Paris 1940-1944The daily routine
of Parisians
under the Occupation

  • Paris 1940-1944, The Routine under Siege
  • Masters of the Image
  • The German Presence
  • Paris and Collaboration
  • Expositions
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Deliberately "Blurring Daily Life"
  • Paris is hungry, Paris is cold
  • Production
  • Labor Unions in Disarray
  • The War Goes On
  • Multiple Resistances
  • The Resistance Goes Public
  • Cracking Down
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  • The Original Exhibit at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris
  • Acknowledgements and credits
  • Accessibility
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  • Français / English
  • Arrests, Executions, Torture
  • Liberation at last
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Autour du sapin, [Around the Christmas Tree]


Les Tourelles camp, Christmas 1943, signed
Watercolor on paper
Champigny-sur-Marne, Musée de la Résistance nationale © MRN
"We made cards like these to make the families happy. Here, the choir of les Tourelles that was doing what it could. Popular songs, especially those of Hanns Eisler, patriotic, revolutionary songs—the whole gamut got sung."