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unusual facts about Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee


Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee

Three members of Safka unsuccessfully run in European Parliament election in 2009.


Félix Pita Rodríguez

An active communist, Rodriguez helped to found the Ibero-American Anti-Fascist Committee during the Spanish Civil War.

Itzik Feffer

The American concert singer and actor Paul Robeson met Feffer on July 8, 1943, in New York during a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee event chaired by Albert Einstein, one of the largest pro-Soviet rallies ever held in the United States.

Samuil Marshak

His name was often mentioned in the documents of the eliminated Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.

Shakne Epshtein

Solomon Mikhoels, the chairman of JAC and Epshtein approached Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister and a Stalin henchman, with an idea to create a Jewish republic in the Crimea or in the Volga area (in place of the dismantled Volga Germans republic).

Shakne Epshtein (1883, Iwye - 27 July 1945) was a Jewish-Russian journalist and the secretary and editor of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC)'s newspaper, Eynikayt (Unity).


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