Amitié Chrétienne

Identifier
364
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

1941/1943

History

Amitié Chrétienne is in some ways the Catholic counterpart of the Protestant CIMADE. Amitié Chrétienne was founded in 1941 in Lyon to help Jewish victims. Furthermore this organization worked in the camps and in clandestine activity. Amitié Chrétienne was officially abolished in late 1943, but its adherents and other Catholic groups continued their resistance activities individually or through other groups, organizing channels of escape.

Places

  • Founded in France, Lyon.

Sources

  • Verdict on Vichy : Power and prejudice in the Vichy France Regime / M. Curtis. - London, 2002. - p. 169, 207