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  1. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

    • YIVO

    From 1925 to the present

    In 1925, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in Vilna (Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania), by key European intellectuals, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, to record the history and pioneer in the critical study of the language, literature and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe. From its inception, YIVO was deeply concerned that the language and culture of East European Jewry were undergoing radical change in a rapidly modernizing world. YIVO's founders were tireless in collecting the documents and archival records of Jewish communities across Eastern Europe...

  3. Weerbaarheidsafdeling (WA)

    • WA

  4. Nederlandse Unie

    24 July 1940 - December1941

  5. Vrijwilligerslegioen Nederland

    • Freiwilligenlegion Niederlande

    1941

    Dutch volunteers to fight with the Nazi's on the East-front

  6. Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingen (NVV)

    • NVV

    1 january 1906 - 1977 (merged into broader labour unions)

    Collaborated with German Occupation and was forbidden from 1942

  7. Prinses Irene Brigade

    • Princess Irene Brigade
    • PIB
    • Irene Brigade

  8. ANWB

    • Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB

    1 july 1883 -

  9. Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij (SDAP)

    • SDAP

    26 August 1894

    Socialist Party in the Netherlands

  10. U.S. Army

    • Amerikaanse Strijdkrachten
    • United States Army

  11. Germaansche SS

    • Germaanse SS
    • Nederlandsche SS
    • Germaansche SS in Nederland

    Dutch SS. The Nederlandsche SS was created on 11 september 1940. It changed it name on 1 november 1942 to Germaansche SS in Nederland.

  12. British Army

    • Britse Strijdkrachten
    • Anglická Armáda
    • הצבא הבריטי

  13. Ichud - World Alliance of Hebrew Socialist Workers

    • איחוד - ברית הפועלים הסוציאליסטית העולמית
    • איחוד
    • Ichud

  14. Polish Army

    • Armia Polska
    • צבא פולני

  15. Czechoslovakian Army

    • Československá armáda
    • צבא צ'כוסלובקי

  16. Bulgarian Government

    • ממשלת בולגריה
    • Government of Bulgaria

  17. Jewish National Fund

    • קרן קימת לישראל
    • Keren Kayemet LeYisrael
    • Keren Kayemet LeIsrael
    • KKL
    • JNF

    From 1901 until present

    From its inception, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) - called Keren Kayemet L'Israel in Hebrew - was charged with the task of fundraising in Jewish communities for the purpose of purchasing land in Eretz Yisrael to create a homeland for the Jewish people. JNF's work can be divided into three phases. During its first 50 years, JNF was charged with the task of purchasing the land. Over the next 50 years, JNF directed its efforts to developing the land, planting over 220 million trees, building infrastructure for housing, parks and recreation areas, and helping to settle immigrants from across t...

  18. Hechalutz

    • החלוץ
    • HeHalutz

    Founded in 1905

    Association of Jewish youth whose aim was to train its members to settle on the land in Israel. The original meaning of the Hebrew word is the vanguard that leads the host on its advanceץ The idea of Hechalutz was conceived during the crisis that overtook Russian Jewry in the aftermath of the 1881 pogroms. This awakening was influenced indirectly by the Russian revolutionary movement, which called upon the intelligentsia to "go out to the people." Two of the societies that were formed at this time – *Bilu, which called for settlement in Ereẓ Israel, and *Am Olam, which advocated settlement ...

  19. Bulgarian army

    • צבא בולגרי

  20. Austrian government

    • Österreichische Regierung
    • ממשלת אוסטריה
    • Government of Austria