They were welcomed by the Union’s three deputy vice-presidents, Ida Apeloig, Simon Grobman and François Szulman together with other members of the board.
Founded in 1944, by more than 7500 Jews who had volunteered to serve in the ranks of the French army, the Union is committed to passing on the glorious but little known pages of these men and women.
In 1939, 25 000 Jews of foreign origin volunteered to fight the Nazis. They took part in the battles of Narvik in Norway, and the Somme, Aisne and Ardennes in France in 1940. Several thousand were killed in action. Those who survived and were made prisoners ended up in the German Stalags. Those who were able to avoid captivity eventually had to endure the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis with the help of the Vichy government.
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