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  1. Samuel Henri Englander

    26 September 1896 - 11 June 1943

    Conductor of the Choir of the Amsterdam Synagoge. Died in Sobibor.

  2. Ans van Dijk

    24 December 1905 – 14 January 1948

    Jewish collaborator of the German occupier who betrayed Jewish citizens. Only female war crimes convict that was sentenced to the death penalty.

  3. Anneke Beekman

  4. Anton Mussert

    • Anton Adriaan Mussert

    11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946

    One of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) and its formal leader. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch fascist before and during World War II. During the war, he was able to keep this position, due to the support he received from the Germans. After the war, he was convicted and executed for high treason.

  5. Franz Anton Stapf

    Photographer - Stapf Bilderdienst

  6. Lin Jaldati

    • Rebekka Brilleslijper

    13 December 1912- 31 August 1988

    Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer. She was a Holocaust survivor, and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. A self-professed socialist, she performed in Yiddish in Russia, China, North Korea and Vietnam from the 1950s to the 1970s

  7. Emanuel Boekman

    August 15, 1889 – May 15, 1940

    Dutch social democratic politician, statistician, demographer and typographer. He is remembered for his activities as a municipal executive board member for education and culture in Amsterdam and advocacy for an active state cultural policy

  8. Julius Streicher

    12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946

    Prominent Nazi.He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine

  9. Walter Bedell Smith

    5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961

    Senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 during World War II. He was Eisenhower's chief-of-staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Western Europe from 1944 through 1945.

  10. Ferdinand aus der Fünten

    • Ferdinand Hugo aus der Fünten

    17 December 1909 – 19 April 1989

    SS-Hauptsturmführer and head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam during the Second World War. He was responsible for the deportations of Jews from the Netherlands to the German concentration camps.

  11. Herman Heijermans

    3 December 1864 – 22 November 1924

    Dutch writer

  12. Hendrik Koot

    5 April 1898 - 14 February 1941

    Dutch Nazi and SS.

  13. Edward John Voûte

    17-9-1887 - 18-6-1950

    Dutch Mayor of Amsterdam 1941-1945

  14. Walther Rathenau

    29 September 1867 – 24 June 1922

    Jewish German Statesman and Foreign Minister

  15. Etty Hillesum

    • Esther Hillesum

    15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943

    Dutch Jewish writer, who wrote diaries and letters (in Westerbork ) about her life, spirituality and the persecution of Jewish citizens. Died in Auschwitz.

  16. David Cohen

    31 December 1882 – 3 September 1967

    Chairman of the Jewish Council Netherlands

  17. Sybren Tulp

    29 march 1891 – 22 october 1942

    Dutch SS and chief-police officer of Amsterdam. Organized and attended personally razzia's against Jewish citizens.

  18. Pieter Menten

    • Pieter Nicolaas Menten

    May 26, 1899 – November 14, 1987

    Pieter Menten was a World War II war criminal, member of the SS.

  19. Abraham Puls

    Dutch busines man who cooperated with the German Occupier. Puls had a moving company, that cleared and took away possessions from 29.000 Jewish houses, including the Achterhuis of Anne Frank.