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  1. Judiska församlingen i Stockholm

    • Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Mosaiska församlingen i Stockholm

    Judiska församlingen i Stockholm leder sitt ursprung till sigillgravören och köpmannen Aaron Isaac, som 1774 kom från Mecklenburg till Stockholm och 1775 fick Gustav III:s tillstånd, ett så kallat skyddsbrev, att med sin familj bosätta sig här. Snart därpå anlände släktingar och vänner och därmed var Stockholms judiska församling grundad. Riksdagen beslöt 1779 att utvidga religionsfriheten. Reglerna för judarnas offentliga ställning i Sverige fanns i det av Kommerskollegium 1782 utfärdade ”judereglementet”, som i sina huvuddelar blev gällande till 1838. Genom en kungl. förordning 1838 upphä...

  2. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

    • UNRRA

    1943/1945 - 1947

    United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency, largely dominated by the United States but representing 44 nations. It was founded in 1943 but its main activity started after WWII in 1945. UNRRA has an aim to relief the victims of war by donating them food, fuel, medical care, shelter, clothing and other essential necessities. UNRRA cooperated with many charitable organizations and later in 1948 it was replaced by Marshall plan.

  3. Roosevelt Franklin Delano

    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
    • ルーズヴェルト, フランクリン・D
    • Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, 1882-1945
    • Luosifu, 1882-1945
    • Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1882-1945
    • ...

    30/01/1882

    02/04/1945

    32nd president of the United States (1933-1945)

  4. Moris C. Tropper

  5. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    • AJDC

    1914/present

    Founded in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to Jews around the world, particularly in eastern Europe. During the Nazi era, this umbrella agency for aid organizations in the United States was involved in emigration planning and relief work in Germany, until 1939 providing an increasing share of the budget for German Jewish organizations, such as the Reichsvertretung. The Joint efforts continued after the war began and extended beyond the Reich into countries occupied or controlled by Germany.

  6. Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants

    • Children’s Aid Society
    • OSE

    Founded in 1912

    Begun by physicians in Russia in 1912 as Obshchestvo Zdravookhraneniya Yevreyev (Society for the Protection of the Health of Jews), the organization expanded into many European countries with significant Jewish populations and focused increasingly on the welfare of children in its care. Relocating to Paris in 1933, the organization assumed the name Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants. OSE ran a number of orphanages in France for Jewish refugee children and, when the deportations of Jews in France began in 1942, organized an underground effort to smuggle many of the children from OSE orphanages to...

  7. Kindertransport

    The Kindertransport was a rescue mission of nearly 10 000 predominantly Jewish children from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland. It started nine months before the outbreak of the Second World War. The children were taken to the United Kingdom.

  8. Mordehai (Marcus) Ehrenpreis

    • מרדכי ארנפרייס

    Rabby Dr. Mordehai (Marcus) Ehrenpreis - Chief Rabby of Bulgaria 1900-1913.

  9. Jewish Board of Deputies

  10. Ludwig Tietz

    • לודביג טיץ

    Physician & public activist

  11. Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürgers Jüdischen Glaubens

    • Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Belief
    • CV

    1893/1938

    The Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürgers Jüdischen Glaubens was dedicated to protecting the civil and social rights of Jews in Germany, while at the same time, cultivating their German identity. The Centralverein, active from 1893/1938, was originally established in response to the rise of political anti-Semitism. Part of the union’s platform was to view Jews as a religious group. When the Nazi party rose to national power in 1933, the union opened a legal office to fight for Jewish rights, and initiated an information campaign, which at first tried to calm German Jews. After the anti-Jewi...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden

    • Aid Association of German Jews

    1901/1939

    German Jewish organization established in 1901 mainly to help Jewish communities in Eastern Europe that had fallen victim to pogroms and wars. It supported the creation of Jewish education and social welfare institutions in Eastern Europe, as well. After the First World War the association also helped Jews emigrate from eastern Europe through Germany to locations abroad. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the association began to provide assistance for German Jews who wanted to leave Germany for countries other than Palestine (those immigrating to Palestine were served by the Jewish Agency...

  15. Norbert Masur

    Swedish representative and a member of the executive of the World Jewish Congress, aided in the rescue of Jews during World War II

  16. Hillel Storch

  17. Bernadotte Folke

    02/01/1895

    17/09/1948

    Swedish official. Worked with the Red Cross in arranging POW exchanges. Vice president of the Swedish Red Cross. Saved thousands of POWs and concentration camp inmates. "During the last months of the war he was approached by Kaltenbrunner and Schellenberg on Himmler's behalf to feel out the Western allies on making some deal to mollify their unconditional surrender policy. Assassinated in Jerusalem by the Stern Gang.

  19. Bibelforscher

    • Jehovah's Witnesses

    1870s/present

    Founded in the United States in the 1870s, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization sent missionaries to Germany to seek converts in the 1890s. By the early 1930s, only 20,000 (of a total population of 65 million) Germans were Jehovah's Witnesses, usually known at the time as "International Bible Students". Even before 1933, despite their small numbers, door-to-door preaching and the identification of Jehovah's Witnesses as heretics by the mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches made them few friends. Individual German states and local authorities periodically sought to limit the group's pr...

  20. International Committee of the Red Cross

    • CICR - Comite International de la Croix-Rouge
    • CICR
    • Red Cross

    1863/present

    The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded in 1863 as a humanitarian organization to moderate between belligerents and to monitor application of humanitarian international law. This body was charged to oversee humane conditions in POW camps among civilian internees during wartime, but gained limited access to concentration camps. With the exception of two visits to Dutch inmates interned at Buchenwald in 1940, and the inspection of Theresienstadt at the behest of the Danish government (where they were fooled in by the SS in 1944), the Red Cross was never able to enter concentr...