 Initially many Jews served in the Chetniks, a number of whom were former prisoners of concentration camps, and a Jewish Patriotic Brigade existed.A Jew served as Mihailović's aide-de-camp and they had their own newspaper named "Židov".Jews were among the Chetniks during the first months of occupied Yugoslavia, but as Chetnik resistance ceased and collaboration increased the Jews left the Chetniks in favor of the Partisans and on 2 January 1943 a directive from Mihailović stated