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3 unusual facts about Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee


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).


Félix Pita Rodríguez

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

Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee

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

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.

Jewish Anti-Zionist League

According to contemporary British security reports, the Forum Group had a considerable following amongst the Jewish community in Cairo (Krämer does however question the accuracy of this estimate, stating that the group had a rather limited impact).


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