Rue Amelot

Title: Rue Amelot

Inclusive Dates: 1939-1944

ID: RG 343

Extent Information

11'8"; 15 5"ltr; 12 5"lgl; 1 2.5"ltr; 1 2.5"lgl

Creators

Rue Amelot (France)

Administrative/Biographical History

The committee "Rue Amelot" was founded in Paris on June 15, 1940, in the office of the organization Colonie Scolaire, located at 36 Rue Amelot. Rue Amelot functioned as an underground organization providing aid to refugees, internees and children. It achieved its aims by clandestinely coordinating the activities of five social welfare organizations, the Colonie Scolaire and its medical dispensary, 'La Mere et L'Enfant', and four canteens, run by the Cercle Amical, the Foyer Ouvrier Juif, the Foyer Amical and the Federation de Societes Juives. Rue Amelot provided medical services, clothing, free meals, legal aid and shelter for children. At different times, the Rue Amelot received financial or other support from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, OSE and ORT. Rue Amelot was one of many Jewish institutions in the Paris area affiliated with the UGIF network and it was listed as section 69 of the Third UGIF Group of the Northern Zone. The organization was directed by Dovid Rapoport.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Belgium
Children
Communal Welfare Organizations
Concentration, Death, Labor, and Internment camps
France
Health and Health Care
Holocaust and Aftermath
Rabbis
Refugees
Resistance, World War II

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Records

Finding Aid Information

Inventories: English, 57 pp., typed; Yiddish (incomplete) by Z. Szajkowski in YIVO Archives authority file

Administrative Information

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Other Formats: MK 510 (37)

Description: Reports relating to the formation of Rue Amelot. Materials on early activities, 1940-1941. Correspondence regarding the Jewish situation in Belgium, 1940. Materials relating to internment camps. Reports from camps in Beaune-La Rolande, Pithiviers, Troyes, Compiegne, Poitiers. Reports of activities of Rue Amelot in the camps, especially in Beaune-La Rolande and Pithiviers. Reports from camps in Germany and Poland. Correspondence from internees to Rue Amelot. Letters from hostages shortly before their deaths. Reports from Madame Valency and Rabbi Eliyohu Bloch about camps. Some photographs of synagogues in Pithiviers. Files of Colonie Scolaire relating to internees and refugees receiving aid. Files of places where children were sheltered, and information on families providing shelter. Correspondence with people hiding Jewish children. Correspondence with children being hidden. Reports and accounts relating to the Rue Amelot kitchen. Lists of acquisitions. Daily registers of foods consumed. Statistics on packages sent to needy Jews. Correspondence, reports and memoranda to and from the UGIF. Correspondence with: orphan homes, Committee to Help Hungarian Jews, Quakers, Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, L'Action Orthodoxe, Office d'Orientation Professionelle, Comite Francais de Secours Aux Enfants.