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The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC), founded in New York in 1934, was the vanguard of American labor's anti-Nazi and antifascist activism. The JLC grew out of the Jewish labor movement in the US. In 1940–1941, it achieved the rescue of hundreds of European labor and social-democratic party leaders trapped in France by the invading German army or in Lithuania by the Soviet army. Among these persons were some of the foremost leaders of the Labour and Socialist International and of the International Federation of Trade Unions. Many others were Polish Bundists, the JLC's founders' original political family, doubly exposed to Nazi brutality by their Jewish identity and social-democratic positions. This event is the focal point from which American labor's international solidarity for the labor victims of Nazism and fascism can be observed. In addition, the connection between the JLC and the Emergency Rescue Committee whose agent, Varian Fry, rescued artists and intellectuals, is also established in the paper.

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.