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Salle 9 - Rescue of Jewish Children

Jul 42 – Feb 43

On Feb. 10 and 11, 1943, Paul Vergara and Madeleine Guillemot, members of La Clairière, a Protestant organization in Paris, hid 63 Jewish children who had been smuggled out of the UGIF center on Rue Lamarck, with the help of Suzanne Spaak and Sophie Schwartz.

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Photo, 1943, Paris © Mémorial de la Shoah_CDJC (DR)

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Documents from the same period

“A liberated France will destroy all traces of racial hatred,” reads the headline of *Fraternité*, the official publication of the Mouvement National contre le Racisme, dated November 15, 1943.

“The Nation’s Tribute to the Righteous of France,” a plaque affixed in the crypt of the Panthéon on January 18, 2007.

André Network (or André Service)

Diagram of the Garel Network, a Resistance network created by Georges Garel in Lyon as part of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) to save Jewish children from deportation.

Excerpt from an MNCR leaflet calling on Christians “to take the initiative in launching a powerful campaign to mobilize public opinion” (March 1, 1943).

Excerpts from the newspaper *Notre Voix* dated June 20, 1943, denouncing the “traitors of the UGIF.”