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  1. Jewish Agency

    • הסוכנות היהודית
    • JAFI
    • Jewish Agency for Israel

    Founded in 1921

    The Jewish Agency is established in Yishuv to promote Jewish self-government as a part of the British Mandate by the League of Nations. The Jewish Agency was reluctant to expends funds on rescue, arguing moneys should be provided by international Jewish communities. However, some funding was spent on modest rescue efforts. This group tried to rescue Jews in Transnistria, urged the Allies to save Jews from concentration camps, advocated the bombing of railway hubs, and brought orphans to Palestine. However, the Jewish Agency refused to fund the Europa Plan or ‘Blood for Trucks’.

  2. Juedische Historische Dokumentation - Linz

    Branch of the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone in Linz.

  3. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)

    • J.T.A.

    1917 - Present

    The Jewish Telegraphic Agency - former Jewish Correspondence Bureau - was created by the journalist Jacob Landau with the purpose of collecting and disseminating news among and affecting the Jewish communities of the diaspora.

  4. Jewish Confederation of Ukraine

    • Evreiskaia konfederatsiia Ukrainy
    • EKU

    1999 - Present

    Established in 1999, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (Evreiskaia konfederatsiia Ukrainy; EKU) is an association of national, regional, and local organizations with a focus on “philanthropy, the reconstruction of the Jewish national way of life, and the support of humanitarian values.” It was set up by four umbrella organizations: the Union of Jewish Religious Organizations of Ukraine (Ob”edinenie Iudeiskikh Religioznykh Organizatsii Ukrainy; OIROU), the Society for Jewish Culture / Jewish Council of Ukraine (Obshchestvo Evreiskoi Kultury / Evreiskii Sovet Ukrainy; ESU), the Association ...

  5. Zvi Mersik

    • צבי מרדיק

    Zvi Mersik, member of the Dror youth movement and the Jewish underground in the Bialystok ghetto.

  6. Bialystok Ghetto Underground Archive

    • ארכיון מרסיק טננבוים
    • Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive

    The archive gets its name from Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, who set up the archive in early 1943, and Zvi Mersik, one of Mordechai Tenenbaum’s outstanding aides, who continued to maintain the archive after Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff’s death. Most of the documentation, which was created between July 1941 and April 1943, is located in the Yad Vashem Archive. The original material is not concentrated in one place: some of it is housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the rest of the material is still in the hands of unknown private individuals.

  7. Dror - Poland

    • דרור - פולין

  8. Tenenbaum Mordekhai

    • Tenenbaum, Mordecai, 1916-1943
    • Ṭenenboim-Ṭamarof, Mordekhai 1916-1943
    • Ṭamarof, Mordekhai Ṭenenboim 1916-1943
    • Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, Mordekhai, 1916-1943
    • Tamaroff, Mordecai, 1916-1943
    • ...

    1916

    1943

    Organised resistance in Bialystok gehtto. Zionist.

  9. 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.

  10. Mayer Saly

    • מאיר סלי
    • Mayer, Saly, 1882-1950
    • Saly, Mayer
    • Saly, Mayer, 1882-1950

    1882

    1950

    President of the Schweizerische Israelische Gemeindebund (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities) [SIG] 1936-1943 and representative of JOINT in Switzerland.

  11. Levente

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

  12. District Court Hamm i. Westfalen

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

  13. Alexander Mach

    One of the leaders of faschist Slovak puppet state

  14. Polish police

    • משטרה פולנית

  15. Bloch Elie-Leopold

    1909

    1943

    Rabbi. Member of the Jewish underground in France.

  16. 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.

  17. 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)

  18. Born, Friedrich

    10/06/1903

    14/01/1963

    Chief Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross of Switzerland in Budapest (Hungary) between May 1944 and March 1945. During the period from May 1944 to January 1945, Born issued thousands of Red Cross letters of protection (Schutzbriefe) to Jews. He put over 60 Jewish institutions under Red Cross protection and housed over 7,000 Jewish children and orphans. He worked closely with the other neutral diplomatic legations, and set up dozens of Red Cross protected houses. In 1987, Born was designated as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem (Israel).

  19. Garel Georges

    • Garel, Georges, 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grigori 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grégori 1909-1979

    1909

    1979

    Ran one of the OSE networks, rescuer of Jewish children in Vichy France by passing them of as gentiles and hiding among the non-Jewish French population.

  20. Reik Haviva

    1914

    20/11/1944

    One of the Jewish Agency's parachutist from Palestine sent by the Jewish Agency and the British army on various missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.. Captured and executed by Waffen-SS in Slovakia