The One Thousand Children (often simply "OTC") refers to the approximately 1,400 mostly Jewish children who were rescued from Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied or threatened European countries, during the period 1934-1945, by organizations (both American and European) and also by individuals. Most importantly and specifically, the One Thousand Children refers only to those children who were forced to come unaccompanied and had to leave their parents behind in Europe. Most of these parents were murdered by the Nazis. (Originally only about one thousand such children had been identified as OTC children — hence the name "The One Thousand Children") (OTC)
The term also refers to the non-profit research and education organization One Thousand Children, Inc (OTC), whose primary purposes are to maintain a connection between the OTC children, to explore this little-known segment of American history, and to create archival materials and depositories.
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