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Source: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/france-jewish-resistance/
The Contribution of the Jewish Resistance in the Rescue of the Jews of France
(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Dr. Tsilla Hershco - Hundreds of members of the Jewish Resistance in France operated during the Nazi occupation in an autonomous and separate framework from the French Resistance and contributed greatly to the rescue of 230,000 Jews - 3/4 of French Jewry. Members of the Jewish Resistance issued good-quality forged certificates and food stamps without which it would have been impossible to obtain groceries. They maintained regular contact with hidden children to boost their morale and prevent their loss to the Jewish people. They assisted detainees in the camps and smuggled them away; they moved convoys of children and adults to hiding places in France, Switzerland and Spain; and they set up guerrilla groups and transferred funds for the struggle against the Nazi occupier. The writer, a senior researcher at the BESA Center, is the author of Those Who Walk in the Dark Will See the Light: The Jewish Resistance in France, Holocaust and Resurrection: 1940-1949 (Hebrew).