Various associations and organisations co-exist or co-existed in addition to the official Executive Board. Their purpose is to enable former deportees to keep in touch with each other, perpetuate the memories of the dead and pass on the meaning of their struggle to the living.

- Amicale des Anciens Déportés Politiques du camp de Struthof (dissolved in 1952).

- 1948: Amicale des Anciens internés des camps de Schirmeck et du Struthof, under the direction of M. Oberlin (dissolved around 1955).

- 1950: Amicale des Déportés et Familles de Disparus de Natzweiler-Struthof et ses Kommandos, founded by François Faure, Compagnon de la Libération, NN deportee to KL-Natzweiler. Then the organization was renamed the Amicale nationale des déportés et familles de disparus de Natzweiller-Struthof et ses Kommandos. This group was responsible for the plaque at Rothau railway station and the monument at Père Lachaise. The organisation still exists and publishes a newsletter, KL-Na.

- 1971: International Natzweiler-Struthof Committee, groups together the Belgian, French, Dutch and Norwegian organisations as well as one German comrade. The committee and the chairmen of the other international camp committees were responsible for the European Parliament resolution of 10 February 1993 “on the European and international protection of Nazi concentration camp sites as historic monuments.”

- 1972: Souvenir de la déportation NN, association founded by Guy Quintel and Father Joseph de la Martinière, responsible for the erection of a marker (shaped like a Lorraine cross) in memory of the NN deportation inside Natzweiler camp in 1979. The association publishes a newspaper, Nuit et Brouillard, Organe du Souvenir de la Déportation NN.

• A living official memory
• The executive board
• Former deportees organisations and associations