Comité Inter-Mouvements Aupres des Evacues
- CIMADE
Dates of Existence
Founded in 1939-09
History
Comité Inter-Mouvements Aupres des Evacues was a protestant youth group created by the World Young Women Christian Association, the Young Men's Christian Association and the federation of Student Christian Movements in 1939-09. It was initially organized to assist residents of Alsace and Lorraine evacuated from the war zone by the French government. The organization had one clear conviction: the youth movements must unite in a common service to those whom the war had torn from their homes, the ‘displaced’. One of their activities was the opening, in the spring of 1942, of homes accredited to receive internees who obtained permission to leave the camps on condition that they be taken in charge by an authorized organization and remain under regular surveillance by the police. CIMADE belonged to the Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps.
Sources
The Holocaust, the French and the Jews / S. Zuccotti. – New York, 1993. – p. 68 God’s Underground / J.M. d’Aubigné, V. Mouchon, E.C. Fabre. – St. Louis, 1970. – p. 27, 31