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Montpellier-Grenoble... 1942. Eléments pour une histoire des organisations communistes juives en zone Sud

Claude Collin

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The MOI (Main-d'?uvre immigrée: Immigrant Workforce), the structure set up as far back as the 1930s by the French Communist Party in order to organize its militants of foreign origin, played a decisive role in the enlistment of foreigners in the Resistance movement, both in the occupied and unoccupied zones. Among the groups which made up the MOI, the "Jewish subsection", that is to say the one which, theorically, grouped together Yiddish-speaking foreigners, was one of the most dynamic.During the summer of 1941, a group of young foreign Jews, who are mostly of Polish descent, forms in Montpellier around a few Communist militants and ex-members of the International Brigades and starts propaganda work. Following the invasion of the unoccupied zone in November 1942, some of them take refuge in the area occupied by Italians troops who are considered, quite rightly, to be less dangerous, for Jews, than the Germans. This small number of individuals go on to form the first Grenoble elements of what will later become the UJRE (Union des juifs pour la Resistance et l'entraide: Jewish union for resistance and mutual aid) and the UJJ (Union de la jeunesse juive: Union of Jewish youth). These organizations linked to the Jewish section of the MOI, will later play a significant role in the setting up of the Resistance movement in the Isère region, but above all will supply most of the combatants for "Liberté", the famous detachment of the FTP-MOI (Franc-tireurs et partisans de la Main d'?uvre immigrée: Immigrant workforce partisans and franc-tireurs).
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Mots-clés :

Communisme, Judaïsme

Chronologique:

XXe siècle
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Electronic reference

Claude Collin, “Montpellier-Grenoble... 1942. Eléments pour une histoire des organisations communistes juives en zone Sud”Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 44-3 | 1999, Online since , connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/271; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.271

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Claude Collin

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