User:Jtourj/Holocaust Survivors Given Refuge in Morocco

By Albert Pallas

In 1938-39 the French were able to smuggle Jewish Holocaust survivors to save them and give them refuge. These refugees were saved from Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia and were given refuge in Morocco. Moroccan Jewish families that had 3 bedrooms in their homes offered room for each of the families of the survivors. Jewish families in Morocco also rented hotel rooms for those survivros who did not find a room in a house.

The Jews from Gibraltar were also taken in by Moroccan Jews and the Alliance School.

I remember growing up in Morocco knowing a very wealthy man, Maurice Attias, who lived in Safi who was quite a successful businessman. Mr. Attias and his family were one of the families who took in a family of survivors. As well as Mr. Attias's family there were others who supplied a warm house to the traumatized survisors. The Buchboot family, the Levy family, from Safi also took in survivors.

Albert Pallas jtourj@aol.com