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  1. Union de la Jeunesse Juive

    • Union of Jewish Youth
    • UJJ

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

  2. Ústredný hospodársky úrad

    • UHU

    In Slovakia, anti-Jewish measures has started in 1938, and became increasingly severe as Jews were pushed out of jobs, forbidden to pursue professions, and dispossessed. A specially created Central Economic Office headed by Augustin Morávek, Ústredný hospodársky úrad, was responsible for carrying out expropriations.

  3. Tsentralny shtab partizanskogo dvizheniya

    • Central Staff for the Partisan Movement
    • TsShPD

    1942-05-30/1944-01-13

    Tsentralny shtab partizanskogo dvizheniya, the organizing center of military operations under the leadership of the partisan movement in German-occupied areas of the USSR, was created under the staff of the Supreme High Command on 1942-05-30.

  4. Schweizerischen Zentralstelle für Flüchtlingshilfe

    • Swiss Central Office for Refugee Relief
    • SZF

    Founded in 1936-06

    In 1936-06, the main relief organizations merged to form the Schweizerischen Zentralstelle für Flüchtlingshilfe in order to pool their energies and co-ordinate their stand vis-a-vis the authorities.

  5. Statistisches Reichsamt

    • Imperial Office

    Reichsamt für Wehrwirtschaftliche Planung was renamed as Statistisches Reichsamt. This department of industrial statistics became an independent institution in 1938.

  6. Service Social des Etrangers

    • Office of Social Services for foreigners
    • SSE

    Founded in 1942-01-01

    Service Social des Etrangers was a Vichy government agency connected with both the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Labor and charged with the delivery of social services to foreigners in France.

  7. Service Social d'Aide aux Emigrants

    • Association of Social Assistance for Migrants
    • SSAE

    Founded in 1921

    The Service Social d'Aide aux Emigrants organized the delivery of social services to migrants through its local branches.

  8. Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann

    • Eichmann-Sonderkommando
    • SEK

    It was a special unit of SS soldiers under the immediate command of Adolf Eichmann. After the German occupation of Hungary Eichmann arranged with his special unit the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews.

  9. Secours Suisse aux Enfants

    • Swiss Children's Aid

    The Secours Suisse aux Enfants, an agency of the Swiss Red Cross, an organization founded to care for children displaced during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.

  10. Secours National

    Founded in 1914-08

    The Secours National, a war relief organization, had been founded in 1914-08 as a kind of 'Union Sacrée' of charitable endeavors, centralizing and coordinating war relief until 1918. Revived in 1939-10, it took on the same tasks during the new conflict.

  11. Roland Battalion

    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. After the start of Operation Barbarossa the Roland Battalion moved into the southern Soviet Ukraine.

  12. Reichsluftfahrtministerium

    • State Ministery of Aviation
    • RLM

    Founded in 1933-04-29

    On 1933-04-29 the 'State Commissioner's Department for Aviation' was converted to the Reichsluftfahrtministerium with Göring as Minister and Milch as Staatssekretär.

  13. Reichskulturkammer

    • Reich Chamber of Culture
    • RKK

    Göbbels was designated president of the Reichskulturkammer. The creation of the RKK is an excellent example of the process Gleichschaltung. Göbbels had the power to exclude all those who were considered racially or artistically objectionable.

  14. Reichskommissariat für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums

    • German Resettlement Population Policy
    • RKFDV

    1939/1945

    The Reichskommissariat für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums program was a form of imperialism in which the oldest patterns of the biological struggle for group survival were treated as norms. The RKFDV took away the lands and the wealth of other peoples, and established themselves in these new areas with this new wealth.

  15. Revisionist Zionist Alliance

    • Alliance of Revisionists-Zionists

    Founded in 1925

    Vladimir Jabotinsky founded the Revisionist Zionist Alliance in 1925, as a variant of Theodor Herzl's Political Zionism. Revisionist Zionism is part of the pantheon of Zionist movements that developed at the end of the 19th century in response to increased Jewish persecution in Europe.

  16. Reseau Marcel

    • Abadi network

    1943/1944

    The Marcel network was a rescue mission operating in France, Nice, that between 1943 and 1944 saved 527 Jewish children ranging in age from newborns to teenagers. The network was organized by Moussa Abadi, a Syrian Jew from Damascus, who had been studying in France since 1928, and his French Jewish girlfriend, Odette Rosenstock.

  17. Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen

    • Non-Pure Aryan Descent

    1933/1936

    The Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen was founded in 1933, soon after the onset of state persecution of the Jews. In 1936, the intensification of Anti-Jewish policies led the Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen and similar smaller organizations to form one large federation, which was approved by the responsible office of the Reich Propaganda Ministry in agreement with the Gestapo. The new association was called the Paulusbund.

  18. Paulusbund

    • Alliance of Non-Aryan Christians

    1936/1937

    In 1936, the intensification of Anti-Jewish policies led the Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen and similar smaller organizations to form one large federation, which was approved by the responsible office of the Reich Propaganda Ministry in agreement with the Gestapo. The new association was called the Paulusbund, founded by dr. Richard Wolff. In 1936, the Paulsbund had approximately eighty thousand members. The Paulusbund existed for only six months.

  19. Reichsstudentenführung

    • National Student Leadership
    • RSF

    Founded in 1936

    The Reichsstudentenführung, a student organization, was established in 1936.

  20. Rada Narodowa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

    • National Council of the Polish Republic

    Founded in 1939-12

    The Rada Narodowa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej was established in 1939-12, in the wake of the German occupation of the country, by decree of the Polish president-in-Exile who also appointed its members. The council functioned as an advisory body to the president and to the Polish Government-in-Exile but which lacked executive powers.