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Rescue of Jewish Children


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Salle 9 - Rescue of Jewish Children

Jul 42 – Feb 43

9. The rescue of Jewish children


Mouvement National contre le Racisme (MNCR)

Fraternité, “a liaison organ for French forces fighting against racist barbarism,” an underground publication in the southern zone. Issue No. 1, February 1942.

First issue (April 1942) of *J’accuse*, an underground newspaper “fighting against racism,” denouncing Nazi barbarism and the arrests and murders of Jews.

Leaflet from the “National Front for the Liberation and Independence of France,” calling for action against anti-Semitic persecution, Nice, September 1942.

Young Jews, evacuated from an internment camp, took refuge at the OSE’s “Maison des Pupilles de la Nation” in Aspet. Some of the children are on their way to Switzerland, summer 1942.

The OSE secured permission from the prefecture for Jewish children under the age of 13 to be released from the Rivesaltes camp. More than 500 of them escaped deportation to the death camps (1942).

Issue No. 61 (June 25, 1942) of *L’Université libre*, an underground newspaper published by the communists G. Politzer, J. Decour, and J. Solomon, calls for the struggle for liberation.

Staff at the Amelot Committee’s clinic help Jews on the run by providing them with false identification and fake ration cards. They also care for children placed with foster families.

A major demonstration took place on July 14, 1942, in Lyon to protest against the Vichy regime and the German Occupation.

The October 10, 1942, issue of *J’accuse*, “the liaison organ of the French forces against racist barbarism,” published in the Northern Zone by the Mouvement National contre le Racisme (MNCR).

The October 20, 1942, issue of *J’accuse* reported on the reality of the extermination camps and called for “mobilization against forced deportations.”

A group of Jewish Scouts caring for Jewish refugee children.

Flyers announcing the patriotic event on November 11, 1942, at the Arc de Triomphe.

“Anti-Semitism Is Incompatible with Christianity,” Cahiers du Témoignage Chrétien, page 2 (April–May 1942).

Christian Testimony

Unzer Wort condemns the extermination and calls for people to take up arms: “11,000 Jews—men, women, and children—were gassed to death by the Nazi thugs, who used them as test subjects.”

The original handwritten text of the pastoral letter by Archbishop Saliège of Toulouse denouncing anti-Semitic persecution (August 23, 1942) and its transcription.

On August 26, 1942, the Vichy regime launched roundups in Montauban. Bishop Théas then published a letter “on respect for human dignity,” which was read during Mass on August 30, 1942.

The Special Police Commissioner of Périgueux is investigating the reading of Bishop Saliège’s pastoral letter (September 19, 1942).

The “Libération” Resistance movement published the pastoral letter from Archbishop Saliège of Toulouse denouncing anti-Semitic persecution (September 19, 1942).

Letter dated August 3, 1942, from Jean Leguay, delegate of René Bousquet, Secretary General of the Vichy Police, regarding the separation of parents from their children in deportation convoys.

Report dated August 14, 1942, from SS-Obersturmführer H. Röthke to A. Eichmann, regarding the deportation of 1,000 Jews to Auschwitz, noting that this convoy included children for the first time.

Letter from Pastor Marc Boegner to Pétain protesting the roundups and deportation of foreign Jews. Nîmes, August 20, 1942.

Telegram from René Bousquet, Secretary General of the Vichy Police, to the prefects, demanding that they completely rid their regions of all foreign Jews (August 22, 1942).