Armée Juive
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The Armée Juive (Jewish Army), was a
).Armée Juive was originally called the Mouvement des Jeunesses Sionistes (M.J.S.). Its intention was to protect threatened Jews and take their fighting skills back to Palestine to help create a Jewish State there. At its height,[when?] it had over 2,000 members[3] and was primarily concerned with helping Jews escape to Spain via the Pyrenees although it also conducted attacks and sabotage operations.
The first members of the AJ were recruited from a
The Army became the Organisation Juive de Combat[when?] and was officially registered under the French Forces of the Interior (FFI).[citation needed]
Placing my right hand on the blue and white flag,
I swear fidelity to the Jewish Army
And obedience to its leaders.
May my people live again,
May Eretz-Israel be reborn.
Liberty or death. - the oath of the Armée Juive.
Notable members
- Frida Wattenberg (1924–2020)
- Georges Loinger
- Marcel Marceau
- Cécile Reims
Notes
- ^ "Jewish Resistance Groups and Leaders". The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-253-33374-2
- ISBN 978-0-8133-2981-9
References
- Abraham Polonski and the Jewish resistance in France during the Second World War by Yehuda Ben-David, Yaʻel Zaidman, Miśrad ha-bitaḥon, 2002.
- Sephardi Jews in occupied France: under the tyrant's heel, 1940-1944 by Gitta Amipas-Silber, Rubin Mass, 1995.
- L'armée juive clandestine en France: 1940-1945 by Raphaël Delpard, Page après page, 2002.
- Jews in France during World War II by Renée Poznanski and Nathan Bracher, Brandeis University Press, 2001.
- Les Juifs dans la résistance et la libération: histoire, témoignages, débats by Yves-Claude Aouate and Anne Grynberg, 1985.
- Blessed is the match: the story of Jewish resistance by Marie Syrkin, Jewish Pubn Society, 1976.
- Contribution à l'histoire de la résistance juive en France, 1940-1944 by David Knout, Editions du Centre, 1947.