Central Committee of the Liberated Jews

The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews (ZK) was an organization which represented Jewish displaced persons in the American Zone of the post-World War II Germany, during 1945–1950.

[1] The organization was founded on July 1, 1945, through the efforts of Dr. Zalman Grinberg, former director of the Kovno ghetto hospital; rabbi Abraham Klausner, a chaplain of the US Army; and others.

[2] Abraham Treger served as the committee's chairman between 1946 and 1948 and then emigrated with his wife Ida to Haifa, Israel.

In the American sector, the Jewish community across many Displaced Persons camps organized itself rapidly for purposes of representation and advocacy.

[citation needed] The Central Committee declared its dissolution on December 17, 1950, at its headquarters, the Deutsches Museum in Munich.