B'nai B'rith Europe

[2] Activities of the central B'nai B'rith Europe include co-organizing the European Day of Jewish Culture.

[3] The event was originally a 1996 initiative known as European Jewish Heritage Day and was launched by B'nai B'rith Europe in France .

The lodge's founding president was Just Cohen and the vice-president was Chief Rabbi Max Schornstein.

In 1937, prior to the Holocaust, the Nazi regime ordered the gestapo to raid all B'nai B'rith chapters in Germany.

The raid occurred on April 9, 1937 and resulted in the Nazi regime declaring the dissolution of the organisation in Germany, as well as the confiscation of all B'nai B'rith property.