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  1. Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna

    • Central Jewish Historical Commission
    • ועדה היסטורית יהודית בפולין
    • Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna w Polsce
    • Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland

    One of the organization’s first projects was to prepare elaborate questionnaires for groups of Holocaust survivors. By December 1945, some 3,000 testimonies had been collected, constituting one of the most significant bodies of evidence about the Holocaust gathered in the immediate postwar years. In early 1945, the commission began publishing annotated editions of these responses. It then sought monographs on the Holocaust in Poland, based largely on evidence it had gathered. By late 1947, the commission had collected about 7,300 testimonies and had published 38 books.

  2. Levente

    Paramilitary youth organizations in Hungary in the interwar period and during the Second World War.

  3. District Court Hamm i. Westfalen

    • בית המשפט העל-מחוזי ב-Hamm i. Westfalen

  4. Polish police

    • משטרה פולנית

  5. Vaad Hahatzalah (New York)

    • ועד ההצלה של אגודת הרבנים בארצות-הברית
    • Rescue Committee of United States Orthodox Rabbis
    • Vaad Hahatzalah
    • Vaad Hatzala

    Founded in 1939 continued its activity until the early 1950s.

    A body originally established to rescue rabbis and yeshivah students during World War II. Though originally focusing exclusively on rabbis and yeshivah students, it expanded its agenda to assist all Jews in the wake of the revelation of the Final Solution and became the representative relief agency of American Orthodox Jewry.

  6. Vaad ha-Hatzala in Kushta (Istanbul)

    • ועד ההצלה בקושטא (Istanbul)
    • Rescue Committee (Vaad Hahatzalah) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel
    • Vaad haatzala in Kushta (Istanbul)

  7. Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa

    • Jewish Fighting Organization
    • JFO

    Founded in 1942-07-28

    Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was set up in 1942. A more broad-based Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was set up on 1942-10-15. The political leadership of ŻOB was the Żydowski Komitet Narodowy (Jewish National Committee), and the organization had about 500 members. Its units fought in the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto under the command of Mordechaj Anielewicz.

  8. Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

    • יד ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה
    • Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah

    From 1953 to the present

    In 1953, the Israeli Knesset enacted the Yad Vashem Law, which determined that among its other missions, the task of Yad Vashem is “to collect, examine and publish testimony of the disaster and the heroism it called forth…” Indeed, efforts to document the Holocaust had begun long before the passage of the law. From the Nazi rise to power in Germany, and throughout World War II, there were those who documented the events as they were taking place, often under the harshest conditions. Immediately after the war, centers for documentation and the collection of testimonies were established in ma...

  9. Yad Vashem archives

    • ארכיון יד ושם
    • YV archives

    From 1953 to the present

    The Yad Vashem Archives holds various types of materials related to the Holocaust period, materials related to the life of the Jews in Europe between WWI and WWII and materials related to the life of the survivors after the Holocaust. Among these materials, the Yad Vashem Archives holds individual documents such as letters, diaries, photos, films, testimonies and personal documents which had been donated to the Archives by individuals. Many of these documents are original. Other types of documents available in the archives are those which were created by Jewish organizations before, during ...

  10. Beitar - Brit Trumpeldor

    • בית"ר - ברית יוסף טרומפלדור

    Youth Movement Connected to the Revisionist Party

  11. Knesset

    • כנסת
    • Israeli Parliament
    • בית הנבחרים ישראלי

    From 14/02/1949 to the present

  12. Chetnik movement

    • Chetniks

    The Chetnik movement was founded on the ideology of an expansionist Serbia, a common state for the Serbian people. From the establishment of the Yugoslav state in 1918-12 until its destruction in 1941-04, the Chetnik organizations were pillars of expansionist Serbian elements within the top ranks of the government.

  13. Einsatzgruppe B

    • EG B

    1941/1944

    Einsatzgruppe B, 655 troops initially, had its headquarters in Smolensk. Areas of operation were Belorussia and Smolensk district. Its first commander was SS-Obergruppenführer Arthur Nebe. He was implicated in the 1944-07-20 assassination attempt against Hitler and executed in the spring of 1945. Himmler replaced him with SS-Gruppenführer Erich Naumann and later SS-Oberführer dr. Horst Böhme and SS-Standartenführer dr. Heinz Seetzen. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgru...

  14. Einsatzgruppe A

    • EG A

    1941/1944

    Einsatzgruppe A, 1.000 troops initially, had its headquarters in Danzig. Areas of operation were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Leningrad district. Einsatzgruppe A’s first commander was SS-Standartenführer dr. Walter Stahlecker. After Stahlecker’s death in a firefight with guerillas in 1942, Einsatzgruppe A was led by Heinz Host, SS-Oberführer dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader and SS-Oberführer dr. Friedrich Panzinger. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind t...

  15. Einsatzgruppe D

    • EG D

    1942/1943

    Einsatzgruppe D, 600 troops initially, had its headquarters in Piatra-Neamt, Romania. Areas of operation were southern Ukraine, Crimea, Ciscaucasia. Dr. Otto Ohlendorf commanded Einsatzgruppe D. Himmler replaced him with SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei dr. Walter Bierkamp. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Sovie...

  16. Einsatzkommando 8

    • EK 8

    1942/1943

    Einsatzkommando 8 was a mobile killing squad of Einsatzgruppe B.

  18. Einsatzgruppe Serbien

    • EG Serbien

    Founded in 1941-04

    Einsatzgruppe Serbien was founded in 1941-04. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.

  19. Sonderkommando 10b

    Founded in 1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe D, established in 1943. Sonderkommando 10b, assigned to the 3rd Romanian Army, took part in massacres of Jewish inhabitants of Czernowitz, Skadovsk, Feodosia, Kertsh and Dzhankoy.

  20. Sonderkommando 4a

    1942/1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe C. Sonderkommando 4a is also known as Einsatzkommando 4a, even in reports of the Nazis in 1941.