
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Allies evacuate troops from Dunkirk
Alsace-Lorraine [LCID: fra69080]
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Alsace-Lorraine
Forced labor in Tunisia
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Anti-Jewish Legislation in North Africa
Arlette Waldmann [LCID: 5691]
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Arlette Waldmann
Portrait of US combat photographer Arnold E. Samuelson. [LCID: 62747]
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Arnold E. Samuelson.
Arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany. The Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) helped Jews leave Germany after the Nazi rise to ... [LCID: 86403]
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Arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany
Marc Chagall, the Russian Jewish artist, at work in his studio in southern France. [LCID: 10116]
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Artist Marc Chagall in his studio
Beatrice Stern Pappenheimer [LCID: bpg0046f]
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Beatrice Stern Pappenheimer describes struggle among prisoners for meager food rations in Gurs camp

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