Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Since the German occupation of Hungary, the Jewish Council of Budapest operated eight hospitals (the most prominent was in Szabolcs utca), but with a decreasing number of beds only the most urgent cases could be treated. The lack of equipment and doctors was a general problem and the lack of freedom of movement for doctors was also hectic. [50]
' Jewish council ') was an administrative body established in German-occupied Europe during World War II which purported to represent a Jewish community in dealings with the Nazi authorities. The Germans required Jews to form Judenräte across the occupied territories at local and sometimes national levels.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is an international advocacy organization whose key area of focus is to promote religious and civil rights for Jews and others. [5] [8]AJC has 25 regional offices in the United States, 13 overseas offices, and 35 international partnerships with Jewish communal institutions around the world.
Joel Brand (Hungarian: Brand Jenő; [3] 25 April 1906 – 13 July 1964) was a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee (Va'adat ha-Ezra ve-ha-Hatzala be-Budapest or Va'ada), [4] an underground Zionist group in Budapest, Hungary, that smuggled Jews out of German-occupied Europe to the relative safety of Hungary, during the Holocaust.
Members of the Jewish Council of Budapest (6 P) Pages in category "Jewish councils in Hungary" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is an American Zionist, [1] Jewish public affairs organization with local subsidiaries that carries out "action agendas on behalf of and in the name of the local Jewish communities." [2] Councils may aim "to represent the consensus of the organized Jewish community" in the cities in which they ...
Pages in category "American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 472 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Conference of Presidents was formed when Jewish groups felt a need to respond to the perceived tilt of the Eisenhower administration away from Israel. In 1954, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Henry Byroade attempted to intimidate Israel, B'nai B'rith president Philip Klutznick invited the leaders of 16 American Jewish organizations to meet in New York City as the Conference of Presidents ...