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This article, based mostly on unpublished material, deals with the life of Andrée Salomon (1908-1985), an Alsatian Zionist militant who became a legendary figure of the French Jewish Resistance. In 1938, she organized the reception of the German children in Alsace. As chief of the social service of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) in the non-occupied zone, she directed the rescue of the children from the Vichy camps of Gurs, Rivesaltes and Les Milles to OSE homes. She was responsible for a secret network that hid children in non-Jewish institutions and saved more than 1,500 children and adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the development of Zionist views of Jerusalem among Zionists before 1948. Topics include the views of Zionist leader Theodore Herzl, the opening of the Zionist Office in Jerusalem - the Palestine Office, directed by Arthur Ruppin in Jaffa in 1908, and the Zionist view of Jerusalem versus the Zionist view of Tel Aviv.