Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés

  • Committee for Assistance to Refugees
  • CAR
Identifier
339
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

With the moderation of French policy toward the refugees as a result of the election of the Popular Front government in the spring of 1936, French Jewish refugee relief revived. At the initiative of the Joint Distribution Committee, a new committee, Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés, was established with Raymond-Raoul Lambert as its general secretary. Under Lambert’s leadership, CAR focused on providing assistance, including vocational retraining, that would enable the refugees to finds a niche in France. From the fall of 1938 until the outbreak of the war in 1939-09 the staff of CAR worked unceasingly to ameliorate the situation of the refugees within the shifting constraints of French policy.

Places

  • Founded in France.

Sources

  • The Jews of Modern France / P.E. Hyman. - Berkeley/Los Angeles, 1998. - p. 155, 156