German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews
The German Committee for the Freeing of Russian Jews was created in August 1914 by Max Bodenheimer with Franz Oppenheimer, Adolf Friedman and Leo Motzkin to lobby for the socio-political liberation of Jewish people living in the Russian Empire and ensure their protection from pogroms. In November 1914 it was renamed the Committee for the East.
The Committee was initially supported by the German Empire but as no Jewish insurrection arose against the Russians the Germans soon lost interest
