Circuit Garel

George Garel was the owner of a small electrical appliance shop in Lyons. Garel established contact with Abbé Glasberg and decided to try his hand at smuggling out a group of children at a camp at Vénissieux near Lyons, who were on the point of being carried of to Drancy and Poland. On 1942-08-26, Garel and a few others cut the fence of the camp and took 108 children away on trucks to be dispersed among Christian homes and institutions. The Circuit Garel, as it was called, was swiftly organized. By mid-1943, Garel had four sub regions with their own commands, with at least twenty-nine full-time workers. He used a system of small cells which ensured that workers did not even know that they were hiding Jewish children.