Alain Morley collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513621
• English
• 1940
• overall: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

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 i...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513622
• English
• 1940
• overall: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Badge with the 1940 insignia of the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs Unionistes de France {EEUdF), a Protestant division of the Boy Scouts in France (Scoutisme Français). After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, scouting was prohibited in the German occupied north, but continued in the south under the French collaborationist Vichy regime. In fall 1943, Germany occupied the south. 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 th...