Comité Général de Défense des Juives

  • General Jewish Defense Committee
  • CGDJ
Identifier
336
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1943-06

History

In France it was after the occupation still possible to save thousands Jews by unifying all of the Jewish forces. This objective led to the creation of Comité Général de Défense des Juives in 1943-06. All of the social and political organizations of immigrant Jews united in this committee around a common program. In the spring of 1944, the CGDJ joined with native-born Jews (represented by the Consistory) to form the Conseil Représentatif des Juifs de France (Representative Council of the Jews of France). For the first time in the history of the Jews in France they were brought together in one formal representative body with both immigrants and French Jews.

Places

  • Founded in France.

Sources

  • The Holocaust and History : The known, the unknown, the disputed, and the reexamined / M. Berenbaum, A.J. Peck. – Bloomington, 1998. – p. 624 The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution / J. Adler. – New York, 1987. – p. 157