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  1. Bernardina Adriana van Moorst

    • Dien van Moorst

  2. Heintje Davids

    • Hendrika David
    • Henriëtte Davids

    13 february 1888 – 14 february 1975

    Dutch variety artist

  3. Joachim Simon (Schuschu)

    • Schuschu

    Joachim Simon (known as Shushu) was a Jewish-German leader of a rescue movement during World War II. Simon, along with Joop Westerweel, led a group called the Westerweel Group.

  4. Carl von Ossietzky

    3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938

    Carl von Ossietzky (3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament.

  5. Joseph Heidingsfeld

    Jewish Refugees in Switzerland

  6. Joseph Kermish

    • Joseph Kermisz

    Dr. Joseph Kermish was born in the town of Zlotniki, in the Tarnopol district, 1907. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and completed his doctoral studies in 1937. He spent the years 1936-1939 preparing a book of bibliographies on the history of Warsaw and the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw, work that was suspended with the outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939, and his draft into the Polish Army. He spent the period of the German occupation, from 1941, in the town of Probuzna, not far from Husiatin. During this period he served as the authorized representative of th...

  7. Heinz Jost

    1904 – 1964

    Commander of Einsatzgruppe A from March to September 1942 SS-Brigadeführer and a Generalmajor (Brigadier General) of Police

  8. Hananel Asher Isakov

    • Hananel, Asher Isakov, 1895-
    • Hananel, Asher Isakov, b. 1895
    • Hananel, Ašer, b. 1895
    • Hananel, Ascher Isakoff, b. 1895

    1885

    1964

    Chief Rabbi of Sofia, contacted Archbishop Stephan, with fellow Chief Rabbi Daniel Zion, to prevent the deportation of 800 Sofian Jews.

  9. Antonescu Ion

    • Antonescu, Ion, 1882-1946
    • Antonescu, Jon 1882-1946
    • Antonescu, Ion. 1882-1946
    • Antonescu-Hitler, ... 1882-1946
    • Antonescu, I. 1882-1946
    • ...

    15/07/1882

    01/06/1946

    Marshal and statesman who became dictator of the pro-German government during World War II. 1940 Prime minister with absolute powers, established a military dictatorship and openly embraced the Axis powers. In the summer of 1941, Antonescu ordMarshal and statesman who became dictator of the pro-German government during World War II. 1940 Prime minister with absolute powers, established a military dictatorship and openly embraced the Axis powers. In the summer of 1941, Antonescu ordered the expulsion of 150,000 Jews from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and the Dorohoi district, survivors of earlier ma...

  10. Rosenbaumová, Kamila (* 28.8.1908)

    Born 1908 in Vienna. Rosenbaumová worked as a children's care worker in the youth home for girls in L 410. Starting in spring 1943 she rehearsed the children's book "Broučci" as a dance theatre together with young children in Terezín. Transported to Terezín in January 1942. Transported to Auschwitz in 1944 and sent to Terezín with an evacuation transport in 1945. Liberated in Terezín in May 1945.

  11. Heydrich Reinhard

    • Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942
    • Geĭdrikh, Reĭngard 1904-1942
    • הידריך, רינהרד
    • Heydrich, Reinhard
    • Heydrich, R. (Reinhard), 1904-1942
    • ...

    07/03/1904

    04/06/1942

    Founder of the SD, 1936 head of the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo), 1939 Head of the RSHA, 1941 appointed by Hermann Göring to prepare a "solution to the Jewish question". Covened the Wannsee conference. 1941 appointed Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, and killed 1942 by the Czech resistance movement.

  12. Neurath Constantin Freiherr von

    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Freiherr Von
    • Neurath, Konstantin, Freiherr von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin ˜vonœ 1873-1956
    • ...

    02/02/1873

    15/08/1956

    German Foreign Minister (1932-1938). Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1943).

  13. Frank Karl Hermann

    • Frank, Karl Hermann
    • Frank, Karl Hermann, 1898-1946
    • Frank, Karl H. 1898-1946
    • Frank.
    • Frank, K. H. 1898-1946
    • ...

    24/01/1898

    22/05/1946

    SS-Gruppenführer. In 1936, deputy of Henlein, in 1938 appointed deputy NSDAP-Gauleiter Sudetengau. From 1939 to 1944 state secretary (Staatssekretär) at the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, at the same time Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer. Executed.

  14. Nicholas Winton

    • Nicholas Wertheimer

    Nicholas Winton was born Nicholas Wertheimer on May 19, 1909, in West Hampstead, England, and baptized as a member of the Anglican Church by decision of his parents who were of German Jewish ancestry. He was a stockbroker by profession. Nicholas Winton organized a rescue operation that brought approximately 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain before the outbreak of World War II.

  15. Adolf Hrubý

    Adolf Hrubý was a Czechoslovak politician and Minister of Agriculture in the government of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia from January 1942 to May 1945.

  17. Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski

    (April 5, 1866–December 17, 1929) was an Croatian nobleman, industrialist, and philanthropist; he was the younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and a member of the prominent Alexander family of Zagreb. He was a well-known economics expert and published a noted article in the "Bankarstvo" magazine in 1924. Between 1905 and 1910, Alexander was the city representative in the Zagreb City Assembly. In 1909 he became the adviser of Franz Joseph I of Austria. Alexander worked in and was a member of more than 60 associations in Croatia. He was the councillor, vice president ,and honorary presid...

  18. Samuel "Sami" David Alexander

    In 1941 during World War II, with the NDH regime in power, Alexander and his wife found refuge at the sanatorium in Klaićeva Street. In 1942, they moved to the sanatorium of Dr. Đuro Vranešić, known for saving 80 Jews, in Zelengaj Street 57. He died there relatively peacefully at the age of 80 in 1943. Alexander was buried in the Mirogoj Cemetery. In their attempt to save themselves from Ustaše and Nazi persecution, members of his family were scattered across the world. Some of them stayed temporarily in Perugia, Italy. His wife and children survived the Holocaust, but many members of the A...

  19. Aleksandar Licht

    Dr. Aleksandar Licht (1884−1948) was an Croatian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia. Licht was born in village Sokolovac, near Koprivnica to a Croatian Jewish family. As a child he moved with his family to Zagreb. Licht was educated in Zagreb where he finished elementary and high school. He graduated as a lawyer at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. In 1909 he was promoted to a Doctor of law at the University of Zagreb. In 1913 he opened a law firm in Zagreb, but in 1914 he was drafted to a Austro-Hungarian Army. Upon completing military service, Licht retu...

  20. Σαμπετάι Τσιμίνο

    • Sabetay Tsimino
    • Sabetai Tsimino

    Sabetay Tsimino (Kavala 1920 2003) was a Sephardic Greek Jew and tobacco merchant in Kavala. He was not deported in 1943, but was forced to work in a labour camp in Belitsa (Bulgaria) by the Bulgarian Occupation authorities in his hometown. After the Second World War he stayed in Kavala, where he worked as merchant and was President of the local Jewish community until his death.