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Organisations Browse List Aachen Prison Advisory Welfare Committee Agudas Israel World Organisation Alliance Israélite Universelle Allied Bank Commission American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service American Express American Federation of Jews from Central Europe American Jewish Conference American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee "Joint" American National Committee for Homeless Armenians American Polish War Relief American Society of Friends Anglo-American Committee on Jews Anglo-Jewish Organisation Anglo-Polish Catholic Association Association for Jewish Youth Association of Baltic Jews in Great Britain Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen Association of Jewish Refugees (in Great Britain) Association of New Citizens Association of Polish War Refugees Austin Motor Company Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society Bad Harzburg Jewish Community Bank of England Bar Kochba (Organisation of Maccabim from Central Europe in London) Berlin Jewish Club Bernhard Baron St George's Jewish Settlement Birmingham Jewish Cultural Society Birmingham Jewish Youth Centre B'nai Brith B'nai B'rith Rehabilitation Fund B'nai B'rith Youth Association Board of Deputies of British Jews Board of Guardians and Trustees for the Relief of the Jewish Poor Registered Boy Scouts International Bureau Brady Boys' Club Brady Girls' Club and Settlement Brit Chalutzim Datim (BaCHaD) (Movement of Religious Pioneers for Palestine) British Broadcasting Corporation British Council British Council for Refugees/British Council for Aid to Refugees British Council of Churches British European Airways British Organisation for Rehabilitation by Training British Red Cross British School of Motoring British United Press British-Czechoslovak Friendship League Canadian Jewish Congress Catholic Committee for Relief Abroad Centraal Registratiebureau Voor Joden Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation Central Committee of Christian Aid Societies for Racial Persecutees of non-Jewish Faith in Germany Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone Central Council for Health Education Central Council for Jewish Refugees Central Jewish Committee Central Jewish Lecture Committee Central Location Index Chief Rabbi's Kosher Canteen Committee Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council Children from the Camps Committee Children's Marrainage Scheme Children's World Community Chest Christian Council for Refugees Christian Relief Work for Victims of Racial Laws Christliches Hilfswerk für Rassisch Verfolgte Circle of Dutch Jews in Great Britain City Literary Institute, Covent Garden, London Comité Centrale Israélite pour la Réorganisation de la vie Réligieuse en Belgique Comité Francais de la Libération Nationale Comité Israélite des Refugies des Lois Raciales Commission on the Status of Jewish War Orphans in Europe Committee for Industrial Development from Overseas Committee for Jews in Germany Committee for Relief Abroad Congress House Trust Control Commission for Germany Cook [Thomas] and Son Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe Coppel [Alexander] (factory) Council for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Jews from Germany Council of British Societies for Relief Abroad Council of Christians and Jews Council of Manchester and Salford Jews Council of Voluntary Agencies Czech Refugee Trust Fund Czechoslovak Refugee Trust Don Suisse Dresdner Bank Ealing Studios Eleanor Rathbone Memorial in Palestine Embassies of Reconciliation European Advisory Committee European Council of Orthodox Jewry Executive Committee for Immediate European Relief Family Welfare Association Farben (I.G.) Chemical Combine Federation of Australian Jewish Welfare Societies Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations Federation of Lithuanian Jews Federation of Women Zionists Finchley Women's Zionist Society Flensburg Navigation School Free German Movement Friends (Quakers) (see also Religious Society of Friends) Friends' Ambulance Units Friends Relief Service Girl Guides Association Glanzstoff Good Housekeeping School of Cookery, London Habonim (Socialist Zionist Youth Movement) Hamburg Radio Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Hechalutz (Organisation of Jewish Pioneers for Palestine) Help Holland Council HICEM (HIAS - ICA Emigration Association) Hilfsverein de Deutschen Juden Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees International Hebrew Christian Alliance International Red Cross International Refugee Organisation International Refugee Organisation Austria International Tracing Service International Trust Corporation International Union for Child Welfare International Voluntary Service for Peace Internationale Zionistische Frauenorganisation Inter-University Jewish Federation J. Lyons & Co. Jewish Agency for Palestine Jewish Blind Society Jewish