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FRENCH BOYSCOUT ECLAIREURS ISRAELITES JEWISH DIVISION HOLOCAUST ERA 1940

Here's a wonderful vintage French badge of the Eclaireurs Israelites of France, the Jewish division of the Boyscouts in France from 1940. For more information see below. This badge shows two lions with the torah tablets in the background. Maker mark on the back, see images. This badge is pictured on the US Holocaust Museum site, see the history below.

From the US Holocaust Museum ... Bronze insignia badge of the Eclaireurs Israélites de France, the Jewish division of the Boy Scouts in France. Founded in 1923 to attract boys to Judaism, by the 1930s, EIF was very involved with Zionism. After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, EIF could operate openly only in unoccupied southern France. EIF ran children's homes which were soon crowded by the children of Jews held in internment camps. In March 1942, when the Germans began large scale deportations of Jews, EIF formed a resistance unit, La Sixieme. They developed a rescue network for Jewish children, placing them in hiding or smuggling them out of the country and providing forged identity papers. EIF is credited with saving several thousand Jews. In the Tarn region, members of an underground fighting EIF unit, Companie Marc-Haguenau, under EIF founder Robert Gamzon, and members of Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs Unionistes de France, a Protestant division of the Scouts, under Robert Cook, formed the Maquis de Vabre. Also known as Corps franc de la liberation 10, they joined the French forces of the interior and American commandos to liberate Castres on August 20, 1944, capturing 4500 German soldiers.

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