INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RESISTANCE FIGHTERS (FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DES RESISTANTS - FIR)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140036-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: October 1, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RESISTANCE FIGHTERS
(Federation Internationale des Resistants - FIR)
A Compilation of Available Basis
Reference Data -- Affiliates and Parallel
Organizations, Strength, Officers, Addresses,
Publications.
Based on Data Available
as of 1 October 1956
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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RESISTANCE FIGHTERS
(Federation Internationale des Resistants - FIR)
A. Headquarters Address:
Castellezgasse 35,
Vienna II, Austria
Imo. Regional Offices:
None
C. Claimed Membership:
4 million (1952)
D. Official Publications:
Resistance Unie (Published every other month)
Service d'Information (weekly)
E. Executive Officers (Elected Second Congress, November 1954):
Bureau
President: Colonel Frederic H. MANHES (France)
Vice Presidents: Fritz BEYLING (Germany)
Piero CALEFFI (Italy)
Jacques DEBU-BRIDEL (France)
Paul FALK (Germany)
Albert FORCINAL (France)
Alexandre GUNDOROV (USSR)
Umberto TERRACINI (Italy)
Pierre VILLON (France)
Jan VODICKA (Czechoslovakia)
Wilhelm STEINER (Austria)
Secretary General: Andre LEROY (France)
Asst. Secretary General: Aleksander SZUREK (Poland)
Claimed membership (1951): 200, 000
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Secretaries:
Bureau (Continued)
Siegfr ed BERLINER (Germany)
Renat BERTOLINI (Italy)
Otto ORN (Austria)
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A. Natio al Association of Veterans of the
Frenc Resistance
(Assn iation Nationale des Anciens Combattants
de la esistance Francaise)
Addr ss (1954): 27 Blvd. des Italiens,
Paris
Publi ation: France d'Abord
Estimated membership (1954): 23, 000
B. Nati nal Federation of Deportees, Internees,
Resi tants, and Patriots
(Fed ration Nationale des Deportes, Internes,
Resistants, Patriotes)
Add ess: 10 rue Leroux
Par s
Pub ication: Le Patriote Resistant
Co mittee of Anti=Fascist Resistance Fighters
(A sschuss antifaschistischer Widerstandskampfer)
Ad ress (1953): Charlottenstrasse 46,
Be lin
A sociation of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime
(Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes)
A dress: Roederbergweg 62,
F ankfurt /Main
P blication: Die Tat
risoners located at Ul. Widok 10, Warsaw, Poland.
xile through the Panhellenic Union of Political
s of 19,52 Greece was apparently represented in
here is no organized affiliate of FIR in Greece.
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2. AUSTRIA
Austrian Association of Resistance Fighters
and Victims of Fascism (Verband der
Widerstandskampfer and Opfer des Faschismus
Osterreichs)
Address: Castellezgasse 35,
Vienna II, Austria
Publication: Der Neue Mahnruf
Claimed membership (1952): 40, 000
Estimated membership (1954): 6, 698
Belgian Section of the FIR
(Section Belge de la FIR)
Address: 38 rue du Taciturne,
Brussels
Publication: None
Membership: Not available, but believed small
Union of Fighters Against Fascism
(Suyuz na Bortsite Protiv 'ashizrna)
Address: Bd. Stalin 18,
Sofia
Union of Fighters Against Fascism
(Svaz Protifasistickych Bojnovniku)
Address: 22 Legerova,
Prague
Claimed membership (1951): 200, 000
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Affil' ate s
Union of Resistance Fighters
A. National Association of Veterans of the
French Resistance
(Association Nationale des Anciens Combattants
de la Resistance Francaise)
Address (1954): 27 Blvd. des Italiens,
Paris
Publication: France d'Abord
Estimated membership (1954): 23,000
B. National Federation of Deportees, Internees,
Resistants, and Patriots
(Federa ion Nationale des Deportes, Internes,
Resistants, Patriotes)
Address: 10 rue Leroux
Paris
Publication: Le Patriote Resistant
8. GERMANY (EAST)
Commit ee of Anti=Fascist Resistance Fighters
(Aussch ss antifaschistischer Widerstandskampfer)
Address (1953): Charlottenstrasse 46,
Berlin
9. GERMANY (WEST)
Associa ion of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime
(Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes)
Address: Roederbergweg 62,
Frankfu t /Main
Publication: Die Tat
There i no organized affiliate of FIR in Greece.
As of 1952 Greece was apparently represented in
exile though the Panhellenic Union of Political
Prisoners located at Ul. Widok 10, Warsaw, Poland.
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Hungarian Association of Fighters for Freedom
(Magyar Szabodsaghorcos Svovtseg)
Address: Zoltan Ucca 16,
Budapest
Estimated Membership (1952): 80, 000-100, 000
12. ISRAEL
Union of Anti-Nazi Fighters
13. ITALY
A. National Association, of Italian Partisans
(Associazione Nazionale Partigiani D'Italia)
Address: Via degli Scipioni 271,
Rome
Publication: Patria Independente (biweekly)
Estimated Membership (1955): 350, 000
B. National Association of Italian
Anti-Fascist Political Persecutees
(Associazione Nazionale Perseguitati
Political Italiani Anti-Fascisti)
Addre s.s : (1955) : Piazza Rondanini 29,
Rome
Publication: L'antifascista (Monthly)
14. LUXEMBOURG
Awakening of the Resistance
(Reveil de la Resistance)
Address: 11 route, de Thionville,
Luxembourg
Estimated Membership (1954) : 90
15. THE NETHERLANDS
United Resistance 1940-45
(Verenigd Verzet 1940-45)
Address (1952): Weesperzijde 2 by,
Amsterdam
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Assoc ation of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy
(Swig ek Bojownikow Wolnosc i Democracje)
Address (1953): Ul. Rutowskiego 15,
Warsaw
Publi ation: Za Wolnosc i Lud
National Federation of Former Anti-Fascist Prisoners
and Deportees.
Address (1952): Str. Biserica Amzei 5-7,
Budapest
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;anized affiliate of the FIR is known to exist in
S.S.R. FIR representation is apparently maintained
h Alexandre GUNDOROV, a Vice President of FIR,
kolai CHIKALENKO, a member of the Bureau.
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