The need for unification was essential at all levels: in July 1943, the Jewish Resistance organizations came together, at least partially, into a single organization, the General Committee for the Defense of the Jews ( CGD). The Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE) is part of this unified organization.
The UJRE secured recognition from the CGD for the actions of the armed fighters—the Jewish FTP of the M.O.I. From that point on, they received both moral and material support. In August 1943, while many were arrested, tortured, executed, and deported, the Jewish FTP in Paris continued to carry out effective operations, thanks to the civilian Resistance efforts of activists from the Jewish section of the M.O.I. and a portion of the French population. In the southern region, FTP-M.O.I. groups are expanding and stepping up their Resistance activities.
In 1944, the unification of the Jewish movements was completed with the accession of the Consistory (religious organization), the creation of the Representative Council of French Jews(CRIF). The participants draft a charter that defines, within the framework of the Republic, a political program that restores and guarantees to the Jews of France rights equal to those of other citizens.
The signatories of the charter held very different views on Zionism and the political choices to be made in the immediate postwar period, but Jews of all persuasions yearned, above all, for liberation and the restoration of the Republic in 1944.
