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Displaying items 81 to 100 of 2,688
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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Corporate Body

  1. Armée Secrète

    • Secret Army
    • AS

    Founded in 1942-10

  3. Armia Krajowa

    • Heimatarmee
    • AK

    1942-02-14/1945-01-20

    Subordinated to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland) and the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) formed on 1942-02-14 the Armia Krajowa. During the war it became an umbrella organization of resistance groups. Attacks were limited to confiscating supplies, burning food-quota documents, and, perhaps, crippling machinery. This modus operandi denoted the desire of the independentists to avoid German reprisals against the people and the destruction of property which, after all, was Polish and would be used after the ...

  4. Armia Ludowa

    • People’s Army
    • AL

    Founded in 1944-01-01

    Armia Ludowa was a Polish underground partisan organization, which was active in the generalgouvernement and areas of Poland annexed to the Reich. It was created in 1944-01-01 by the Polska Partia Robotnicza (Polish Workers’ Party). Michał Rola-Żymierski had the command of the Armia Ludowa. In terms of the decree establishing the AL, all Polish armed forces, both in Poland and abroad, were to be subordinated to the authority of Rola-Żymierski. AL drew its inspiration from the Polish Communist Party, and about 5.000 Soviet nationals fought in its ranks. The estimate is that the total of part...

  5. Armia Polska w ZSRR, 1941-1942

    • Anders' Army

  6. Artillerie Regiment

    In the early war years 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. The basic organization for a 1939 Panzer Division included i.a. a two-battalion Artillerie Regiment.

  7. Asile Lamarck

  8. Ašmenos kalėjimas

    • Ašmena Prison

    Ašmenos prison was established on 1 April 1942. The prison was under the authority of the Prison Management Department. Ašmenos prison was for political and criminal prisoners but there were imprisoned Jews also.

  9. Association Consistoriale Israelite de Paris

    • Paris Israelite Consistorial Association
    • ACIP

    Official organ of the Jewish community. The Association Consistoriale Israelite de Paris was a long-standing organization run by French Israelites: under its authority were not only the synagogues, but also a Welfare Committee located on Rue Rodier. The mass exodus from Paris under the German onslaught in 1940-05 and 1940-06 had left the association disorganized, and it was only in the fall of the same year that it had resumed its activities.

  11. Association des Juifs en Belgique

    • Association of Jews Belgium
    • AJB

    1940-11-25/1944-08

    The Association des Juifs en Belgique was submissive to the Germans, but less active in the deportation of Jews than other Judenrate, for example, Amsterdam. It was established on 1941-11-25. The AJB’s orders were often ignored by the Jewish community. The Jewish underground often burned lists of Jews to be deported, thereby undermining the AJB’s authority. The AJB did provide educational and social activities during the winter of 1941 through the fall of 1944. Almost 35,000 of Belgium’s Jewish population of 66,000 were deported to labor and concentration camps and at least 30,000 perished ...

  12. Association des Rabbins de Français

    • ARF

    After the French revolution in 1789, the Jewish society in France was disintegrated. The establishment of the Association des Rabbins de Français played a significant role in the creation of a common consciousness of all Jews in France.

  15. Auschwitz - Orchestra

    • תזמורת אושוויץ

  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. Aussenpolitisches Amt der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

    • Aussenpolitisches Amt
    • APA

    Founded in 1934

    Hitler actively encouraged the creation of party agencies which claimed expertise in certain fields of foreign policy. The Aussenpolitisches Amt der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei was established to institutionalize Alfred Rosenberg's aspirations to become the guru of Nazi foreign policy. This body also put pressure on German allies to carry out the Final Solution. For example, its diplomats exhorted Benito Mussolini, unsuccessfully, to deport Jews under Italian jurisdiction.

  18. Australian soldiers

    • חיילים אוסטרלים

  19. Austrian Army

    • צבא אוסטרי

  20. Austrian government

    • Österreichische Regierung
    • ממשלת אוסטריה
    • Government of Austria