Abbreviations of Organization Names
ACCR
American Committee for Christian German Refugees, USA
ACI
L’Aide Chrétienne aux Israelites
ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union, USA
ADIR
Association des Déportées et Internees de la Resistance (Association of Deported and Interned Women of the Resistance), France
AFL
American Federation of Labor, USA
AFSC
American Friends’ Service Committee (Quakers), USA
AIU
Alliance Israëlite Universelle (Universal Jewish Alliance), France
AJ
Armée Juive (Jewish Army), France
AJC
American Jewish Committee
AJB
Association des Juifs de Belgique
AK
Armia Krajowa, Home Army, Poland
AL
Armia Ludowa, Peoples Army, Poland
AR
Allambiztonsagi Rendeszet (State Security Police), Hungarian Gestapo
ARC
American Red Cross, USA
ARF
American Relief for France, USA
AS
Armée Secrète (Secret Army), France
ASC
Amsterdamsch Studenten Corps
BCH
Bataliony Chlopskie (Peasants Battalions), Poland
BEL-HICEM
Belgique-HICEM
BuF
Bevölkerungswesen und Fürsorge
CADI
Comité d’Action et de Défense des Immigrés (Action and Defense Committee for Immigrants)
CAR
Committee for Aid to Refugees from Germany (Comité d’Aide aux Réfugiés), France
CC
Consistoire Central
CCOJA
Comité de Coordination des Oeuvres d’Assistance du Grand Paris (Central Committee of Jewish Aid Societies)
CDJ
Comité de Défense des Juifs
CDJC
Centre de Documentation Juive Contemperaine
CEGES-SOMA
Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines/Studie en Documentatiecentrum Oorlog en Hedendaagse Maatschappij (Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society), Brussels
CFA
Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
CGD
Comité Général de Défense des Juifs (General Defense Committee), France
CGQJ
Commissariat Générale aux Questions Juives
CIMADE
Commission d’Inter-mouvement auprès des Evacués (Committee for Action on Behalf of Refugees), France
CIO
Congress of Industrial Organizations, USA
CLN
National Committee of Liberation (Commitato di Liberazione Nationale), Italy
CNCR
Canadian National Committee on Refugees, Canada
CNDJ
Comité National de Defense des Juifs, France
CNT
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
CO
Comité d’Organisation (Organizing Committee)
COMASSIS
Portuguese Committee of Assistance to Jewish Refugees
COSOR
Comité des Oeuvres Sociales des Organisations de Resistance (Social Aid Committee for Resistance Organizations)
CPR
Commission for Polish Relief
CRIF
Conseil Représentatif des Israélites de France
CS-6
Corelli Straat 6, Amsterdam (underground resistance group)
CUN
Spanish Comité de Union National, Spain, France
CVIA
Comité de Vigilance des Intellectuels Antifascistes
DCA
Direction de Centres d’Accueil
DELASEM
Aid Commission for Jewish Refugees (Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti Ebrei), Italy, France
DNSAP
Danish National Socialist Party
“Divers”
National Organization for Assistance to Divers, (Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderdviker), The Netherlands
DORSA
Dominican Republic Settlement Association
EAM
National Liberation Front (Ethnikon Apeletherotikon Metopon)
EFI
Entr’aide Français Israélite
EIF
Éclaireurs Israélites de France (Jewish Boy Scouts of France)
ELAS
Greek Popular Liberation Army (Ellenikos Laikos Apeletherotikos Stratos), Greece
ERC
Emergency Rescue Committee (Centre Americain de Secours), HQ, New York, USA, Marseilles, France
FFI
Forces Françaises d’Interieur
FFL
Forces Françaises Libres (Free French Forces)
FI
Font de L’independence (Independence Front), Belgium
FN
Front National (National Front), Belgium
FPO
Farainikte Partisaner Organizacje
FSC/AFSC
Friends Service Committee/American Friends Service Committee
FSJF
Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France
FTP
Franc-Tireur et Partisans
FW
Front Wallon, Belgium
GL
People’s Guard, Poland (later People’s Army, AL)
GTE
Groupes des Travailleurs Etrangers (Foreign Labor Battalion)
HIAS
Hebrew Immigrant Aid and Sheltering Society, headquarters New York, USA
HICEM
Umbrella organization composed of HIAS, ICA, and EMIGDIREKT (Berlin Aid Society), New York, New York
HIJEF
Hilfsverein für Jüdische Flüchtlinge im Ausland (Society for the Aid of Refugees Abroad), Montreux, Switzerland
IC
International Committee for the Care of European Refugees, “Komor Committee,” Shanghai, China
ICA
Jewish Colonisation Association
ICG
ICG Coordinating Foundation
ICRC
International Committee for the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
IGCR
Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees, USA, HQ London
IKG
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Vienna, Austria
IMS
International Migration Service
IRRC
International Rescue and Relief Committee
ISF
