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• Central Welfare Agency for German Jews
• ZWST

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1917/1939

The Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden was founded in 1917 to co-ordinate the diverse social institutions set up by the Jewish community and to care for Jewish veterans of the war or the widows and orphans they left behind. Under the Nazis the task of the Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden was to look after Jews leaving the country and to provide any social care or emergency support which might offer succor or assistance to Jews during that period. In 1939 it was closed down by the authorities and its staff were deported to the camps. After the war the ZWST was revived by ...

• SD Leitabschnitt Dresden

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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 Dresden.

• Freedom

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Dror is a youth organization which is associated with Poale Zion-Right.

• EK 1a

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Founded in 1942

Einsatzkommando 1a was a newly formed, respectively unmanned Kommando of Einsatzgruppe A.

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1843/present

In 1843, Henry Jones and 11 other German-Jewish immigrants gathered in Sinsheimer's Café on New York's Lower East Side to confront what Isaac Rosenbourg, one of B'nai B'rith's founders, called "the deplorable condition of Jews in this, our newly adopted country." Thus, B'nai B'rith (children of the covenant) was born. B'nai B'rith involvement in international affairs dates to the 1870s when anti-Semitism reached new heights in Romania. Through the influence of B'nai B'rith, the U.S. government established a consulate there, and a former B'nai B'rith president, Benjamin Peixotto, was appoint...

• National Socialist Teachers League
• NSLB

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1927/1943

The Nationalsozialistische Lehrerbund was established as a wing of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in 1927. After 1933, the Nazi regime purged the public school system of teachers deemed to be Jews or to be 'politically unreliable'. Most educators, however, remained in their posts and joined the Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund. 97% of all public school teachers, some 300,000 persons, had joined the Lehrerbund by 1936. In fact, teachers joined the Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund in greater numbers than any other profession.

• Central Bureau of the Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Community of Hungary
• MOAHI

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Founded in 1871

In 1871, 220 orthodox representatives from various communities voted to establish the Magyarországi Autonóm Orthodox Izraelita Hitfelekezet Köponti Irodája. MAOHI was guided by a national representative body of one hundred members - forty rabbis and sixty lay leaders.

• Personal Identification Card Centre
• PBC

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Founded in 1942

Jews, resistance fighter, people who refused to report for forced labor were at great risk if they carried their own personal identification cards. Dozens of groups forged documents. The largest organization was the Persoonsbewijs Centrale, which was established in 1942. Members of the group were involved in the attack on the Amsterdam Register of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. This attack was an attempt to destroy the personal details index of the Jews in Amsterdam.

• General Army Office
• AHA

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The Allgemeines Heeresamt was the secretariat of the Oberkommando des Heeres and various agencies of the Feldheer, including direct support for the commander of the Ersatzheer in Germany.

• IDO

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Founded in 1940-06-20

The Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit opened in German-occupied Kraków on 1940-06-20. The brainchild of Hans Frank, Governor General of the Generalgouvernement, the IDO was comprised of eleven sections: agriculture, art history, economics, forestry and woodworking, geology, history, landscaping and gardening, law, linguistics, prehistory, and Rassen- und Volkstumforschung (roughly “Racial and National Traditions Research” or IDO-SRV), whose three Referate (sections) also included one for Jewish studies. The Institute took over the offices in Kraków’s Jagiellonian University, much of whose pro...

• Social Aid Committee for Resistance Organizations
• COSOR

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The Comité des Oeuvres Sociales de la Résistance, supported by the French ministry, developed activities exclusively for resistance victims.

• Paris Israelite Consistorial Association
• ACIP

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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.

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Founded in 1941-06

In 1941-06, before the attack on the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppe K and L were active during the offensive in the Ardennen.

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The Hilfsverein für jüdische Flüchtlinge im Shanghai was founded by Recha Sternbuch and her husband, Isaac, in 1941, with the objective of assisting rabbinical students who had fled to the Far East. It soon expanded its activities to include the provision of passports to non-religious Jews from many European countries and changed its name to Hilfsverein für jüdische Flüchtlinge im Ausland.

• 1/II

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Einsatzkommando 1/II, Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe II, participated during the invasion of Poland in 1939-09. During the invasion of the Soviet Union the Einsatzgruppen were not labeled with the number I, II, III, IV or V but with the character A, B, C or D.

• ARF

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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.

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An infantery division consists out of several infantery regiments, and these regiments consist out of several battalions.

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1942/1943

Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe D.

• General Commission on Jewish Affairs
• CGQJ

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Founded in 1941-03-29

The establishment of a junior ministerial post for Jewish affairs was influenced by the problem of the ‘aryanization’ of Jewish business. The establishment of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives indicated that Vichy was treating the Jewish Question with all the seriousness with which the Germans appeared to endow the question; furthermore Vichy was committing itself to a constant control of the question. On 1943-05-28 the CGQJ formally handed its network of institution over to the Union Générale des Israélites de France.