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  1. Eretz Israel Office

    • Palestine Office

    Founded in 1908

    Eretz Israel Office was a Zionist institution established in Jaffa in 1908, headed by Arthur Rupin. It was a central agency for pro-Zionist settlement activities after the First World War, aiding land purchase and immigration.

  2. Entraide Temporaire

    Founded in the 1920s

    Entraide Temporaire, a Paris-based network, was a secular group created by Lucie Chevalley, president of the Service Social d'Aide aux Émigrants. The idea came up to reactivate an existing children's charity founded in the 1920s called Sauvetage de l'Enfance, which for the circumstances was renamed Entraide Temporaire.

  3. Sauvetage de l'Enfance

    Founded in the 1920s

    Sauvetage de l'Enfance was a children's charity, founded in the 1920s.

  4. Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement

    • Division of the Federal Department of Justice and Police
    • EJPD

    After Hitler seized power in Germany in early 1933, the Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement issued regulations, approved by the Federal Counsil (the head of the Swiss executive branch), under which the borders were to be kept open, but refugees in most cases were to be granted only temporary residence.

  5. Einsatzkommando Tilsit

    • EK Tilsit

    1941/1945

    Einsatzkommando Tilsit, headed by Hans Joachim Boehme, was stationed between 1941 and 1945 mostly in Lithuania and the Zhitomir region in Ukraine. The unit was under the command of Einsatzgruppe A.

  6. Deutsche Gold- und Silber Scheideanstalt

    • Degussa

    Deutsche Gold- und Silber Scheideanstalt was a large German firm engaged in metal refining and chemical production, including Zyklon-B cyanide tablets used in the gas chambers. Degussa held an exclusive contract with the Nazis for melting items taken from the Jews in concentration camps, including dental gold.

  7. 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...

  8. 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.

  9. Comité d'Assistance aux Enfants Juifs Refugies

    • CAEJR

    The Comité d'Assistance aux Enfants Juifs Refugies was founded by Madame Goldschmidt-Brodsky, whose husband, Alfred, was an official of the Belgian Red Cross.

  10. Communauté juive de Lausanne

    • Jewish Community of Lausanne
    • CIL

    Founded in 1848

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

  11. Communauté Israelite de Geneve

    • Jewish Community of Geneva
    • CIG

    1952/present

    The activities and the services of Communauté Israelite de Geneve include the services in the synagogues, rabbinical assistance, a kindergarten, courses for children (Talmud torah) and adults, cultural activities, a youth center, a social service, activities for seniors, a cemetery, a library, a community restaurant and meeting space.

  12. Chetnik movement

    • Chetniks

    The Chetnik movement was founded on the ideology of an expansionist Serbia, a common state for the Serbian people. From the establishment of the Yugoslav state in 1918-12 until its destruction in 1941-04, the Chetnik organizations were pillars of expansionist Serbian elements within the top ranks of the government.

  13. Belorusskii Shtab Partizanskogo Dvizheniya

    • Belarussian Headquarters for the Partisan Movement
    • BShPD

    Belorusskii Shtab Partizanskogo Dvizheniya was a partisan movement.

  14. Brannik

    • Defender

    Brannik was a Bulgarian youth organization, created to be nationalist, royalist, non-political, and a loyal supporter of the regime of King Boris.

  15. Bŭlgarska Komunisticheska Partiya

    • Bulgarian Communist Party
    • BKP

    Founded in 1891

  16. Belgian Government-in-Exile

    Founded in 1940-10

    The Belgian Government-in-Exile fled initially to France, hoping to continue the military struggle against the Germans. The French collapse in 1940-06 initially caused the ministers to lose heart and to seek to return to Belgium. When this, however, proved not possible, Hubert Pierlot and three other senior ministers traveled to London, where in 1940-10 they established a Government-in-Exile formally committed to the Allied cause.

  17. Befehlsblatt der Chefs der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD

    • Befehlsblatt der Chefs Sipo

    Internal newsletter of the Sicherheitspolizei und the Sicherheitsdienst.

  18. Armée Belge des Partisans

    • Belgian Partisans Army

    Resistance movement.

  19. Arbeitsamt

    • Labor Office

    The Arbeitsamt had the general responsibility for meticulously filling the Arbeitseinsatz imposed on most of the ghetto’s inhabitants (men aged 16-57; women aged 17-46). In order to locate, arrest, and punish shirkers, the Arbeitsamt made use of the police apparatus.

  20. Polskie Siły Zbrojne w ZSRR, 1941-1942

    • Anders' Army

    A Polish army was set up in the Soviet Union, headed by General Vladislav Anders. Despite the fact that the officers in Anders’ army were generally hostile towards them, some 4,000 Jews – 5% of the total number of soldiers – served in its ranks. At the end of 1942, Anders’ Army reached Eretz Israel via Tehran. Some 3,000 Jewish soldiers stayed in the country, joining the Jewish Underground. Those who remained in Anders’ Army took part in the invasion of Italy and the battles in the area of Monte Casino. 22 Jewish soldiers were killed at Monte Casino, 62 were injured, and many were awarded m...