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  1. Balgarska Narodna Banka

    • Bulgarian National Bank
    • BNB

    Founded in 1879-01-25

    The Bulgarian National Bank is established right after the restoration of the Bulgarian state, on 1879-01-25.

  2. Rockefeller Foundation

    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. The Rockefeller Foundation is a charity organization. Its central historical mission is "To promote the w...

  3. Communauté juive de Lausanne

    • Jewish Community of Lausanne
    • CIL

    Founded in 1848

    Communauté juive de Lausanne was founded informally in 1848 by four families.

  4. Palestina Amt

    • Palestine Certificate Office
    • Palamt

    Palestina Amt was a Zionist and a Palestine-based organization. This office was headed by Moshe Krausz, who was a member of Mizrachi, the religious Zionist Party, and a representative of Hashomer Hatzair, the extreme-left Zionist Group. Krausz distributed the valuable Palestine certificates, which enabled their bearers to enter Palestine.

  5. Jüdische Unterstützungsstelle für das GG

    • Jewish Aid Agency in the Generalgouvernement
    • JUS

    In the autumn of 1942, and later in 1943-03, there was an attempt to reactivate welfare activities under the name Jüdische Unterstützungsstelle für das GG with headquarters in Krakow under full German control, with Michal Weichert in charge.

  7. Staatspolizeistelle

  8. Polska Partia Robotnicza

    • Polish Workers’ Party
    • PPR

    1942-01-05/1948

    Polish communists were transferred from USSR to Poland to connect polish communistics parties. The Polska Partia Robotnicza was subordinated to soviet communist party and controlled by the Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich Dieł (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs). The leaders were: W. Gomulka, B. Bierut. It headed Gwardia Ludowa (Polish People’s Army), Armia Ludowa (People’s Army). When Red Army came to Poland, PPR let Sovietization of the country through terror. It merged with the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party) into Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (Poli...

  9. Grenzpolizeikommissariat

    • Unit of Border Police

  10. Student Christian Movements

    Comité Inter-Mouvements Aupres des Evacues was a protestant youth group created by the World Young Women Christian Association, the Young Men's Christian Association and the federation of Student Christian Movements in 1939-09.

  11. Einsatzkommando 11b

    • EK 11b

    1941/1943

    Einsatzkommando 11b was a mobile killing squad of Einsatzgruppe D.

  12. Ethniko Apelefterotiko Metopo

    • National Liberation Front

    Founded in 1945-04

    The procommunist Ethniko Apelefterotiko Metopo is formed in Greek Macedonia by local Slavs in 1945. In Skopje, the first issue of the Albanian-language newspaper Flake e vëllazërimit (Flame of Brotherhood) came out.

  13. Centralna Komisja Patronatów

    • CKP

  14. Union de la Jeunesse Juive

    • Union of Jewish Youth
    • UJJ

    Union de la Jeunesse Juive was a Jewish Communists' youth organization.

  15. Jewish Colonization Association

    • JCA

    Jewish Colonization Association, a Jewish migration association, was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society.

  16. Związek Walki Zbrojnej

    • Union for Armed Struggle
    • ZWZ

    In German controlled Poland the Polish underground in 1940 gradually became more tightly organized. General Sikorski in France took steps to bring all resistance forces in the homeland under the control of his government in exile. Since the beginning of the war, dozens of independent resistance groups had sprung up, mistrustful of any central control. Sikorski ordered the Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland), by far the largest of the underground organizations, to transform itself into the central organ of military resistance under the name of Związek Walki Zbrojnej....

  17. Einsatzkommando 1/I

    • EK 1/I

    Einsatzkommando 1/I, Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe I, 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.

  18. Einsatzkommando 4/I

    • EK 4/I

    Einsatzkommando 4/I, Einsatzkommando 4 of Einsatzgruppe I, 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.

  19. Sicherheitsdienst-Hauptamt

    • Security Service Main Office
    • SD-Hauptamt

    Founded in 1939

    The Sicherheitsdienst-Hauptamt became part of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in 1939.

  20. Sonderstab F

    • Special Staff F

    A special military mission called Sonderstab F, after its commander General Felmy, was sent to Iraq in 1941-05.