Appendix A: Abbreviations

AA
German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt)

ACIP
Jewish Consistorial Association of the Israelites of Paris, France

AFL
American Federation of Labor, USA

AFSC
American Friends’ Service Committee (Quakers), USA

AIU
Universal Jewish Alliance (Alliance Israelite Universelle), France

AJ
Armée Juive (Jewish Army), France

AJC
American Jewish Committee, USA

ARC
American Red Cross, USA

ARF
American Relief for France, USA

AS
Armée Secrète (Secret Army)

BDS
Chief German Security Official (Befehlshaber der Sicherheitsdienstes)

CADI
Comité d’Action et de Défense des Immigrés (Action and Defense Committee for Immigrants)

CADJJ
Comité d’Action et de Défense de la Jeunesse Juive (Jewish Youth Committee for Defense and Action), France

CAR
Committee for Aid to Refugees from Germany (Comité d’Aide aux Réfugiés), France

CC
Consistoire Central des Israelites de France (Central Consistory of Jews of France)

CCOJA
Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance (Central Commission for Jewish Relief Agencies), France

CDJ
Jewish Defense Committee (Comité de Défense des Juifs)

CDJJ
Comité Directeur de la Jeunesse (Administrative Committee for Jewish Youth)

CGD
Comité Général de Défense (General Defense Committee), France

CGQJ
General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs (Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives)

CIAF
Commissione italiano de l’armistizia con la Francia

CIMADE
Commission d’Inter-mouvement auprès des Evacués (Committee for Action on Behalf of Refugees), France

CNDJ
Comité National de Defense des Juifs, France

CO
Comité d’Organisation (Organizing Committee)

COJASOR
Comité Juif d’Action Sociale et Reconstruction (Jewish Committee for Social Action and Professional Reorientation)

COSOR
Comité des Oeuvres Sociales des Organisations de Resistance (Social Aid Committee for Resistance Organizations)

CRIF
Representative Council of Jewish Organizations (Conseil Représentatif des Israelites de France)

CRJF
Conseil Représentatif des Juifs de France (Representative Council of the Jews of France), presently CRIF, Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France), France

CUDJF
Comité d’Union et de Défense des Juifs (Committee for the Union and Defense of Jews)

DCA
Main Office for the Shelter

DELASEM
Aid Commission for Jewish Refugees (Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti Ebrei), Italy, France

EFI
French Israelite Mutual Aid Society (Entr’aide Française Israélite)

EIF
French-Jewish Scouts (Eclaireurs Israélites de France), France, formerly OJC

ERC
Emergency Rescue Committee

ET
Temporary Mutual Assistance (Entr’aide Temporaire)

FSJF
Fédération des Sociétés Juives (Federation of Jewish Societies [of France]), France

FTPF
Franc-Tireurs et Partisans Français (French Irregulars and Partisans)

FTP-MOI
Military branch of the immigrant resistance, see FTPF and MOI, France

GMR
Groups Mobiles de Réserve (Mobile Reserve Groups)

GTE
Foreign Labor Battalions (Groupements de Travailleurs Étrangers)

HIAS
Hebrew Immigrant Aid and Sheltering Society, headquarters New York, USA

HICEM
Umbrella organization composed of HIAS, ICA, and EMIGDIREKT (Berlin Aid Society)

ICA
Jewish Colonization Association (Paris)

ICRC
International Committee for the Red Cross

IMS
International Migration Service

JJF
Jeunesse Juive de France (Jewish Youth in France)

KKL
Karen Kayemeth l’Israel

LICA
Ligue Internationale Contre l’Antisemitisme (International League Against Antisemitism), France

MBF
German Military Command in France (Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich)

MF
Main Forte (Strong Fist); part of Jewish Army

MJS
Mouvement des Jeunesses Sionistes (National Movement Against Racism)

MLN
Mouvement de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Movement), France

MNCR
National Movement Against Racism (Mouvement National Contre le Racisme), France

MOI
Main d’Oeuvre Immigrée (Immigrant Workers Organization), France

MUR
Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (United Resistance Movements), France

NRS
National Refugee Service, USA

OJC
Organisation Juive de Combat (Jewish Fighters Organization), name adopted by Jewish Army (Armée Juive; AJ), May 1944 (France)

ONE
National Committee for the Child (Oeuvre National d’Enfance)

OPEJ
Oeuvre de Protection de l’Enfance Juive (Program for the Protection of Jewish Children)

ORT
Organization for Reconstruction through Labor (Organisation pour le Reconstruction et le Travail, also known as Institution for Vocational Guidance and Training) – Society for Propagation of Artisanal and Agricultural Work, Geneva

OSE
Aid Operations for Children (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants), France

OSF
Organisation Sioniste de France (Zionist Organization in France)

PCF
Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party)

PQJ
Police for Jewish Affairs (Police des Questions Juives)

RELICO
Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population, Geneva, Switzerland

RSHA
Reich Security Division (Reichssicherheitshauptamt)

SCAP
Service de contrôle des administrateurs provisoires (Agency to Control Trustees)

SD
Germany Security Service, a division of the RSHA (Sicherheitsdienst)

SEC
Investigation and Inspection Division (Section d’Enquête et Contrôle) a special anti-Jewish police of the CGQJ

SER
Service d’Evacuation et de Regroupement (Zionist Service for Evacuation and Resettlement), France

SERE
Service d’Evacuation et de Regroupement (Office of Evacuation and Regrouping), France

SFP
Service des Faux Papiers (False Documents Service), MLN, France

SIPO
Germany Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei)

SOL
Order Service of the Legion, Veterans’ Legion (Service d’Ordre Légionnaire), known after January 1943 as the Milice

SSAE
Service Social d’Aide aux Émigrants (Society for Aid to Immigrants), France

SSE
Social Services for Foreigners (Service Social des Étrangers)

STO
Obligatory (Forced) Labor Service (Service du Travail Obligatoire)

TE
Travailleurs Étrangers (Foreign Workers)

UFDR
Union Française pour la Défense de la Race (French Union for the Defense of the Race)

UFJF
Union des Femmes Juives de France pour la Palestine (Federation of Jewish Women of France for Palestine), France

UGIF
Union Générale des Israélites de France (General Union of French Jews), France (N – North; S – South)

UJJ
Union de la Jeunesse Juive (Union of Jewish Youth), France

UJRE
Jewish Union for Resistance and Mutual Aid (Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l’Entraide), France

USC
Unitarian Service Committee, headquarters, USA (non-Jewish)

USJ
Union of Jewish Associations (Union des Sociétés Juives), France

WIZO
Women’s International Zionist Organization

YMCA
Young Men’s Christian Association, USA