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  1. Polska Partia Socjalistyczna

    • Polish Socialist Party
    • PPS

    Founded in 1892

    The Polska Partia Socjalistyczna was established in 1892 by descendants of the Polish nobility and Polonized Jews from Warsaw. PPS combined the ideology of socialism with the Polish insurrectionary tradition.

  2. Polska Organizacja Wojskowa

    • Polish Military Organisation
    • POW

    The Polska Organizacja Wojskowa was founded by Marshal Józef Piłsudski, the future chief of independent Poland. Its main function had been intelligence-gathering and sabotage.

  3. 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.

  4. Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa

    • Polish People’s Action for Independence
    • PLAN

    Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa was a Polish underground group.

  5. Pesti Izraelita Hitközség

    • Pest Israelite Congregation
    • Jewish community of Pest
    • PIH

    The Pest Israelite Congregation was the largest Reform (Neolog) congregation in Hungary, with close to 200,000 members before the Holocaust. Between 1929 and 1944, the congregation was presided by banker Samu Stern. After the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, the leadership of the Pest Israelite Congregation was dissolved and replaced the Central Jewish Council created by order of the Nazis.

  6. Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS

    • Personal Staff of the Reich Leader of the SS
    • Persönlicher Stab RFSS

    The Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS was developed from personnel surrounding the Reichsführer-SS. The Hauptamt was in charge of all administrative offices entrusted with the realization of special plans of the Reichsführer-SS.

  7. Organizzazione Zionistica de la Tripolitania

    • Zionist Organization of Tripolitania
    • OZT

    1924/1958-12-03

    The Zionist Organization of Tripolitania was founded in 1924, and dissolved in 1958-12-03 by the Libyan government.

  8. Otez Paisii

    • Father Paisii

    Otez Paisii was a right-wing nationalist organization in Bulgaria.

  9. He-khaluts Ha-lokhem

    • Khaluts Youth Combat Organization

    Founded in 1942

    In Krakow, in mid-1942, a coalition was formed known as He-khaluts Ha-lokhem. He-khaluts Ha-lokhem was a small group of about 100 people, which limited their scope for action. It also organized actions outside the ghetto walls, primarily in hit and run attacks. The best-known action of the Krakow organization was throwing grenades into the German café Cyganeria on 1942-12-22, killing more than a dozen people. After that attack, many members were arrested and killed; most of the rest died during the final liquidation of the ghetto in 1943-03.

  10. Organisation Sioniste de France

    • Zionist Organization of France
    • OSF

    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.

  11. Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft

    Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft was an institution established in Prague during the war to liquidate Jewish shops and companies that were of little significance to the occupying forces. The Nazis divided the Jewish shops and companies they expropriated into two categories. The first consisted of enterprises they wished to preserve, which they placed under the supervision of a Verwalter. The remaining businesses were sold off. Omnia liquidated some 13,000 Jewish businesses in the Netherlands. The proceeds were deposited in an account at the Liro Bank under the owner’s name. The sale price was in ...

  12. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt

    • Supreme Command of the Armed Forces War Economy and Armament Office
    • WiRü

    Founded in 1935

    The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt was founded in 1935 as an economic planning staff of the Reichskriegsministerium. The Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt' powers were confined to gathering statistical data or preparing economic intelligence on foreign countries. When the Reichskriegsministerium was abolished in 1938, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht took over the Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt.

  13. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

    • Supreme Command of German Armed Forces
    • OKW

    The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht issued the directive for the war on the Soviet Union on 1941-06-04: ‘The total elimination of all resistance passive or active’. This was a mandate for mass murder against military and civilian targets contravening all traditional rules of war.

  14. Oeuvres d'Aide Sociale Israélite

    • Israelite Social Aid Agency

    Founded in 1939-11

    The Oeuvres d'Aide Sociale Israélite was established in 1939-11 to aid Jewish refugees, extended their services to all Alsatians and Lorrainers in need after the German occupation of the border provinces.

  15. 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.

  16. Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps

    • National Socialist Motor Corps
    • NSKK

    1931-04-20/1945

    The aim of the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps was to educate its members in motoring skills. They were mainly trained in the operation and maintenance of high performance motorcycles and automobiles. The NSKK also functioned as a roadside assistance group in the mid 1930s.

  17. Naczelna Rada Opiekuńcza

    • Nazi-Run Main Welfare Council
    • NRO

    The Naczelna Rada Opiekuńcza embraced the respective public welfare agencies of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews.

  18. Narodowa Demokracja

    • National Democratic Party
    • ND

    The Narodowa Demokracja was created by nationalists.

  19. 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.

  20. Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége

    • Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities
    • MAZSIHISZ

    Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége is the representative organ of the local Jewry. Its highest level is the council, with 121 members from all around the Hungarian synagogues, and the rabbis. The MAZSIHISZ’s role is not only to keep up the Judaism, but to provide social services and to conserve the Jewish heritage and improve the traditional Jewish education.