Armée Juive

TheArmée Juive(Jewish Army), was aZionist resistancemovement inNazioccupiedVichy FranceduringWorld War IIwhich was created during January 1942 inToulouse.It was established and led byAbraham Polonskiand his wife Eugénie, the socialistLucien Lublin,^[1]Russian poetDavid Knout,and his wifeAriadna Scriabina^[2](daughter of the Russian composerAlexander Scriabin).

Armée Juive was originally called theMouvement des Jeunesses Sionistes (M.J.S.).Its intention was to protect threatened Jews and take their fighting skills back toPalestineto 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 thePyreneesalthough it also conducted attacks and sabotage operations.

The first members of the AJ were recruited from aTorahstudy group headed by RabbiPaul Roitman(1920). They includedArnold Mandel,Elie Rothnemer,Claude Strauss(writer Claude Vigée) andMaurice Hausner.They received funds to finance their activities fromMarc Jarblum,the socialist president of the refugeeZionist Organization of Francewhich operated fromSwitzerland.^{[citation needed]}

The Army became theOrganisation Juive de Combat^[when?]and was officially registered under theFrench 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

Notes

^"Jewish Resistance Groups and Leaders".The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.Retrieved6 March2013.
^Berenbaum, Michael J.; Peck, Abraham J. (1998),The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined,Indiana University Press, p. 835,ISBN 978-0-253-33374-2
^Edelheit, Hershel; Edelheit, Abraham J. Edelheit (1998),History of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary,Westview Press, p. 672,ISBN 978-0-8133-2981-9

References

Abraham Polonski and the Jewish resistance in France during the Second World Warby Yehuda Ben-David, Yaʻel Zaidman, Miśrad ha-bitaḥon, 2002.
Sephardi Jews in occupied France: under the tyrant's heel, 1940-1944by Gitta Amipas-Silber, Rubin Mass, 1995.
L'armée juive clandestine en France: 1940-1945by Raphaël Delpard, Page après page, 2002.
Jews in France during World War IIby Renée Poznanski and Nathan Bracher, Brandeis University Press, 2001.
Les Juifs dans la résistance et la libération: histoire, témoignages, débatsby Yves-Claude Aouate and Anne Grynberg, 1985.
Blessed is the match: the story of Jewish resistanceby Marie Syrkin, Jewish Pubn Society, 1976.
Contribution à l'histoire de la résistance juive en France, 1940-1944by David Knout, Editions du Centre, 1947.

[JewishResistance-1] "Jewish Resistance Groups and Leaders".The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.Retrieved6 March2013.

[2] Berenbaum, Michael J.; Peck, Abraham J. (1998),The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined,Indiana University Press, p. 835,ISBN 978-0-253-33374-2

[3] Edelheit, Hershel; Edelheit, Abraham J. Edelheit (1998),History of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary,Westview Press, p. 672,ISBN 978-0-8133-2981-9

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