Rabbi Elie Leopold Bloch, born in Dambach La Ville, France, 1909; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Rabbi Elie Leopold Bloch, born in Dambach La Ville, France, 1909; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities as a young rabbi in Metz; evacuation to Poitiers; activities on behalf of inmates of the camps with help from other Jews and the Red Cross; help to foreign and French Jewish children; obtains the release of children from the camps and spreads them out within the local Jewish community; deportation with his wife, Georgette,...