![Documentation for a false identity: Simone Weil [LCID: 1998z08j]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/cefa867e-f175-411a-98ef-b28db61041ad.jpg)
Simone Weil kept this blank identification card bearing her picture in case her cover as "Simone Werlin" were blown and she needed to establish a new false identity. Both resistance workers and sympathetic government employees provided her the necessary stamps and signatures. Such forged documents assisted Weil in her work rescuing Jewish children as a member of the relief and rescue organization Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (Children's Aid Society; OSE).
What pressures and motivations may have influenced the decisions of rescuers and those who resisted?
Why are documents, photographs, and artifacts like this one important historical evidence?
We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies, Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, the Claims Conference, EVZ, and BMF for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of donor acknowledgement.
