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  1. Quakers

    The Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance met with various non-Jewish agencies working in the camps, such as Comité inter-mouvements aupres des evacues (CIMADE), the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), the Quakers, various national branches of the Red Cross, the Secours Suisse, the Service social d’aide aux emigrants (SSAE), the Unitarian Service Committee, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others to form the Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps.

  2. Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland

    • Central Council of Jews in Germany

    1950-07-19/present

    The foundation of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, along with the Constituent Assembly, took place in Frankfurt (Main) on 1950-07-19. The delegates were sent by Jewish communities that had already been established in the four occupied zones of Germany, which had been placed under American, British, French and Soviet administration. At the time of foundation there were still some 15,000 Jews living in Germany. A Directorate of four people took charge of the affairs of this umbrella organization. 15 representatives of the communities formed a board known as the Council. Frankfurt beca...

  3. Organizacja Małego Sabotażu „Wawer”

    1940/1944

    Organizacja Małego Sabotażu „Wawer” was an underground organization which had about 500 participants mainly from Szare Szeregi. A. Kamiński was chief of Wawer. Their task was to make a propaganda action.

  4. Légion Tricolore

    • LT

    Founded in 1942-07

    Because of its fear that Doriot and the Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme would become too powerful, Vichy took it over in 1942-07, renaming it the Légion Tricolore. The military successes of the Allied landings in North Africa led to the Légion Tricolore being reconverted from an official to a political body, again being named Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme.

  5. Ajutorul Legionar

    • Legionnaire Assistance

    The Ajutorul Legionar, a Legionnaire welfare bureau, distributed generous humanitarian assistance to movement members and ordinary Romanians. The movement’s efforts to improve the living conditions of the Romanians brought it great popularity.

  6. Organisation Sioniste de France

    • Zionist Organization of France
    • OSF

    Founded in 1942-01-23

    The Organisation Sioniste de France financed and encouraged the so-called hakhshara (agricultural preparation) work, which meant setting up agricultural worksites, but in view of preparing future emigrants to Palestine.

  7. Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Polyn un Rusland

    • Jewish Bund

    The Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Polyn un Rusland became involved in labor organization and Jewish political activity. This and other developments emboldened many Jews to become more aggressive in their response to the violence and discrimination.

  8. Wydział walki z lichwą żywnościową

    Abolished in 1919-01-11

    Józef Piłsudski transformed the Wydział walki z lichwą żywnościową to Urząd do Walki z Lichwą i Spekulacją in 1919-01-11.

  9. Kovpak Partisan Group

    When the Great Patriotic War began, Sidor Artiomovich Kovpak was 54 years old. Due to his administrative skills and tenacity for getting things done, he organized a partisan movement in Ukraine named Kovpak Partisan Group. This group had over 1,500 personnel.

  11. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Kattowitz

    • SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz

    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 Kattowitz.

  12. Abwehr

    • Self-defense

    1933/1944-02-18

    Abwehr was a German intelligence agency. Formed in 1933, it was attached to the foreign and counterintelligence department of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Its head, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, was an opponent of the Nazi regime. After 1938, Abwehr became the center of a conspiracy against the Hitler government. On 1944-02-18, the Abwehr was dissolved into the SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt.

  13. Thule-Gesellschaft

    • Thule Society

    Founded in 1917

    The Thule-Gesellschaft was an occult society that combined occult racial philosophy with a belief in militant action. The Thule-Gesellschaft functioned outwardly as a ‘German Studies’ group. Despite its outer appearance, it was actively involved in the counter-revolutionary forces against the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which the Thule felt was dominated by Jews.

  14. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Wien

    • SD Leitabschnitt Wien

    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 Wien.

  15. SS-Verfügungstruppe

    The SS-Hauptamt was founded in 1935, it was the Supreme Command of the Allgemeine SS, SS-Verfügungstruppe and SS-Totenkopfverbände.

  16. Secours Suisse

    The Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance met with various non-Jewish agencies working in the camps, such as Comité inter-mouvements aupres des evacues (CIMADE), the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), the Quakers, various national branches of the Red Cross, the Secours Suisse, the Service social d’aide aux emigrants (SSAE), the Unitarian Service Committee, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others to form the Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps.

  17. Comité Français de la Libération Nationale

    • CFLN

    1943/1944

    Comité Français de la Libération Nationale was a central political authority which supported France combattante during the Second World War. It was created in Algeria, chief of this organization was Charles de Gaulle.

  18. NSDAP Hauptamt Wissenschaft

    Founded in 1934-01-24

    The NSDAP Hauptamt Wissenschaft was part of Beauftragten des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP, which was founded in 1934.

  19. Polskie Państwo Podziemne

    • Polish Underground State

    1939/1945

    Polskie Państwo Podziemne was the general conspiracy institution and state body in occupied Poland. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj was part of Polskie Państwo Podziemne.