Authorities

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  1. Mouvements Unis de Résistance

    • United Resistance Movements
    • MUR

    Founded in 1943-01

    At the beginning of 1943, with the war at a turning point and Vichy repression escalating, the resistance became more coordinated. Three networks, Combat, Libération, and Franc-Tireur et Partisans, joined together to form the Mouvements Unis de Résistance in 1943-01.

  2. Deutsches Jungvolk

    • Young People
    • DJ

    Boys between 10 and 14 years old were indoctrinated into Nazi doctrine and anti-Semitism through the Deutsches Jungvolk, a youth organization.

  3. Armée Belge des Partisans

    • Belgian Partisans Army

    Resistance movement.

  4. Unitarian Service Committee

    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.

  5. Legiunea Arhanghelului Mihail

    • League of the Archangel Michael

    One source of continued instability in Romania was Corneliu Zelea Codreanu’s pro-Nazi Legiunea Arhanghelului Mihail and its paramilitary wing, the Garda de Fier (Iron Guard). The Legionaires, as they were commonly known, operated much like the German Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung in the 1920s and early 1930s. After the government banned it and other paramilitary groups in 1933, Codreanu transformed the league into a viable political party that garnered almost 16 percent of the popular vote in 1937 elections as part of the rightist coalition with Totul Pentru Tara (Everything for the Fatherlan...

  6. Polizeiregiment

  7. Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden

    • Central Welfare Agency for German Jews
    • ZWST

    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 ...

  8. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Dresden

    • SD Leitabschnitt Dresden

    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.

  9. Dror

    • Freedom

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

  10. Einsatzkommando 1a

    • EK 1a

    Founded in 1942

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

  11. B’nai B’rith

    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...

  12. Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund

    • National Socialist Teachers League
    • NSLB

    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.

  13. Magyarországi Autonóm Orthodox Izraelita Hitfelekezet Köponti Irodája

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

    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.

  14. Persoonsbewijs Centrale

    • Personal Identification Card Centre
    • PBC

    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.

  15. Allgemeines Heeresamt

    • General Army Office
    • AHA

    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.

  16. Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit

    • IDO

    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...

  17. Comité des Oeuvres Socials des Organizations de Résistance

    • Social Aid Committee for Resistance Organizations
    • COSOR

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

  18. 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.

  19. Einsatzgruppe L

    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.

  20. Hilfsverein für jüdische Flüchtlinge im Ausland

    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.