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OSE - Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants company history timeline

1921

Also in 1921, OSE was established in Lithuania and became a national organization in Poland, where it was known as TOZ (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Źidowskiej (Society for Safeguarding the Health of the Jewish Populace), both funded in large part by the Joint Distribution Committee.

1922

The Berlin OSE Committee was also formed in 1922 by immigrants from Russia, largely in response to famines in the lower Volga regions and southern Ukraine.

1923

At the OSE Congress in August 1923, the World Union of OSE Societies (World OSE) was established, with Albert Einstein as the honorary president.

1933

In 1933, the OSE moved its main office to Paris.

1934

In early 1934, OSE France was formed and immediately was faced with the question of the substantial stream of refugees who had escaped from Germany and Eastern Europe.

1940

Beginning in 1940, OSE personnel began to provide social services inside French internment camps, helping to improve sanitary conditions for thousands of foreign Jews, including German Jews who had been deported to France.

1942

The OSE saved more than 1,200 Jewish children in the process, with financial assistance from the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). When the Germans occupied all of France in November of 1942, the OSE intensified its largely clandestine activities.

1944

By the end of 1944, the OSE had rescued more than 5,000 Jewish children from certain death.

2014

The photographs were processed by Rachel S. Harrison in May 2014, made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.

2015

August 2015: Added dao links by Eric Fritzler.

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