{"id":13385,"date":"2025-03-16T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/creation-in-1945-of-the-central-commission-for-children-cce-within-the-ujre\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:59:24","slug":"creation-in-1945-of-the-central-commission-for-children-cce-within-the-ujre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/creation-in-1945-of-the-central-commission-for-children-cce-within-the-ujre\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation in 1945 of the Central Commission for Children (CCE) within the UJRE."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation created in 1945 by the Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE), responsible for caring for Jewish orphans whose parents were exterminated during the war.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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From the end of hostilities, the first committee of leaders responsible for caring for Jewish orphans was led by Joseph Minc. It comprised four former M.O.I. resistance fighters\u2014C\u00e9cile Cerf, Sczmulek Farber, Jeanne Pakin, Sophie Schwartz\u2014and two educators, Isidore Bernstein and Louba Pludermacher. The new organisation, created in 1945, took the name Central Commission for Children within the UJRE and the Union of Jewish Women. It became more commonly known as the CCE. <\/p>

In 1946, Joseph Minc, Secretary General, was succeeded at the head of the CCE by Sophie Schwartz, then by Anna Vilner, until the Commission was dissolved. A first Home for the children of those executed and deported initially received the orphans in Montreuil-sous-Bois (in what is now Seine-Saint-Denis), but very quickly eight other children\u2019s homes, known as foyers, were created between 1945 and 1956. The last home closed in 1958. The most emblematic was the Denouval manor in Andr\u00e9sy, in the Paris region. <\/p>

These nine homes housed Jewish orphans, from early childhood through adolescence. Between 500 and 600 children were taken in and educated there. The homes operated thanks to numerous fundraising drives and occasional assistance. <\/p>

A progressive spirit animated the CCE children\u2019s homes: a revolutionary and secular ideal; innovative pedagogy (close to the ideas of Makarenko, Korczak, Montessori and the New Education movement); and the celebration of the heroes of the Resistance, embodied by the fighters of the Jewish section of the M.O.I. Holiday camps were spread across France. Each year, 2,500 Jewish children, orphaned or not, attended these camps, where they were introduced to the great Yiddish-language writers and encouraged to dream of \u201cthe bright days ahead\u201d. <\/p>

One of the most representative camps was that of Tarnos (Landes), with a health-focused mission.<\/p>

At the same time, the CCE organised youth clubs, while the Yiddish language could still be heard at the headquarters on Rue de Paradis (Paris 10th arrondissement).<\/p>

A large annual f\u00eate was organised in support of social and solidarity initiatives. Within the CCE, committed support for a just and democratic world went hand in hand with an attachment to a humanist Jewish identity, free of any communitarianism. <\/p>

The CCE ceased its activities in 1988.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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References:<\/strong><\/p>

\u2014 Collective work, 2022, The Central Commission for Children, From Tears to Laughter,<\/em> History and memory of a Jewish, secular and progressive organisation, 1945\u20132020. Le cherche midi-AACCE. <\/p>

\u2014 Wolikow Serge and Lassignardie Isabelle, 2015, Growing Up After the Shoah,<\/em> \u00c9ditions de l\u2019Atelier. <\/p>

\u2014 Hazan Katy, 2003, The Orphans of the Shoah, the Homes of<\/em> Hope (1944\u20131960).<\/em> Les Belles Lettres. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organisation created in 1945 by the Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE), responsible for caring for Jewish orphans whose parents were exterminated during the war. ———————— From the end of hostilities, the first committee of leaders responsible for caring for Jewish orphans was led by Joseph Minc. It comprised four former M.O.I. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"salle":[95],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-13385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documents","salle-salle-15-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13386,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions\/13386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-multi.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=13385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}