Comité Rue Amelot

Comité Rue Amelot 

Comité Rue Amelot , a welfare and rescue group in Paris, was established by representatives of several local immigrant social service centers anxious to continue operations under the difficult circumstances of German occupation. Participating agencies included soup kitchens, health dispensaries, and other welfare centers such as the nonpolitical Federation des Societies Juives de France (FSJF) and three Zionist groups with differing orientations toward Marxism. Originally intended simply to continue the distribution of cooked meals, clothing, medicines, and health care to indigent Jews in the Paris area, the committee drifted gradually into clandestine activity. 

The Holocaust, the French and the Jews / S. Zuccotti. – New York, 1993. – p. 68