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  1. Herschel Grynszpan

    • הרשל גרינשפן

    A Polish-German Jew who shot Nazi German foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath at the German Embassy in Paris on November 7, 1938, in protest against the deportation of thousands of Jews of Polish citizenship living in Germany, including his parents. The assassination provided the Nazis with the pretext for the long planned November pogroms against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938, known as “Kristallnacht.”

  4. Mordechai Shenhavi

    • מרדכי שנהבי

    הוגה רעיון יד ושם

  5. Franz Lukas

  6. Rudolf Kloiber

  7. Mencel

  8. Alois Johandl

  9. Karl Horvath

  10. Wilhelm Boger

  11. Fritz Schmidt

  12. Max Kuehnel

    • מקס קינל

    Staff member of the Jewsih section at the State Police Main office in Berlin, interrogated Jews and took part in the deportation process of Jews from Berlin

  13. Zeev Scheck

    • זאב שק

    Leader in "Young Makabi" youth movement in Czechoslovakia

  14. Kurt Engels

    ראש הגסטאפו ב-Izbica בשנים 1940 - 1942, השתתף בגירוש יהודי האזור למחנות ההשמדה Belzec, Sobibor ו-Majdanek

  15. George Rublee

  16. Karl Freiherr von Hirsch

    תעשיין יהודי גרמני

  17. Paul Jordan

  18. Max Milner

  19. Boruch Meister

  20. Ibn Daud