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  10. ESRA

    • Israelitische Zentrale für soziale Fürsorge „ESRA"

    Help organisation for Jewish refugees founded by the Luxembourg Jewish Communities. ESRA helped Jewish refugees from Germany and from German occupied territories.

  11. Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg

    • Israelite Consistory of Luxembourg

    The Israelite Consistory of Luxembourg was established during the Napoleon times in 1806 as the highest body governing the Jewish congregations in the province of Luxembourg.

  12. Gustav Simon

    Nazi Gauleiter in the Moselland Gau from 1940 until 1944 and Chief of the Civil Administration in Luxembourg, which was occupied at that time by Nazi Germany.

  13. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland

    • Reich Association of Jews in Germany

    1939-07-04/1943

    This successor entity to the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden started 1939-07-04, charged by the Nazis as its major mission emigration of Jews from the Reich. In included all Jews as defined by the Nuremberg Laws, but its jurisdiction was confined to Germany and the Sudetenland. Austria and Bohemia-Moravia were excluded. The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland came under the direct control of the SS who gave it tasks that eventually led to the Final Solution. It continued to provide Jewish welfare and schooling. The emigration aspects ended after 1941-10-01. The Emigration sectio...

  14. Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu

    • Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation
    • UNRRA

    The Czechoslovak office for Relief and Rehabilitation (also known as the UNRRA) arranged the contact and negotiations between the postwar Czechoslovak establishment and the international organization of UNRRA - United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The office was established as a part of the Ministry of Nutrition and later in 1948 incorporated into the Ministry of Finance. It was divided into several departments and officially was functioned till July 1947, however the disposal of the office lasted till 1951.

  15. Magyar Izraeliták Pártfogó Irodája

    • Bureau for the Protection of the Rights of the Jews of Hungary
    • MIPI

    The Bureau for the Protection of the Rights of the Jews of Hungary was established with the official permission of Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer, the minister of Interior in 1938. It was a Jewish aid organization and it was permitted to negotiate with Western Jewish organizations, the most important of which was the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).

  16. Auschwitz Protocol

    • Vrba-Wetzler Report

    This report based on accounts by prisoners Walter Rosenberg and Alfréd Wetzler, who had escaped from Birkenau in April 1944. It provided a precise description and map sketches of the camp’s layout, operation, selection and extermination techniques. In Hungary the illegal Zionist organizations were the first to receive the information, but the protocol soon reached the Central Jewish Council as well as members of the non-Jewish resistance and Regent Miklós Horthy’s circles. Through Zionist channels, a copy of the protocol reached Switzerland and the British and U.S. governments.

  17. Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann

    • Eichmann-Sonderkommando
    • SEK

    It was a special unit of SS soldiers under the immediate command of Adolf Eichmann. After the German occupation of Hungary Eichmann arranged with his special unit the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews.

  18. Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság

    • Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee
    • Vaadat ha’ Ezra ve’ha’Hatzalah
    • Vaada

    An illegal Hungarian Zionist relief organization founded in 1942–1943 for the rescue, hiding, and support of Jews fleeing from neighboring countries. Its most renowned members were Executive Director Ottó Komoly, Executive Vice Director Rezső Kasztner, Joel Brand and his wife Hansi, Mózes (Moshe) Schweiger and Ernő Szilágyi. After the German occupation of Hungary the Vaada initiated negotiations with the SS in order to rescue Hungarian Jews.

  19. National Committee of Hungarian Jews for Attending Deportees

    • Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága
    • DEGOB

    One of the key organizations responsible for the repatriation and relief of Holocaust survivors in Hungary. DEGOB was established in Budapest in March 1945. It received its financial support from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the International Red Cross, and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. DEGOB organized twenty-six expeditions in 1945 and managed to repatriate several thousand Hungarian deportees from former Nazi camps throughout Europe. In addition to providing aid for survivors, DEGOB was one of the earliest and largest projects to document the mass destruction of Eu...

  20. András Kun

    Hungarian priest and Minorite friar. After the German occupation of Hungary he joined the Arrow Cross Party and on 16 October 1944 he contributed to the Arrow Cross takeover by distributing weapons in Városmajor. He joined the 12th district party organization as an Arrow Cross member and a friar, and played a dominant role in the crimes, atrocities and murders against the Jews in Budapest. In 1945 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.