Samuel, Julien
| Surname, Name The spelling of names follows “Spis imion żydowskich” [The list of Jewish first names] (Warszawa 1928), as it was the only means to avoid the doubling of people on the list. Exception was made for famous individuals whose names are widely known in another form than that proposed in “Spis”.
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Samuel, Julien |
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| Date of birth | 1912 |
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Location The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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Miluza |
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State The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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| Document | Haitian citizenship certificate |
| Fate | survived |
Samuel, Julien (1912–1981) – a French social worker and the Director of the Center of the Society for Assistance to Children (French Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, OSE) in Marseille
The son of Orthodox Jews Moïse and Sara, he was born on 10 October 1912 in Mulhouse in Alsace. He finished college in Strasbourg.
During the War, he was the Director of the Center of the Society for Assistance to Children in Marseille. In October 1942, he married Vivette Hermann, a volunteer from the camp in Rivesaltes. For the next five months, Julien and Vivette lived and worked together in Marseille, until the deteriorating political situation forced the closure of the local OSE Center. They then moved to Limoges, where they played a key role in transforming the OSE into an underground organization. Julien administered the Center and supervised its secret operations, being involved, among others, in the procurement of falsified documents, and also making efforts to ensure that all of the OSE’s existing houses and orphanages were duly closed. In July 1943, the couple had their first child, a daughter, whom they named Françoise Sara (later Elbaz). Julien and Vivette were later sent to Chambery with instructions to commence the organized smuggling of children from the OSE to Switzerland. They lived there under the assumed names of Claude and Henriette Lutz. On 8 May 1944, following a secret OSE meeting, Julien was arrested by the French police in Lyon. Two weeks later, he was placed on a deportation train headed for Drancy. He managed to escape and returned to Paris.
After the War, Vivette and Julien continued to work for the OSE. Julien organized medical and social aid, while Vivette provided care for Jewish refugees in Chambery. They next moved to Paris, where they had two more children: Jean-Pierre (1945) and Nicole (1948).
Julien Samuel died in Paris in 1981.