The Union des progressistes juifs de Belgique (UPJB, Union of Progressive Jews of Belgium) is a Belgian Jewish organization set up in 1939 as Solidarité juive (Jewish Solidarity) by antifascist Jews in Belgium, becoming in 1946 Solidarité juive, aide aux victimes de l'oppresseur nazi (Jewish Solidarity, help to the victims of the Nazi oppressor). It took on its present name in 1969. Just before WWII, refugees from Nazism came to Belgium, some clandestinely. Jews and communists were heavily represented among them, some of whom assembled in informal movements such as Main-d'oeuvre étrangère and Main-d'œuvre immigrée (as in neighbouring France). Aid associations were created, such as Le Secours rouge (Red Relief). When the war began, Solidarité juive was one of these associations and worked closely with the Comité de Défense des Juifs, and with Secours mutuel (left-wing Zionists). Members of Solidarité juive were active in rescuing and hiding Jewish children, but also as armed partisans in the Front de l'Indépendance and as information agents in Leopold Trepper's Red Orchestra, based in Brussels. More information...
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