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  1. Lithuanian police

    • משטרה ליטאית

  2. Unicenea Evreilor Romani

    • Union of Romanian Jews
    • UER

    Uniunea Evreilor Romani was Romania’s oldest and most important Jewish organization. In 1938 Romania’s King Carol II dissolved all of his country’s political organizations, including the Uniunea Evreilor Romani. Until that time, the UER worked at defending Jewish interests: instituted and maintained civil rights for Jews; fought official and unofficial anti-Semitism; and encouraged the incorporation of Jews into Romanian life. After the liberation, the UER concentrated on defending the human rights of Romanian Jews. Dr. Wilhelm Filderman was the respected leader of the Unicenea Evreilor Rom...

  3. Scotish Polish Society

    From 1942 to 1945

  5. Curierul Israelit

    From 25/12/1906 to 25/03/1945

    Weekly Romanian newspaper founded in Bucharest on 25 December 1906 by I. Negureanu and M. Schweig. Curierul Israelit (The Israelite Courier) was issued with frequent interruptions until 25 March 1945; Schweig eventually appeared on its masthead as owner and director. The publication carried the subtitle “Organ septemânal pentru apărarea intereselor evreieşti” (Weekly Organ for the Defense of Jewish Interests); in 1944 this slogan was altered to “Organ al Uniunii Evreilor Români” (Organ of the Union of Romanian Jews). Curierul Israelit tried to expose antisemitism and, in the platform publis...

  6. State Department of the US

    • משרד החוץ - ארצות הברית

  7. Geto-tsaytung

    • געטא צייטונג

    First issue published on 07/03/1941

    Official newspaper of the Lodz Ghetto

  8. Austrian government

    • Österreichische Regierung
    • ממשלת אוסטריה
    • Government of Austria

  9. Bulgarian army

    • צבא בולגרי

  10. Polish Army

    • Armia Polska
    • צבא פולני

  11. Mouvement National Hebreu

    • Hebrew National Movement in France
    • MNH

  12. Hanoar Hatzioni

    • סתדרות חלוצית עולמית הנוער הציוני
    • Hanoar hacyjoni
    • The Zionist Youth
    • הנוער הציוני

    Hanoar hacyjoni was a Jewish Scouts organization.

  13. Hechalutz

    • החלוץ
    • HeHalutz

    Founded in 1905

    Association of Jewish youth whose aim was to train its members to settle on the land in Israel. The original meaning of the Hebrew word is the vanguard that leads the host on its advanceץ The idea of Hechalutz was conceived during the crisis that overtook Russian Jewry in the aftermath of the 1881 pogroms. This awakening was influenced indirectly by the Russian revolutionary movement, which called upon the intelligentsia to "go out to the people." Two of the societies that were formed at this time – *Bilu, which called for settlement in Ereẓ Israel, and *Am Olam, which advocated settlement ...

  14. Jewish National Fund

    • קרן קימת לישראל
    • Keren Kayemet LeYisrael
    • Keren Kayemet LeIsrael
    • KKL
    • JNF

    From 1901 until present

    From its inception, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) - called Keren Kayemet L'Israel in Hebrew - was charged with the task of fundraising in Jewish communities for the purpose of purchasing land in Eretz Yisrael to create a homeland for the Jewish people. JNF's work can be divided into three phases. During its first 50 years, JNF was charged with the task of purchasing the land. Over the next 50 years, JNF directed its efforts to developing the land, planting over 220 million trees, building infrastructure for housing, parks and recreation areas, and helping to settle immigrants from across t...

  15. Ichud - World Alliance of Hebrew Socialist Workers

    • איחוד - ברית הפועלים הסוציאליסטית העולמית
    • איחוד
    • Ichud

  16. Nathan Schwalb

    Nathan Schwalb was born in Stanislawow, Poland (today Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine) in 1908. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and was member of Kibbutz Hulda. He spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Red Cross, mainly to Poland, and transferring funds via messengers whom he drafted for this purpose. Schwalb attempted to keep in touch with Hechalutz ...

  17. Lichtheim Richard

    • Lichtheim, Richard, 1885-1963
    • Likhṭhaim, Rikhard 1885-1963
    • ליכטהיים, ריכארד, 1885-1963
    • Lichtheim, Richard
    • Lichthaim, Richard.
    • ...

    16/02/1885

    29/04/1963

    Zionist. One of the founders of Jüdische Staatspartei (1933)

  18. League of Nations

    1919/1946

    The League of Nations was an international peacekeeping organization set up as part of the Versailles Treaty in 1919, with headquarters in Geneva. Appeals by German Jews regarding human rights in the Reich were not adjudicated. Its High Commission for Refugees was ineffectual, leading James Grover McDonald to resign. Insincerity of the great powers lead to the League’s impotency. The High Commissioner for Refugees revealed, as early as 1939, the fate of Jewry in various countries and the persecution and gross violations of human rights. Although the League existed until 1946, it was replace...

  19. Rumkowski Khayim Mordkhe

    • Rumkowski, Mordechaj Chaim

    27/02/1887

    28/08/1944

    Jewish leader and head of the Lodz ghetto during the war

  20. Max Finkelstein