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  1. Histadrut Hadassah

    • הסתדרות הדסה
    • הדסה
    • Hadassah

    1912 -

    American Jewish volunteer women's organization founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold,

  2. Mapai - Mifleget Poalei Eretz Israel

    • מפא"י - מפלגת פועלי ארץ ישראל
    • מפא"י
    • Mapai

    Socialist zionist political party

  3. David Ben-Gurion

    • דוד בן-גוריון

    Chairman of the Jewish Agency, and the First Prime Minister of the State of Israel

  5. Adolf Abraham Berman

    • אדולף אברהם ברמן
    • Bermann, Adolf Abraham

    17/10/1906

    03/02/1978

    Psychologist, Zionist activist in the Warsaw ghetto underground and one of the leaders of ZEGOTA. Witness in Eichmann trial.

  6. Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce

    • Political representation of Jews in Poland
    • CKŻP

    1944-11/1950-10-29

    The most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust, the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, attended to the needs of Jews from fall 1944 until 1950. It sponsored a variety of programs, providing food, shelter, education, medical assistance, cultural activities, and employment services and vocational training. The CKŻP also supervised the repatriation of Jews from the Soviet Union and assisted with legal emigration. The CKŻP was supported financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In 1950-10-29 CKŻP was connected with Żydowskie Towarzystwo Ku...

  7. ŻEGOTA

    • Council for Aid to Jews

    1942-12/1945-01

    ŻEGOTA is a Polish name for the underground Rada Pomocy Żydom. ŻEGOTA was initiated by writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and it included both Jews and non-Jews from many different political movements. Despite their differences, they were motivated to fight the injustices perpetrated by the Nazis. By the summer of 1944, ŻEGOTA was helping 4,000 Jews. However, they were unable to provide aid for more people due to a chronic shortage of funding. ŻEGOTA furnished many Jews with false identification papers, money, and safe hiding places. Despite the death penalty imposed on people who hid Jews, ŻEGO...

  8. Henrietta Szold

    • הנרייטה סולד

    Zionist activist in the United States and in the Mandate of Palestine

  9. Histadrut Ha'ovdim b'Eretz Israel

    • הסתדות העובדים בארץ ישראל

    Confederation of Trade Unions in the former mandate of Palestine and actual State of Israel.

  10. Georg Landauer

    • גיאורג לנדאואר

    Zionist politician

  11. Hapoel Hatzair

    • הפועל הצעיר

    Founded in 1905

    The non-Marxist Hapoel Hayzair, which means 'the young worker', was organized in 1905. The Zeirei Zion (Zionist Youth), and Hapoel Hayzair joined forces at the Eleventh Zionist Congress, held in Vienna in 1913.

  12. Majer Balaban

    • מאיר בלבן

    Historian of the Polish Jewry.

  13. Harro Thomsen

    Gestapo officer in Poland.

  14. Erich Roth

    He was in charge of the office groups IV B1 and IV B2 (church affairs) in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.

  15. Friedrich Brodnitz

    • פרידריך ברודניץ

    Activist and member of serveral German Jewish and Zionist organizations during the Nazi rule.

  16. Zentralausschuss der Deutschen Juden für Hilfe und Aufbau

    • Central Committee of German Jew for Help and Reconstruction

    1933-04/1938

    The Zentralausschuss der Deutschen Juden für Hilfe und Aufbau coordinated economic and social assistance for German Jews from 1933/1938. The committee was created in 1933-04, just three months after Hitler rose to national power, as a collaboration of various German Jewish communal, political, and social-welfare organizations. Its goal was to take care of those Jews who had lost their jobs or businesses as a result of the Nazi’s anti-Jewish legislation. In addition, Jewish welfare organizations outside of Germany had requested the creation of such a committee to deal with all the monies bei...

  17. Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden

    • Jewish council

    1933-09/1939-07-04

    The Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden was a body representing German Jews vis-à-vis the German government. The Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden started as early as 1933-09, and was headed by Reform Rabbi Leo Baeck and the Chief Executive Officer Dr. Otto Hirsch. The Reichsvertretung centralized the political aspects of the Jewish community in Germany, trying to enter open debate and dignify controversy with the Nazi administration. Its constituent arms handled most aspects of Jewish life in the Reich – emigration, welfare-relief, education, vocational training, and cultural activitie...

  18. Joachim Deumling

    A senior officer of the Gestapo and RSHA

  19. Leonardo Conti

    • ליאונרדו קונטי
    • Леонардо Конти

    Reich Health Leader (Reichsgesundheitsführer) in Nazi Germany. To this leadership are attributed killings of a large number of German citizens in Euthanasia programs.

  20. Ernst Damzog

    • Ernst Paul Damzog

    Officer at the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Posen