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  1. Domonkos, Miksa (1890 - 1954)

    Engineer, head of the Central Jewish Council’s Technical Department from April 1944, head of the Ghetto Police and one of the leaders of the “large” ghetto in Budapest during the Arrow Cross era. Domonkos was a World War I veteran and captain of the Hungarian army in the interwar period. Between 1945 and 1950 he became chief secretary (főtitkár) of the Pest Israelite Congregation. In 1953 he was arrested by the communist regime on fabricated charges. Although he was released at the end of 1953 he died within months as a result of the torture he endured in prison.

  2. Berend, Béla (1911 - 1987)

    Chief Rabbi of Szigetvár and member of the Second, Third and Fourth Jewish Councils. He was suspected of being an informant for the government. In 1946 he was sentenced to ten years in prison for collaborating with the Hungarian authorities during the Holocaust, but acquitted on appeal in 1947. In 1948, Berend emigrated to the United States where he changed his name to Albert B. Belton.

  3. Εβραϊκή Κοινότητα Καβάλας

    • Jewish Community of Kavala
    • Evraiki Koinotita Kavalas

  4. Εσδράς Μωυσής

    • Esdras Moisis

  5. Αλίκη Αρούχ

    • Aliki Arouh

  6. Ilan Karmi

  7. Υπηρεσία Διαχείρισης Ισραηλιτικών Περιουσιών

    • Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property
    • Ypiresia Diacheirisis Israilitikon Periousion

  8. Baky László

    • Baky, Laszlo
    • Baky, László 1898-1946

    13/09/1898

    29/03/1946

    Hungarian gendarme officer and politician. In 1941 he was one of the founders of the Hungarian National Socialist Party. During the Sztójay Cabinet in 1944 he was political state secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, and as such he was in charge of the police and the gendarmerie. He was directly responsible for the deportation of the Hungarian Jews. He was charged with war crimes and executed in 1946.

  9. Komoly Ottó

    1892

    1945

    Architect, Zionist leader. During the Holocaust, Komoly was among the most prominent Hungarian Jewish leaders to participate in rescuing the Jews of Hungary. Zionist organisations established the so-called Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) in 1942. Komoly, as president of this organisation, smuggled Jews across the border, assisted refugees in Hungary, and made preparations for the self-defence of the Jewish community. Komoly’s rescue action of Jewish children was his most successful achievement. He worked in this a...

  10. Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
    • Evraiko Mouseio Thessalonikis

  11. Vilniaus universitetas

    • Vilnius University

    From 1579 until now.

    Following Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, the university was briefly administered by the Lithuanian authorities (from October 1939), and then after Soviet annexation of Lithuania (June 1940), punctuated by a period of German occupation after German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941–1944), administrated as Vilnius State University by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1945 the Polish community of students and scholars of Stafan Batory University was transferred to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, following the...

  12. Πρωτοδικείο Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Court of First Instance in Thessaloniki
    • Protodikeio Thessalonikis

  13. Υπουργείο Οικονομικών

    • Ministry of Finance
    • Tpourgeio Oikonomikon

  14. Ειδικό Δικαστήριο Δωσιλόγων Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Special Court for Collaborators in Thessaloniki
    • Eidiko Dikastirio Dosilogon Thessalonikis

  15. Seinų apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Seinai County

  16. Aleksandras Lileikis

    Lithuanian Security Police had six regional branches (in Kaunas, Vilnius, Šiauliai, Ukmergė, Marijampolė and Panevėžys. Aleksandras Lileikis (1907-2000) was a chief of Vilnius branch.

  17. Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    • Ypourgeio Exoterikon

  18. Rothenberg, Alois (1894 - ?)

    Born 1894. Rothenberg was an Austrian Zionist and Director of the Palestine Office in Vienna between 1938 and 1940. Rothenberg emigrated in 1940.

  19. Storfer, Berthold (1884 - 1944)

    Born 1884 in Czernowitz. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Storfer was a banker. After 1938 he became head of the Committee for Jewish overseas transports. Storfer organised the emigration of Jews from the German Reich and the "Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia" to Palestine. Storfer was sent to Auschwitz where he was murdered in 1944.

  20. Prochnik, Robert (1915 - 1977)

    Born 1915 in Vienna. Died 1977 in Vienna. Robert Prochnik worked for the Jewish Community from 1938 onwards, working closely together with Benjamin Murmelstein. Prochnik had to work together with the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna and was involved in the transports to the East. In September 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Terezín, where he survived the war. In 1948 he was accused of collaboration with the Nazis, but set free soon afterwards. Prochnik died in 1977.