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• Federation of Jewish Societies of France
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Founded in 1913

As early as 1913 the Federation des Sociétés Juives de France was founded in Paris, grouping twenty-two other societies and asserting that ‘the Jewish immigrant is a source of activity and precious good will’ and should participate in management of communal works.

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After the Second World War, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann fled from Austria and made his way to Argentina where he lived under the name Ricardo Klement. In 1960-05, Israeli Security Service agents seized Eichmann in Argentina and took him to Jerusalem for trial in an Israeli court. Eichmann testified from a bulletproof glass booth. The Eichmann trial aroused international interest, bringing Nazi atrocities to the forefront of world news. The charges against Eichmann were numerous. After the Wannsee Conference (1942-01), Eichmann coordinated deportations of Jews from Germany and elsewhere...

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1897-08/present

The Zionist Organization was founded at the initiative of Theodore Herzl at the First Zionist Congress which took place in august 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. When it was founded, the goals of the Zionist movement were stated in a resolution that came of that Congress and came to be known as the Basel Program. Zionism aims at establishing for the Jewish people a legally assured home in Eretz Yisrael.

• Association of Jews Belgium
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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 ...

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• 1910
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Braune joined the SD in 1935 and was Kommandeur of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C from 2nd October 1941 until 21st March 1942.

• Foreign Worker Unit
• GTE

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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.

• Central Council of Jews in Germany

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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...

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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.

• LT

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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.

• Legionnaire Assistance

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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.

• Zionist Organization of France
• OSF

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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.

• Jewish Bund

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz

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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.

• Self-defense

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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.

• Thule Society

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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.

• SD Leitabschnitt Wien

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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.