International Solidarity Fund, Great Britain
JA
Jewish Agency for Palestine
JCC
Joodse Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordinating Committee)
JDC
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, NY, NY, USA
JLC
Jewish Labor Committee
JNF
Jewish National Fund
JOC
Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Workers Youth)
JSH
Jüdische Soziale Hilfe
JSS
Jüdische Sociale Selbsthilfe
JTA
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
JUS
Jüdische Unterstütungsstelle
KAJ
Katholieke Arbeidersjeugd
KBI
Katholiek Bureau voor Israël
KEOKH
Külföldieket Ellenörzö Oországos Központi Hatoság (National Central Alien Control Office), Hungary
KISKA
Kisegítö Karhatalmi Alakulatok (Hu.; Hungarian Military Unit Auxiliary Force)
KK
Koordinatzie-Komitet; also called Koorinirungs-Komisie fun di Iddishe Hilfs and Sozial-Gesellshaftn
KMOF
A Közérdekü Munkaszolgálat Országos Felügyelöje (National Superintendent of the Public Labor Service System)
KMSZ
Keresztény Munkaszolgálatos Század (Christian Labor Service Company), Hungarian labor service company composed of Christians of Jewish descent considered as Jews under the Hungarian racial law of 1941
KP
Knokploeg (Hit Unit), Netherlands
KWC
Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej (Civil Struggle Directorate), Poland
KWP
Kierownictwo Walki Podziemnej (Underground Struggle Directorate), Poland
KZ
Konzentrationslager (Concentration Camp)
KZsT
Keresztény-Zsidó Társaság (Christian-Jewish Society)
LKP
Landelijke Knokploegen (Nation Hit Unit), Netherlands
LO
Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderdviker (National Organization for Assistance to Divers), The Netherlands
LPZ
Left Poalei Zion
MAOIH
A Magyarországi Autonom Orthodox Izraelita Hitfelekezet (Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Community of Hungary)
MAZOT
Magyar Zsidók Országos Tanácsa (National Council of Hungarian Jews), dissolved in the late 1940s
MAZSIHISZ
A Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége (Association of Jewish Communties of Hungary), successor of MIOK
MCC
Mennonite Central Committee, USA
MCCG
Movement for the Care of Children From Germany (Kindertransport), Great Britain
MCSz
Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Association)
MFM
Magyar Fuggetlensegi Mozgalom (Hungarian Independence Movement), Hungary
MIKÉFE
Magyar Izraelita Kézmüves és Földmüvelö Egyseület (Hungarian Jewish Artisan and Agricultural Association)
MINOSZ
Magyar Izraelita Nök Országos Szövetsége (National Association of Hungarion Jewish Women)
MIOI
Magyar Izraeliták Országos Irodája (National Bureau of Hungarian Jews)
MIPI
Magyar Izraeliták Párfogó Irodája (Welfare Bureau of Hungarian Jews.
MI6
British Secret Intelligence Service
MI9
British Military Intelligence Section charged with helping escaping Allied Prisoners of War
MJS
Mouvement de la Jeunesse Sioniste
MKZsSz
Magyarországi Keresztény Zsidók Szövetsége (Association of the Christian Jews of Hungary)
MNCR
Movement National Contre Le Racisme (National Movement Against Racism)
MOE
Main d’Oeuvre Étrangère, Belgium
MOE
Munkaszolgálatosok Országos Egyesülete (National Association of Labor Servicemen)
MOI
Main d’Oeuvre Immigrée (Immigrant Workers Organization), France
MOI-FTP
Main d’Oeuvre Immigrée – Franc-Tireur et Partisans, France
MUR
Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (United Resistance Movements), France
MUSZ
Munkaszolgálatosok Szövetsége (Association of Labor Servicemen), also the popular name for a former labor serviceman
MVDO
Dienst voor de Oorlogsslachtoffers (Belgian Service for War Victims)
MZsK
Magyar Zsidótlanitó Különitmény (Hungarian Dejewification Unit)
MZsKE
Magyar Zsidó Kulturális Egyesület (Hungrian Jewish Cultural Association)
MZsSz
Magyarorsági Zsidók Szövetsége (Association of the Jews of Hungary), the name of the Central Jewish Council
NIOD
Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation)
NRO
Naczelna Rada Opiekuncza
NRS
National Refugee Service, USA
NS
Nasjonal Samling (National Union Party), Norway
NSB
National-Sociolistiche Beweging
NSF
National Steun Fonds (National Support Fund), Netherlands
NSNAP
Nederlands Nationaal-Socialistisch Arbeiderspartij (Dutch National Socialist Party)
NSV
Nationalsozioalistische Volkswohlfahrt
NSZ
Narodowe Sily Zbrowjne (National Armed Forces), Poland
NV Group
Naamloze Vennootschap (Anonymous Group), Netherland
OFRRO
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilition Operations, USA
OJC
Organisation Juive de Combat, France
OKW
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High Command), Germany
OMIKE
Országos Magyar Izraelita Közmüvelödési Egyesület (National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Society)
OMZSA
