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  1. Begma Vasiliy

    01/01/1906

    12/08/1965

    Communist. One of the leaders of the partisan/underground movement in Ukraine during WWII.

  2. Belev Alexander

    07/07/1900

    09/09/1944

    Commissar of Jewish affairs. Lawyer. Leader of the antisemitic group Ratnitsi Napreduka na Bulgarshtinata. Responsible for plans for the deportation of Bulgarian Jews and Jews in Bulgarian occupied Greece and Yugoslavia.

  3. Benes Edvard

    • Beneš, Edvard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Eduard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edward, 1884-1948
    • Bénès, Edouard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edvard, Pres. Czechoslovak Republic, 1884-1948
    • ...

    28/05/1884

    03/09/1948

    Czech and Czechoslovak politician, diplomat, president in 1935-48, president of the exile government in London during the war.

  4. Beregfy Károly

    12/02/1888

    12/03/1946

    Hungarian military officer and politician. Minister of Defence in the Szálasi Cabinet in 1944-1945. In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  5. Berger Gottlob

    • Berger, Gottlob, 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob Christian 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob
    • Berger, Gotlob, 1896-1975

    16/07/1896

    05/01/1975

    SS-Obergruppenführer, General der Waffen-SS, head of the SS-Hauptamt.

  6. Berman Léon

    • Berman, Léon

    07/05/1892

    31/10/1943

    Rabbi of Lille 1936-1939 and historian.

  7. Bernheim André

    • Bernheim, André, 1877-1963

    25/10/1877

    02/12/1963

    Doctor. Vice president of Consistoire central. Collector of Jewish art.

  8. Biberstein Ernst

    • Biberstein, Ernst
    • Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski-Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986

    05/02/1899

    08/12/1986

    Commander of Einsatzkommando 6, Christian theologian by profession, SS-Sturmbannführer (1939).

  9. Biebow Hans

    • Biebow, Hans
    • Biebow, Hans, 1902-1947

    18/12/1902

    23/06/1947

    Leiter (Head) of the Ghettoverwaltung (ghetto administration) Lodz. Organiser of deportations from Lodz to the extermination camp Chelmno. Sentenced to death 30.04.1947 in Poland.

  10. Bierkamp Walther

    17/12/1901

    15/05/1945

    SS-Brigadeführer (1944), Generalmajor of the police, Head of Einsatzgruppe D (Südrussland), Befehlshaber of the Sipo and SD Krakau (Kraków), suicide.

  11. Bischoff Helmut

    01/03/1908

    SS-Obersturmbannführer, Oberregierungsrat. Head of various Gestapo stations, head of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe IV in occupied Poland, army commissioner (Abwehrbeauftragter) for production of V2 rockets in KZ Mittelbau-Dora.

  12. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    13/08/1894

    07/06/1951

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

  13. Blum Abraham

    • Blum, Abrasza (1905-1943).
    • Blum, Abrasha.
    • Blum, Abraham.
    • Blum, Abraham
    • Blum, Abrasza (1905-1943).
    • ...

    1905

    1943

    Leader of the Bund, killed by the Gestapo after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  14. Blume Walter

    23/07/1906

    13/11/1974

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), Head of Sonderkommando 7a. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial in 1948 but released in 1951.

  15. Blumental Nachman

    • Blumental, Nachman 1905-1983
    • Blumental Naḥman 1905-1983
    • בלומענטאל נחמן 1905-1983
    • בלומנטל נחמן 1905-1983
    • Blwmenṭal Naḥman 1905-1983
    • ...

    1905

    1983

    Co-founder of the Jewish Historical Committee (Żydowska Komisja Historyczna), a Holocaust research body organized in Lublin in August 1944. In December 1944, the commission became an agency of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) and was renamed the Central Jewish Historical Commission (Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna). Director (1947-48) of the successor, the Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny; ŻIH), research institute, archive, library, and museum in Warsaw.

  16. Böhme Horst

    24/08/1909

    10/04/1945

    SS-Oberführer. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Prague, responsible for the eradication of Lidice. Appointed Polizeiattache in Bucharest in September 1942. January to August 1943 head of Einsatzgruppe B, then head of Einsatzgruppe C until March 1944, since August 1944 again head of Einsatzgruppe B. Declared dead in 1954.

  17. Boßhammer Friedrich

    • Boßhammer, Friedrich 1906-1972
    • Boßhammer, Friedrich Robert 1906-1972

    20/12/1906

    17/12/1972

    SS-Sturmbannführer (1943), Regierungsrat. Judenreferent in Italy, helped organise persecutions and deportations.

  18. Böttcher Herbert

    24/04/1907

    12/06/1950

    SS-Brigadeführer (1944), Since 28.04.1942 SS- and Polizeiführer District Radom, deportation of more than 300 000 Jews to Treblinka. Sentenced to death 18.06.1949 in Radom, Hinrichtung 1950 in Radom.

  19. Bouhler Philipp

    • Bouhler, Philipp, 1899-1945
    • Būlers, Filips, 1899-1945
    • Bouhler, Philipp

    11/09/1899

    19/05/1945

    Euthanasiebevollmächtigter Hitlers (1939). Suicide.

  20. Bousquet René

    • Bousquet, René, 1909-1993
    • Bousquet, Rene

    1909

    1993

    Secretaire general de la Police, Vichy, 1942 - 1943. B. left France in 1944 and pretended to have been deported.