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  1. Дніпропетровська міська управа, м. Дніпропетровськ.

    • Dnipropetrovsk Town Administration, town of Dnipropetrovsk

  2. Υπηρεσία Διαχειρίσεως Ανταλλαξίμων Περιουσιών

    • Service of the Exchangeable Properties
    • Ypiresia Diaheiriseos Antallaximon Periousion

  3. Υποθηκοφυλακείο Δράμας

    • Land Registry Office in Drama
    • Ypothikofylakeio Dramas

  4. Κεντρικό Ισραηλιτικό Συμβούλιο της Ελλάδος

    • Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
    • Kentriko Israilitiko Symvoulio tis Ellados

  5. Οργανισμός Περιθάλψεως και Αποκαταστάσεως Ισραηλιτών Ελλάδος

    • Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews
    • Organismos perithalpseos kai Apokatastaseos Israiliton Ellados

  6. 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.

  7. Αρών Τσιμίνο

    • Aron Tsimino
    • Aron Tsimino

    Aron Tsimino was born in Serres (Greece) in late 19th century and died in Kavala (Greece) in the decade of 1960. He was a well-known tobacco merchant in the first half of the 20th century in Kavala. He was not deported in 1943, as he had been expelled by the Bulgarians in 1941, after which he had arrived in Athens and was given a Christian identity card by the Police Chief Angelos Evert.

  8. Vajna Gábor

    04/11/1891

    12/03/1946

    Army officer and politician, member of the Arrow Cross Party. Gestapo agent. Close associate to Ferenc Szalasi. Interior Minister from 1944. Found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  9. Szálasi Ferenc

    • Szálasi, Ferenc 1897-1946
    • Szálasi, Ferenc, 1897-1946
    • Ferenc, Szálasi 1897-1946
    • Szalasi, Ferenc

    01/06/1897

    12/03/1946

    Founder and leader of the Arrow Cross Party, the most popular extreme right wing movement in Hungary before and during WWII. Following Regent Horthy's failed attempt to leave war, Szálasi assumed power with German support and became Prime Minister of Hungary (15 October, 1944-28 March 1945) as well as the head of state ("Leader of the Nation"). He was found guilty of war crimes and executed in 1946.

  10. Hain Péter

    31/05/1895

    27/06/1946

    Police officer, personal detective of the regent Miklós. After the German occupation he became the leader of the State Security Surveillance (Állambiztonsági Rendészet), which became notorious under the name "Hungarian Gestapo" because of its cruel interrogation methods. After the war he was tried and executed.

  11. Külföldieket Ellenőrző Országos Központi Hatóság

    • Central National Authority for Controlling Foreigners
    • KEOKH

    KEOKH was originally established in 1930 and started to operate in 1931. It exercised the rights of the Minister of the Interior in relation to non-citizens residing in Hungary. In summer 1941 the KEOKH was one of the initiator and executor of the Kamenets-Podolski deportation.

  12. Ministerstvo sociální péče, Praha

    • Ministry of Social Welfare

  13. Stern, Samu (1874 - 1946)

    Banker, Jewish community leader, president of the Jewish Council throughout its entire existence. Stern’s started his career as a wholesale food distributor, later he became the chief executive of one of Hungary’s largest financial institutions. He became involved in Jewish community life in the interwar period. In 1929, he was elected president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and in 1932 of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Stern was appointed head of the Jewish Council by the Nazis. He led the organisation until the Arrow...

  14. Wilhelm, Károly (1886 - 1951)

    Lawyer, Jewish community leader, member of the First, Second and Third Jewish Council. After graduation, he worked for the Budapest Stock Exchange and various large industrial companies. In 1941 he was appointed member of the governing committee (választmány) of the Neologue Pest Israelite Congregation. In 1944, as member of President Samu Stern’s inner circle, he belonged to the Jewish Council’s informal leadership. After the war he became director-in-chief of the Hungarian Sugar Industry Trust. In 1948 he left Hungary and settled in Switzerland, where he died in 1951.

  15. Szegő, Miklós (1884 - 1945)

    Jewish community leader, member of the Fourth Jewish Council. He was vice president, and as of 1939, president of the Neologue Székesfehérvár Israelite Congregation (Székesfehérvári Izraelita Hitközség). On January 15, 1945 he was murdered by Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest.

  16. Pető, Ernő (1882 - 1960s)

    Lawyer, Jewish community leader, member of the First, Second and Third Jewish Council. He trained as a lawyer in Budapest and worked as an attorney. He was involved in the community work of the Pest Israelite Congregation, of which he was appointed vice president in 1941. In 1944, as a member of President Samu Stern’s inner circle, he belonged to the Jewish Council’s informal leadership. In 1955 he emigrated to Brazil, where he died in the 1960s.

  17. Munkácsi, Ernő (1896 - 1950)

    Lawyer, publicist, legal scholar, high-ranking official of Jewish Council. He worked for the Pest Israelite Congregation from the early 1920s, first as a secretary (titkár), then as legal representative (ügyész), later as chief secretary (főtitkár). Between 1934 and 1942 he was head of the Hungarian Jewish Museum (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum). After the war he became the Executive Director (ügyvezető igazgató) of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites.

  18. Stöckler, Lajos (1897 - 1960)

    Industrialist, member of the Third and Fourth Jewish Councils. During the Szálasi regime, he became de facto head of the Council and one of the leaders of the “large” ghetto of Budapest. After the war, he became President of the Pest Israelite Congregation and the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. In 1950, Stöckler was appointed head of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites (Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete), the unified organisation of Hungarian Jewish communities forcefully set up by the communist regime. In January 1953, he was arrested on fabricated charges of...

  19. Kahan-Frankl, Samu (1890 - 1970)

    Orthodox rabbi, head of the Central Office of the Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Denomination of Hungary, and member of the First and Second Jewish Council. In the summer of 1944, he resigned from his position and went into hiding. After the war he became the head of the national Orthodox organisation again. He left Hungary in 1950 – first emigrating to Israel, then to the US.

  20. Freudiger, Fülöp (Pinchas) (1900 - 1976)

    Factory owner, member of the First and Second Jewish Councils. As of 1939, he was president of the Budapest Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Congregation. In early August 1944 he escaped with his family to Romania. After the war he lived in Israel where he testified at the Eichmann trial in 1961.