Országos Magyar Zsidó Sëgitö Akció (National Hungarian Jewish Aid Campaign)
ONE
Oeuvre National d’Enfance (National Committee for the Child), Belgium
ORPO
Ordnungspolizei (Order Police), Germany
ORT
Organization Reconstruction Travail (Organization for Rehabilitation and Training), France
OSCAR
Organizzazione Sacerdotal Cattolica per l’Aiuto ai Ricercati, Italy
OSE
Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (Aid Operations for Children), France
OSS
Office of Strategic Services, USA
OWI
Office of War Information, USA
PACPR
President’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, USA
Pd’A
Partito di Azione (Party of Action), Milan, Italy
PEC
Palestine Economic Corporation
PES
Placówki Elkspozytury Sledczej
PPS
Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party), Poland
PVDE
Polícia de Vigilancia e Defenza do Estado (Portuguese State Security Police)
PZ
Poalei Zion
RCM
Refugee Childrens Movement, England
REC
The Refugee Economic Corporation, USA
RELICO
Committee for Relief of the War-Stricken Jewish Population
RGO
Rada Glowna Opiekuncza (Central Relief Council), Poland
RPZ
Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council for Aid to Jews; Zegota), Poland
RSHA
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office)
RV
Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden, Germany
RVE
Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, Germany
RWR
Russian War Relief
SA
Sturm Abteilung, Storm Troops of the Nazi Party
SACRA
Shanghai Ashkenazi Collaborating Relief Association
SASG
Sezione Aerea di San Gioacchino, Underground Network, Italy
SD
Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service), Germany
SDAP
Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij
SIG
Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund
SIPO
Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police), the Gestapo and Kripo jointly
Sivorg
Secretariat of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Civilian Resistance Movement, Norway
SJ
Society of Jesus (Catholic, Jesuit)
SJUF
Schweizerischer Jüdischer Unterstützungsfond für Flüchtlinge, Switzerland
SKSS
Stoleczny Komitet Samopomocy Spolecznej
SLS
Slovenska L’udová Strana
SN
Secours Nationale, France
SNCF
Société Nationale des Chemins de Fers Français
SOB
Socialist Fighting Organization, Poland
SOBÜ
Sonderbüro (Special Bureau), Philips Industries, Netherlands
SOCOBO
Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia
SOE
Special Operations Executive
SS
Schutzstaffel
SSAE
Service Social Internationale d’Aide aux Emigrants (Social Service for Aid to Emigrants)
SSE
Service Social des Etrangers
STO
Service du Travail Obligatoire (Service of Obligatory Labor)
TOB
Clandestine Fighting Oranization, Poland
TOPOROL
Towarzystwo Popierania Rolnictwa
TOZ
Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia
UGIF
Union Générale des Israélites de France (General Union of the Jews of France)
ÚHÚ
Ústredný Hospodárský Úrad
UJA
United Jewish Appeal
UJRE
Union de Juifs pour la Résistance et l’Entraide, France
UKG
Utrechts Kinder Comite (Utrecht Children’s Committee), Utrecht, Netherlands
UNRRA
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UPA
United Palestine Appeal
USA
United States of America
USC
Unitarian Service Committee, headquarters, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (non-Jewish)
USC
Utrecht Studenten Corps
USCOM
United States Committee for the Care of European Children, USA
USHMM
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
USJ
Union des Sociétés Juives
UVSV
Utrechtsche Vrouwelijke Studenten Vereeniging
ÜZ
Üstrdna Zidov
Vaada
Vaadat ha’Ezra ve’ha’Hatzalah (Relief and Rescue Committee), Budapest, Hungary
VG
Vrije Groepen (Free Group), Netherlands
VH
Va’ad Hahatzalah
VNV
Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (Flemish Nationalist Association)
VSIA
Verband Schweizerischer Israelitischer Armenpflegen
WIZO
Women’s International Zionist Organization
WJC
World Jewish Congress
WRB
War Refugee Board, USA
WVHA
SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungshaputamt (Economic Administration Central Office)
XU
Military Intelligence Organization, Norway
YMCA
Young Men’s Christian Association, USA
YWCA
Young Women’s Christian Association, USA
YV
Yad Vashem Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Memorial, Jerusalem, Israel
ZA
Zentralausschuss für Hilfe und Aufbau
ZAM
Zamosc and Lublin Committee for Aid to Jews
Zegota
The Council for Aid to Jews (Rada Pomocy Zydom; RPZ), Poland
ZETOS
Zydowskie Towarzystwo Opieki Spolecznej, Poland
ZOB
Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, Poland
ZOW
Jewish Military Organization, Poland
ZWZ
Union of Armed Struggle, Poland
ZZW
Jewish Military Association, Poland