La solidarité ethnique et politique dans l'exil : Le Jewish Labor Committee et les réfugiés anti-nazis et anti-fascistes, 1934-1941

Abstract

Catherine Collomp, Ethnic and Political Solidarity: The Jewish Labor Committee and Antinazi and Antifascist Refugees, 1934-41. This article presents the role of the Jewish Labor Committee, founded in 1934, in the struggle against nazism and fascism from the United States. Springing from the American "Jewish labor movement" in the garment trades, this organization, whose leaders had been Bundists in the Russian empire, obtained the support of the American Federation of Labor to establish American unions' solidarity for the victims of nazi and fascist persecution perpetrated against Jews but also against German, Austrian, Italian, Polish and Tcheck labor leaders, socialists and social-democrats more generally. In 1940-1941, the JLC organized two rescue operations for these leaders and militants who had sought refuge in Southern France or in Lithuania.