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Salle 9 - Rescue of Jewish Children

Jul 42 – Feb 43

9. The rescue of Jewish children


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.

Suzanne Spaak

Larissa Wuzek-Gruszow, who was initially placed at the UGIF, was later hidden by Sophie Schwartz, from the Jewish section of the M.O.I., at “La Clairière” and then with a family in the countryside.

Leaflet by the Mouvement National contre le Racisme (MNCR) aimed at university students and denouncing pseudo-scientific courses on racism and anti-Semitism (March 1, 1943).

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

Letter dated July 13, 1943, from the UGIF to the Rothschild Foundation, requesting a list of all Jews in hospitals for forwarding to the Germans.

Rothschild Hospital

Letter dated July 20, 1943, from the UGIF to the Rothschild Foundation acknowledging receipt of the list of Jewish hospital patients.

The “Beiss Yessoïmim” orphanage in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire neighborhood): In March 1943, the children were evacuated to the Nièvre region to be hidden there. They escaped deportation.

Some of the MNCR members involved in rescuing Jewish children.

MNCR Circular (July 1943) on actions to be taken in July and August 1943, one year after the Vél’ d’Hiv’ roundup.

The Journey of a Hidden Child: An Excerpt from Daniel Mandelbaum’s Account.

“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.

Garel Network

Sophie Schwartz

Charles Lederman

The Righteous

Paul Vergara

Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO)