[2] The Lithuanian Red Aid movement raised funds and donated money, food, clothes and shoes to imprisoned communists.
[3] In 1925, the Communist Party of Lithuania took measures to strengthen and expand activities of the Red Aid.
[4] It was chaired by Germaine Geelens-Smolski (Žermena Smolskienė; widow of Jurgis Smolskis) and A. Šuvalienė.
[3] With the new popular front line of the communist movement that emerged from the 7th World Congress of the Comintern in 1935, the organization grew in influence.
[2] The Lithuanian Red Aid was the most prominent pro-communist organization in Lithuania as of the second half of the 1930s.
[6] In 1927, the organization began publishing the underground journal Raudonoji pagalba [lt] ('Red Aid'), but publication was promptly discontinued.
[7] The editorial team of the publication consisted of B. Gensas, Barelis Fridmanas, Benjaminas Fogelevičius, Judita Komodaitė, Zalmenas Šapira, Irena Trečiokaitė-Žebenkienė and Feiga Zaraitė.
[7] Between 1937 and 1940, the organization published 17 issues of another underground journal Į pagalbą [lt] ('To Aid') from Kaunas, with the editorial team consisting of Berelis Fridmanas, Dveira Berzakaitė, Aleksas Maginskas.