Selected records and publications of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants
Extent and Medium
20,470 digital images, JPEG
25 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Œuvre de secours aux enfants (France)
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilmed collection from the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) Archives located at the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project in Aug. 2004.
Scope and Content
Contains documents related to the history of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) and the different homes it operated around France. Some of the personal archives and general correspondence of key figures of OSE such as Georges Garel, the founder of the "reseau Garel," a resistance network that ferried children over the French border into Switzerland, and Vivette Samuel are included. Personal files of individuals who were raised by OSE as their legal guardian are not included.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Samuel, Vivette, 1919-
- Garel, George.
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE
Subjects
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- France--Ethnic relations.
- Escapes--France.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--France.
- France
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Orphanages--France.
- World Union OSE--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Economic aspects--France.
- Jewish orphans--France.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from OEuvre de Secours aux Enfants
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USHMM holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from the Archives de l'OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) grouped under "Selected records from the Archives of the OSE". Detailed finding aids of the copies made by USHMM are available via the USHMM collection description