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  1. Abel Herzberg

    • Abel Jacob Herzberg

    17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989

    Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer, writer and poet. He wrote many plays and novels, focused mainly on Biblical characters. His works include 'Tweestromenland", "Kroniek der Jodenvervolging", and "Om een lepel soep". Herzberg was a prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 11 January 1944 to 10 April 1945.

  2. Albert Einstein

    14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955

  3. Walter Süskind

    1906-10-29 - 1945-02-28

    Worked at the Hollandsche Schouwburg, deportation place for Dutch Jews. Helped to escape around 600 Jewish children from the nearby creche.

  4. Bernardina Adriana van Moorst

    • Dien van Moorst

  5. Heintje Davids

    • Hendrika David
    • Henriëtte Davids

    13 february 1888 – 14 february 1975

    Dutch variety artist

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Joseph Heidingsfeld

    Jewish Refugees in Switzerland

  9. 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...

  10. Heinz Jost

    1904 – 1964

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

  11. U.S. Army

    • Amerikaanse Strijdkrachten
    • United States Army

  12. Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij (SDAP)

    • SDAP

    26 August 1894

    Socialist Party in the Netherlands

  13. ANWB

    • Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB

    1 july 1883 -

  14. Prinses Irene Brigade

    • Princess Irene Brigade
    • PIB
    • Irene Brigade

  15. Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingen (NVV)

    • NVV

    1 january 1906 - 1977 (merged into broader labour unions)

    Collaborated with German Occupation and was forbidden from 1942

  16. Weerbaarheidsafdeling (WA)

    • WA

  17. UN - United Nations

    • UN
    • United Nations - UN

    From 24/10/1945 until the present.

  19. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

    • YIVO

    From 1925 to the present

    In 1925, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in Vilna (Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania), by key European intellectuals, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, to record the history and pioneer in the critical study of the language, literature and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe. From its inception, YIVO was deeply concerned that the language and culture of East European Jewry were undergoing radical change in a rapidly modernizing world. YIVO's founders were tireless in collecting the documents and archival records of Jewish communities across Eastern Europe...

  20. World Zionist Congress

    • הקונגרס הציוני העולמי

    From 1897 until the present.

    The Zionist Congress is the supreme institution and legislature of the World Zionist Organization (WZO). The WZO was founded at the First Zionist Congress (1897) as part of the first approved Zionist program, known as the Basel Program.