 The MRAP was created on May 22, 1949, around former MNCR members and various personalities, such as the painter Marc Chagall or the Social Catholic leader Marc Sangnier.It took the name of "Mouvement contre le racisme, l'antisémitisme et pour la paix" (Movement Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and for Peace) in a period during which the dominant questions were neo-nazism, anti-Semitism and the Cold War.On January 6, 1956, at the Hôtel Lutetia in Paris, the MRAP (NGO) was awarded to Jules Isaac.