Assaf Atchildi
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| Born | Samarkand, Afghanistan |
| Nationality | Bukharan/French |
| Alma mater | University of Moscow |
| Occupation | Jewish surgeon |
Dr. Assaf Atchildi (born Atchildieff) was a Bukharan/French Jewish surgeon. He risked his own life and saved over 300 Jews in Nazi-occupied France by arguing they be exempt from Nazis' anti-Jewish laws because they were not ethnically Jewish as determined by the Nazis, only Jewish by belief.[1].
Early life
Born in Samarkand, Afghanistan (present day Uzbekistan) Dr. Assaf Atchildi moved to Moscow to study medicine at the University of Moscow. After his studies he moved to Paris, France where we was a general surgeon and president of the Bukharian community. He had two daughters, Dora and Elvira.
WWII
During the occupation of the Nazis, Dr. Atchildi and his wife Alexandria never registered as Jews. They instead convinced Nazi officials that Jews from Bukhara were Jugutis, a made-up term that depicts Persians who practice the faith but are ethnically different. Dr. Atchildi along with Abdol-Hussein Sadari an Iranian consul submitted documents to Nazi officials for the entire Bukharian Jewish community [2].
In 1941, six Jugutis who had registered with the police had been arrested and most of them were imprisoned in Drancy internment camp outside Paris. Using a German attestation to the Prefect of Police in Paris in early February of 1942 that Jugutis were not to be subjected to Vichy's anti-Jewish laws, Dr. Atchildi was able to obtain the release of two of the prisoners from Drancy [3].
Posthumously
In 2011, B'nai Brith World Center bestowed the Jewish Rescuer's Citation on Dr.Assaf Atchildi's daughter Dora Aftergood in honor of her fathers heroism during Nazi-occupied France.
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