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  1. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Nürnberg

    • SD Leitabschnitt Nürnberg

    The Sicherheitsdienst was an intelligence and surveillance organization, established in 1931 under Reinhard Heydrich. Among its major tasks were monitoring real or imagined enemies of national socialism and reporting on the state of opinion among the German public. The SD was widely represented, for example with an office in Nürnberg.

  2. NSDAP Hauptamt für Volkstumfragen

    • NSDAP Main Office for Folkdom Questions

  3. Entraide Temporaire

    Founded in the 1920s

    Entraide Temporaire, a Paris-based network, was a secular group created by Lucie Chevalley, president of the Service Social d'Aide aux Émigrants. The idea came up to reactivate an existing children's charity founded in the 1920s called Sauvetage de l'Enfance, which for the circumstances was renamed Entraide Temporaire.

  4. Central Yiddish School Organization

    • CYSZO

    Founded in the 1920s

    Founded in the early 1920s as a response to Jewish cultural autonomy after Polish independence, the Central Yiddish School Organization provided secular Jewish education in Yiddish.  As many young Jews began to redefine their Jewish identity in relation to the modern world, some emerged as new kinds of nontraditional rebbes or rebeyim.

  5. Rabotnicheski mladejki saiuz

    • RMS

  6. Front of the Wilderness Generation

    The Front of the Wilderness Generation united all the Zionist sectors on the basis of their common denominator. The training kibbutz members occupied themselves with working the land, community work such as teaching in orphanages and helping in hospitals and soup kitchens, and public work such as paving roads. After work they conducted local cultural and educational activities, according to the ideology of the group. Most groups laid an emphasis on learning Hebrew and Jewish history.

  7. Einsatzgruppe V

    • EG V

    When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939-09, a special Einsatzgruppe was attached to each of the five German armies of the invasion force, with a sixth based in Posen. Einsatzgruppe V was attached to the 3th Army. Each Einsatzgruppe was subdivided into Einsatzkommandos of 100 men.

  8. Panzer Division

    In the early years of the Second World War the organization of the Panzer Divisions varied greatly, often according to a given unit’s seniority. In 1939-09 there were three different basic organizations for the five existing Panzer Divisions, while in 1940-05 ten divisions shared five different organizations. Generally, a lack of weapons, vehicles (tanks in particular) and equipment precluded the creation of units with the same organization and strength, thus preventing uniformity.

  9. Bund Deutscher Mädel-Werk Glaube und Schönheit

    • Union for Believe and Beauty
    • BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit

    Founded in 1937

    In 1937, Baldur von Schirach created the Bund Deutscher Mädel-Werk Glaube und Schönheit, offered a voluntary association for young women aged seventeen to twenty-one. BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit was an extension of the Bund Deutscher Mädel in der Hitler-Jugend.

  10. Belgian Government-in-Exile

    Founded in 1940-10

    The Belgian Government-in-Exile fled initially to France, hoping to continue the military struggle against the Germans. The French collapse in 1940-06 initially caused the ministers to lose heart and to seek to return to Belgium. When this, however, proved not possible, Hubert Pierlot and three other senior ministers traveled to London, where in 1940-10 they established a Government-in-Exile formally committed to the Allied cause.

  11. Tarbut

    • Culture

    Tarbut was a zionist educational organization that ran schools with Hebrew as the language of instruction. Bible literature and contemporary Hebrew literature were also taught in the schools, as well as Polish, the pure sciences, and technical training subjects. Tarbut had high standards of teaching.

  12. Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej

    • Provisional Government of National Unity

    In early 1946, the Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej established the Glówna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce to investigate crimes committed against Polish citizens.

  13. Żydowski Związek Wojskowy

    • Jewish Military Union
    • ŻZW

    Founded in 1939-10

    Żydowski Związek Wojskowy was set up in 1939-10 by officers and noncommissioned officers in the Polish army of Jewish background. ŻZW worked with the Security Corps and numbered about 250 people. Units of the ŻZW took part in the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.

  14. Brannik

    • Defender

    Brannik was a Bulgarian youth organization, created to be nationalist, royalist, non-political, and a loyal supporter of the regime of King Boris.

  15. Reseau Marcel

    • Abadi network

    1943/1944

    The Marcel network was a rescue mission operating in France, Nice, that between 1943 and 1944 saved 527 Jewish children ranging in age from newborns to teenagers. The network was organized by Moussa Abadi, a Syrian Jew from Damascus, who had been studying in France since 1928, and his French Jewish girlfriend, Odette Rosenstock.

  16. Swiss Bank Corporation

    Swiss Bank Corporation made a timely decision, before the outbreak of the Second World War, to open a branch in New York, the new financial metropolis of the Western World. The New York agency was able to commence business six weeks after the war began. In Switzerland, the bank had made all the necessary preparations in the event that war should break out. As in the First World War, in the autumn of 1939 it was no longer able to pursue its regular banking activities and was called upon to assist the national defense and aid in ensuring supplies.

  17. Conseil Représentatif des Juifs de France

    • Representative Council of the Jews of France

    Founded in 1944

    In the spring of 1944, the Comité Général de Défense des Juives joined with native-born Jews (represented by the Consistory) to form the Conseil Représentatif des Juifs de 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.

  18. Wehrmachtführungsstab

    • WFSt

    Founded in 1940-08-07

    The Wehrmachtführungsamt was renamed the Wehrmachtführungsstab on 1940-08-07.

  19. Partidul Evreesc

  20. Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands

    • Communist Party of Germany
    • KPD

    1919-01-01/present

    The Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands was established as a independently organization during a party conference on 1918-12-30 till 1919-01-01.