Board of Guardians Jewish Brigade Group Jewish Central Information Office Jewish Colonisation Association Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad Jewish Council for Russian War Relief Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc Jewish Emigration Assistance Society Jewish Maternity Society Jewish Museum, New York Jewish National and University Library Jewish National Fund for Great Britain and Ireland Jewish Refugees Committee Jewish Relief Unit Jewish Restitution Commission Jewish Restitution Successor Organization Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jewish Trust Corporation Jewish Welfare (Schleswig-Holstein) Jewish Welfare Advisory Council Jewish Welfare Board Jewish Women's Communal League Jewish Women's Guild Jewish Workers' Relief Committee Jewish Youth Refugee Organisation Jews' College, London Jews' Temporary Shelter Joint Orthodox Jewish Refugees Committee Joodsche Coördinatie Commissies in Nederland Jüdische Studenten-Vereinigung Berlin (Jewish Students' Union of Berlin) Jüdischer Frauenbund Keren Hatorah Committee Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal King's College of Household and Social Science Kring Van Nederlandsche Joden (Organisation of Dutch Jews in England) Kronprinz League of Jewish Women League of Nations Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London Linguaphone Institute London County Council London Jewish Hospital Lord Mayor's Fund Lord Mayor's United Nations Appeal for Children (UNAC) Fund Lutheran World Federation Maccabi Association London Maritime Training School, Neustadt, Schleswig Holstein Marks and Spencer Melbourne Jewish Women's Guild National Catholic Welfare Conference National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror National Council of Jewish Women National Peace Council National Society for the Prevention of Venereal Disease National Tracing Bureax Neasden Committee for the Relief of Tubercular Children New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies New Zionist Organisation Niederdeutsche Bankgesellschaft Nursery School Association of Great Britain (N.S.A.) Occupational Therapy Centre and Training School, London Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, "Society for the Aid of Children." Formally O.S.E. Office for Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations Office of Public Information Office of the Adviser on Jewish Affairs Organisation for Reconstruction and Training in Trades and Agriculture among Jews Oxford University Jewish Society Poalei-Zion Polish Jewish Refugee Fund Polish/Jewish Combatants Association Protestant Aid Society Provisional Central Committee for Protection and Welfare of Croation Political Refugees PSA Transport Ltd Rank Organisation Refugee Children's Movement Refugee Children's Rescue Committee Refugee Industries Committee Regional Refugee Council Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children, London Rhein-Ruhr Bank Royal College of Nursing Royal Institute of International Affairs Russian American Union for Protection and Aid to Russians Outside of Russia Salvation Army Save Europe Now Save the Children Fund Scottish Association of Girls' Clubs Secours Catholique Secretary of Jewish Post War Assistance Self Aid of Refugees Sephardi Ladies Guild Shoot-Up-Hill Women's Zionist Society Society for the Protection (or Promomotion) of Jewish Health (O.Z.E.) Society for Yugoslav Jewry South African Jewish War Appeal Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Spandau Prison, Berlin St John Ambulance Brigade Standing Conference of Voluntary Agencies Suchdienst für vermisste Deutsche Temporary International Council for Educational Reconstruction Torah Va'avodah Organisation Ukranian Canadian Relief Fund Union des Sociétés O.S.E. Union of Democratic Control Union of Ex-Inmates of Concentration Camps and Political Prisoners Union of Jewish Women of New Zealand Union of Jewish Students Union of Jewish Women Union of Maccabi Associations Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations Union of the Jewish Communities Unitarian Service Committee United Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (or United Committee for Jewish Relief Abroad) United Jewish Educational and Cultural Organisation United Jewish Educational and Cultural Organisation (Europe) United Jewish Overseas Relief Fund United Jewish Relief Agencies of Canada United Jewish Relief Appeal for the Rescue and Relief of Jewish Victims of War and Persecution United Kingdom Restitution Bureau United Kingdom Search Bureau for German Austrian and Stateless Persons from Central Europe United Nations United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration United Nations Special Commission on Palestine United Restitution Office (URO) United Service for New Americans United Zionist University of London Jewish Union Society Vauxhall Motors Voluntary Societies Advisory
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