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After
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, a people’s assembly on the air
was organized under the slogan of Soviet Jews’ unity with
"their Jewish brethren" around the world. The Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee first met in Kuybyshev, where some of the
institutions of state had moved when the German army advanced toward
Moscow. The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was one of a set of
anti-Fascist committees that operated under the Ministry of
Propaganda. The committee urged world Jewry, especially that in the
United States, to mobilize for the anti-Fascist struggle. Its
communiques made abundant use of Jewish motifs, symbols, and
personalities’ names. The committee presidium was headed by some
20 famous Soviet Jews from all walks of life. |
