See also: Pupil (homonymy)

In France, a war orphan is a Orphelin profiting from a particular Tutelle of the State. All those are concerned whose parents “Died for the Patrie”.

Categories of pupils

1. off-set children of Jewish S (decree of July 2000 - Government Lionel Jospin);
2. children of deportees not-Jews, following acts of resistance and other victims of cruelty Nazi E (Decree of July 2004 - Government Jean-Pierre Raffarin);
3. father died during the countryside of France from May-June 1940;
4. father died in the maquis, during operations, without to be shot;
5. father died within the framework of the Free French Army;
6. father (or mother) died by chance, by crossing the road of engagements;
7. father (or mother) died during Bombardment S (allies or enemies);
8. father sunken invalid of captivity (and/or deceased of the continuations of this captivity);
9. father enlisted of force in the German armed (In spite of us);
10. father died in Germany as a Prisoner of war (oflag, stalag or factory);
11. father died during the Japanese surprised attack of March 1945 in Indo-China;
12. died of the Father nondefinite.

The context is here that of the Second world war, to correspond to the only discrimination related to the decrees of 2000 and 2004 which refer to cruelty Nazi. There does not exist categorization for the pupils resulting from the other conflicts.

The term of war orphan should not be confused with that of Pupille of the State. Indeed a " Pupil of État" is a child who, in one way or another, is not or more with the load of his parents and was entrusted to the service of the social security to childhood.

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