OSE (Ouevre de Secours aux Enfants) armband

Object | Accession Number: 1991.145.1

Overview

Brief Narrative: Armband isssued to and worn by Julien Engel as identification for group of 60 children transported to the U.S.A. aboard "Athos II" leaving Marseilles September 1946 under the auspices of the French-Jewish aid organization, O.S.E. (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants).
Date: issue: 1946 September
Geography: acquired: Marseille (France)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Julien Engel
Contributor: Subject: Julien Engel
Biography: Julien Engel's parents were arrested and eventually transported to Auschwitz. Julien and his younger brother George were saved. They were sheltered in Cannes for three years by Rayon de Soleil, a private children's home. They were liberated in mid-August 1944. The boys were sent to the O.S.E. home in Orsay, outside of Paris before boarding the Athos II. On September 6, 1946 (two days out of New York) Julien celebrated his Bar Mitzvah. The ceremony was attended by Marc Chagall.

Language: French
Classification: Identifying Artifacts
Category: Armbands
Object Type: Armbands (lcsh)
Physical Description: Embroidered on armband: "SE, 10, J. Engel."
Dimensions: overall: Height: 3.120 inches (7.925 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm)
Materials: overall : cloth, ink

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The armband was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Julien Engel.