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Selected individual files of children under the care of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE)

Document | Accession Number: 2009.78 | RG Number: RG-43.113M

Contains files of people who had been under OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) care in France during the occupation, and who in 2003 were living in the United States. Included is documentation on their Holocaust-era biographies, subsequent correspondence on emigration to the U.S., and information on non-Jewish families that hid children.

Date
inclusive:  1933-1950
Language
French
English
German
Genre/Form
Case files.
Extent
5,145 digital images : JPEG ; 1.58 GB.
67 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.

About This Document

Document Creator
Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants, Archives et Histoire
Reference
Hazan, Katy. Les orphélins de la Shoah : les maisons de l’espoir (1944-1960). Belles Lettres, Paris, 2000.

Zitoun, Sabine. OSE sous l’Occupation en France : du légalisme à la Résistance, 1940-1944, preface de Serge Klarsfeld, L’Harmattan, Paris,1990.

Zeitoun, Sabine. Ces enfants qu’il fallait sauver. Albin Michel, Paris, 1989.

Album by klarsfeld and Katy Hazan about the OSE children’s homes

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants, Archives et Histoire
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Records from the various children’s homes and the main office of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (France). Persons now living in the US, formerly cared for by OSE, made a written request in 2004 to have their files at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in May 2009.

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright Holder
Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants, Archives et Histoire
Conditions on Access
Restrictions on access. Only the individual concerned has access to his or her file. For other researchers access to these records are subject to the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) written authorization. Researchers must submit written requests to OSE, which must give its express consent. Contact: Œuvre de secours aux enfants,117, rue du Faubourg du Temple, 75010 Paris, Tel. 011 33 1 53 38 20 20 and fax 011 33 1 53 38 20 10
Conditions on Use
Restrictions on use. Permission from the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) is required for even small numbers of photocopies. Publication of documents for any reason must receive a written authorization from OSE. Dissemination of copies of the archival materials by electronic or computer communication is prohibited
 
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