American Jewish Committee

=== The 1930s and 1940s ===
AJC advocated finding places of refuge for Jewish refugees from [[Adolf Hitler]] in the 1930s, but had little success. After World War II broke out in 1939, AJC stressed that the war was for democracy and discouraged emphasis on Hitler's anti-Jewish policies lest a backlash identify it as a "Jewish war" and increase antisemitism in the U.S. When the war ended in 1945, it urged a human rights program upon the [[United Nations]] and proved vital in enlisting the support that made possible the human rights provisions in the UN Charter.{{Citation needed|date=October 2015|reason=for this whole para.}}