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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the the induction ceremony at the Pantheon for late French historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch and his wife Simonne Vidal, in Paris, France, June 23, 2026. (Alice Sacco/Pool Photo via AP)
June 27, 2026, 4:21 pm
Jewish resistance hero’s French Panthéon entry sparks row over far right’s use of his legacy
Marc Bloch, historian and fighter executed by the Nazis, referenced by head of National Rally party, whose founders include a Holocaust denier and member of the Waffen-SS
By Shira Li Bartov
French artist Henri Matisse works on his 'Grand Intérieur Rouge' canvas in his Villa le Rêve studio in Vence, circa April 1948. (Louis FOUCHERAND / AFP)
April 18, 2026, 7:52 am
Was Henri Matisse’s sojourn in Vichy France de facto collaboration or quiet resistance?
In his new book ‘Matisse at War,’ Christopher C. Gorham explores the renowned artist’s troubled but prolific life under the Nazis during WWII, and his family’s role in the French underground
By Rich Tenorio
Director Marcel Ophuls shows the Berlinale Camera award after he is honored for his lifetime achievement during the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, February 11, 2015. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
May 27, 2025, 8:05 am
Director of French Holocaust documentary ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ dies at 91
Oscar-winning filmmaker Marcel Ophuls forced France to face its WWII past with movie that punctured myth of broad resistance against collaboration with the Nazis
By Thomas Adamson
Left to right: Huguette Müller, and Marion Müller at the French resort village of Théoule-sur-Mer in 1943. (Courtesy of Tim Judah)
March 25, 2025, 5:44 am
In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?
Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A worker takes part during a demonstration of the equipment that will be used during the search campaign to find the remains of 47 German soldiers and a French woman accused of collaboration, executed in June 1944 by the local resistance, in Meymac western France, on June 27, 2023. (Pascal Lachenaud/AFP)
June 27, 2023, 8:33 pm
France searches for remains of German soldiers said executed by resistance in WWII
Dig sparked by claims of French Resistance veteran Edmond Reveil, who has said that 46 Nazi prisoners of war were shot dead in a wooded hillside in 1944
By Thomas SAINT-CRICQ
Lucette Ferraille, Ruth Ben David and Ruth Blau in the different stages of her life. (Courtesy Motti Inbari and Nechama Davidson)
June 5, 2023, 5:55 am
Villain or heroine? New book documents the complex, astonishing life of Ruth Blau
Prof. Motti Inbari explores the stranger-than-fiction tale of a woman who spied on the Gestapo, converted to Judaism twice, kidnapped a boy, and whose marriage sparked protests
By Amy Spiro
Jewish French resistance forger and later photographer Adolfo Kaminsky poses in front a camera at his home in Paris, November 16, 2012. (Joël SAGET / AFP)
January 11, 2023, 7:52 am
Adolfo Kaminsky, Jewish French forger who saved 14,000 in Holocaust, dies at 97
Photographer who produced fake documents later applied his skills to help displaced Jews reach Mandatory Palestine
By David I. Klein
Justus Rosenberg before receiving the award of the French Legion of Honor medal from French ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud at the French Consulate on March 30, 2017, in New York. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
November 22, 2021, 11:41 pm
Last surviving WWII hero who smuggled Jewish academics to safety from Nazis dies
Justus Rosenberg, a professor whose long career teaching literature was preceded by a remarkable tenure in the French resistance during the Holocaust, died aged 100 last month
By Shira Hanau
In this Nov.26, 2020 file photo, Hubert Germain, a WWII Resistance fighter and the last 'Compagnon de la Liberation' is pictured before a ceremony in homage to fellow Compagnon de la Liberation Daniel Cordier, at the Invalides monument in Paris (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool, File)
October 16, 2021, 4:02 am
Last of elite group of fighters who helped liberate France from Nazis dies
Hubert Germain passes away at 101; he was one of 1,038 people celebrated as ‘Companions of the Liberation’ for their efforts to free the country
By AP
Pierre Simonet in an undated photo (Courtesy)
November 6, 2020, 12:34 pm
France mourns loss of one of its last WWII resistance heroes
Pierre Simonet was one of three remaining fighters in the French resistance to the Nazi occupation at age 17; he died Thursday aged 99
By AFP
Edgard Tupet-Thome. (Anne Hidalgo/Twitter)
September 10, 2020, 12:02 am
One of France’s last World War II resistance heroes dies aged 100
Death of Edgard Tupet-Thome leaves just three people still alive out of 1,038 decorated with highest bravery order by Charles de Gaulle
By AFP
Dutch diplomat turned Jewish rescuer Sally Noach (Courtesy: Road on the Show Productions Ltd)
March 30, 2020, 4:50 pm
Dutch Jew who rescued 100s in Vichy France finally recognized — 80 years later
The ‘Dutch Schindler’ died on March 30, 1980, but Sally Noach’s tale went untold until his daughter investigated his wartime efforts and found a heroism fueled by hope and chutzpah
By Robert Philpot
Young màquisards, or Resistance fighters, in the Haute-Loire, France. (Mémorial de la Shoah/ Ronald Rosbottom)
January 28, 2020, 3:28 am
Teenagers helped launch the WWII French Resistance; many paid with their lives
In his new book ‘Sudden Courage,’ author Ronald Rosbottom reveals just how young many founding members of the underground fighters were — as well as how diverse
By Rich Tenorio
In this file photo taken on April 26, 2017 Yvette Lundy poses for a picture at a retirement home in Epernay, northeastern France ( FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP)
November 4, 2019, 10:47 am
French Resistance hero Yvette Lundy, who saved Jews in WWII, dies at 103
Lundy provided fake papers to Jews fleeing Nazis, survived the concentration camps and went on to teach reconciliation, giving talks to French as well as German students
By AFP
Joseph Joanovici's identity card photo, October 1944. (Public domain via wikimedia commons)
October 25, 2019, 7:44 am
Graphic novel depicts French Jew who got rich by helping both Nazis, Resistance
Now in English, award-winning ‘Once Upon a Time in France’ presents the thrilling and complicated life of profiteer Joseph Joanovici, who made millions staying alive at any cost
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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