After Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, a people’s assembly on the air was organized under the slogan of Soviet Jews’ unity with "their Jewish brethren" around the world. The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee first met in Kuybyshev, where some of the institutions of state had moved when the German army advanced toward Moscow. The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was one of a set of anti-Fascist committees that operated under the Ministry of Propaganda. The committee urged world Jewry, especially that in the United States, to mobilize for the anti-Fascist struggle. Its communiqués made abundant use of Jewish motifs, symbols, and personalities’ names. The committee presidium was headed by some 20 famous Soviet Jews from all walks of life.
