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  1. Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce

    • TSKŻ

    Founded in 1950

    Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce is the largest Jewish organization in the country. The main objectives of the association is the integration of the Jewish community, the activities in the area of Jewish culture and Yiddish language and to build good Polish-Jewish relations.

  2. Druzhyny Ukraninsskyh Natsionalistiv

    Roland Battalion had been formed in Austria. Together with Nachtigall, a volunteer Bulgarian battalion, the Roland Battalion is also known to the Ukrainians as Druzhyny Ukraninsskyh Natsionalistiv.

  4. General Zionists

    • Zionist Organization in Poland

    Founded in 1916

    The General Zionists, founded in 1916 under the umbrella of the World Zionist Organization, was aiming to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. In Poland, Zionists strove for national and cultural autonomy, protected Jewish economic rights and interests, strengthened national identity, and organized emigration to Palestine. General Zionists were divided into three factions: Et Liwnot (A time to build), the moderate group; Al Hamishmar (On guard), which had a leftist social program; and the New Zionist Organization (Revisionists), the radical right wing.

  5. Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc

    • Jewish Democratic Committee
    • CDE

    Founded in 1945

    The Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc was founded in 1945 by the communists in an effort to exercise a better control over the Jewish community.

  6. Mouvement National Contre le Racisme

    • National Movement against Racism
    • MNCR

    Founded in 1940

    In the spring of 1940 the Communists created Mouvement National Contre le Racisme, though officially non-partisan, was in fact under the absolute control of the Jewish section of the Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée. It started two papers, J'accuse (in the occupied zones) and Fraternité (in the southern zone). Through them the 'French people' expressed their solidarity with the persecuted Jews.

  7. Polnischer Baudienst im Generalgouvernement

    • Polska Sluzba Budowlana
    • Baudienst

    Founded in 1940-12

    The Polnischer Baudienst im Generalgouvernement was formed on 1940-12-01. The Baudienst was set up to provide the Third Reich with labour force.

  8. Jüdische Nachrichten

    • Jewish News
    • JUNA

    Founded in 1936

    Jüdische Nachrichten was founded by the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG), Zürich, as its press office in 1936, with the objectives not only to confront Nazism but also to address growing Anti-semitism in Switzerland. To this end it produced news bulletins in German and French and distributed them to numerous editorial offices throughout Switzerland. Under the leadership of Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz JUNA amassed a large archive of documentation concerning the Holocaust and the fate of Jewish refugees and other related subjects.

  9. Gordonia

    Gordonia was a Zionist youth organization associated with Poale Zion-Right.

  10. Liga Apararii Nationale Crestine

    • National Christian Defense League
    • LANC

    Founded in 1923

    Romania's Liga Apararii Nationale Crestine was founded by A.C. Cuza in 1923 and pursued a clearly anti-Semitic agenda that contributed significantly to the worsening of Jewish-Romanian relation. LANC opposed Romanian citizenship or naturalization for Jews. It also agitated against critical journalists and leftist political organizations. After Hitler gained power in 1933, LANC began operating more closely with Romanian German Nazis.

  11. Joodse Coördinatie Commissie

    • Jewish Co-ordination Committee
    • JCC

    1940-12/1941-10

    In 1940-12 the various Jewish congregations and other Jewish bodies founded a steering committee, the Joodse Coördinatie Commissie, an umbrella network of Jewish organizations. The JCC was formed to coordinate the Jewish community throughout the difficulties. Chairman of the JCC was L.E. Visser, Esq. The commission offered legal and tax-related advice, organized cultural activities and provided financial assistance as needed. The JCC refused to deal directly with the Nazis, arguing that such contact should be mediated by the Dutch government. The Joodse Raad (Jewish Council), which did main...

  12. Biuro Informacji i Propagandy Komendy Głównej Związku Walki Zbrojnej – Armii Krajowej

    • The Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Home Army
    • BIP KG ZWZ – AK

    Biuro Informacji i Propagandy Komendy Głównej Związki Walki Zbrojnej – Armii Krajowej played an important role in raising morale and influencing attitudes among the soldiers of the underground movement as well as those of the Polish community. Through the introduction of propaganda the soldiers of the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) could be integrated into a single underground army.

  13. Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Wien

    • Gestapo Wien

    The Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo, was one of the most unfamous police organisations in the 1930s and 1940s. The Gestapo was widely represented, for example with an office in Wien.

  14. Belorusskii Shtab Partizanskogo Dvizheniya

    • Belarussian Headquarters for the Partisan Movement
    • BShPD

    Belorusskii Shtab Partizanskogo Dvizheniya was a partisan movement.

  15. Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza

    • Polish United Workers' Party
    • PZPR

    1948/1990

    Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza was a polish communistic party which was formed as a result of connections between Polska Partia Robotnicza (Polish Workers’ Party) and Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party). The chiefs of party were in sequence: B. Bierut, E. Ochab, W. Gomułka, E. Gierek, S. Kania, W. Jaruzelski, M.F. Rakowski.

  16. Vermögensverkehrsstelle Wien

    • Property Registration Office in Vienna

    Founded in 1938-05-18

    On the basis of a decree of 1938-04-26 enforced in 1938-06, persons considered 'Jewish' under the racist Nuremberg Laws were required to register their property over RM 5,000 at the Vermögensverkehrsstelle, an authority created on 1938-05-18. The asset registrations formed the basis of later confiscations. The Vermögensverkehrsstelle had also an office in Vienna.

  17. Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung von NS-Verbrechen Ludwigsburg

    • Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen Ludwigsburg

    Concerned about the government’s ability to bring charges against suspected war criminal, the Bundesrepublik Deutschland created the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung von NS-Verbrechen Ludwigsburg. The Zentrale Stelle’s staff of lawyers and judges would investigate Nazi-era crimes and then turn its material over to individual German states for prosecution. The only crimes it could investigate were those that committed outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and only those that could be prosecuted under German law. It could not deal with war crimes per se, though in...

  18. Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt

    • National Socialist People's Welfare
    • NSV

    Founded in 1932-04

    Created in 1932-04 as an internal welfare agency for party members, the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt soon after the Nazi accession to power began to co-ordinate and absorb existing voluntary welfare institutions, and eventually came to dominate the entire field of welfare work in Nazi Germany.

  19. Narodowe Siły Zbrojne

    • National Armed Force
    • NSZ

    Founded in 1942

    Narodowe Siły Zbrojne was a right-wing, nationalist Polish resistance group that hated Jews, communists, and liberals. They refused to recognize the authority of the Armia Krajowa and operated independently. During the war, they murdered hundreds of Jewish partisans and others seeking asylum. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne terrorized and killed Jewish survivors after the war.

  20. Consiliul Evreesc

    • Jewish Council

    The Consiliul Evreesc focused its struggle on the repatriation of the deportees and on the release of some of them to go to Palestine. Also in 1943-04, the council, with the help of the Centrala Evreilor, obtained Ion Victor Antonescu's permission for the return to Romania of 5,000 orphans and other Jews. The 5,000 were not repatriated, owing to German opposition, obstructions put in the way by the governor of Transnistria, and the intervention of the mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. Wilhelm Filderman was expelled to Transnistria in 1943-05, and upon his return to Romania in Augus...