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  1. Höß Rudolf

    • Höß, Rudolf, 1900-1947
    • Höess, Rudolf
    • Höss, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand.
    • Gëss, Rudol'f.
    • Höss.
    • ...

    25/11/1900

    16/04/1947

    Commander (Kommandant) of Auschwitz.

  2. Hull Cordell

    • Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
    • ハル, コーデル
    • Hull, Cordell

    02/10/1871

    1955

    United States secretary of state from 1933 to 1944. Had limited information about the persecution of the Jews in Germany but declined to intercede in what he regarded as Germany's internal affair. Hull opposed any relaxation of American immigration regulations during the war. Laid the groundwork for a postwar United nations.

  3. Iakova Violeta

    Jewish partisan in Bulgaria, assassinated General Lukov.

  4. Ionchev Slavcho

    Inspector at KEV and special representative, Kavala, Bulgaria.

  5. Jäger Karl

    • Jäger, Karl 1888-1959
    • Jaeger, Karl

    20/09/1888

    22/06/1959

    SS-Standartenführer. Head of the SD-Abschnitt Münster; Commander of Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania; Chief of police (Polizeipräsident) in Reichenberg (Sudetenland).

  6. Jarblum Marc

    • Jarblum, Marc, 1887-1972
    • יארבלום, מרדכי
    • יארבלום, מ.
    • Jarblum, Mordʹkhai, 1887-1972
    • Jarblum, M.
    • ...

    1887

    1972

    Socialist president of the Zionist Organization of France and head of the Fédération des Sociétés juives de France (FSJF), one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in rance, refuged in Geneve, Switzerland, in 1943.

  7. Jardin Jean

    1904

    1976

    Politician. Senior official in the Vichy Government, director of Pierre Laval's cabinet, 1942 - 1943.

  8. Jeckeln Friedrich

    • Jeckeln, Friedrich, 1895-1946
    • Jeckeln, Friedrich

    02/02/1895

    03/02/1946

    SS-Obergruppenführer. 1933 Chief of police in Brunswick, 1940 HSSPF West in Düsseldorf; 1941 HSSPF of "Heeresgebiet Süd" (Ukraine); 1941 HSSPF Nord und Ostland. Responsible i.A. for mass murders of Jews in Kamenez-Podolsk, Babi Jar and the Riga Ghetto.

  9. Jost Heinz

    09/07/1904

    12/11/1964

    SS-Brigadeführer (1939), Generalmajor of the Police. Head of RSHA-Amt VI (SD Ausland); March - September 1942 Commander of Einsatzgruppe A; afterwards Chef (head) of the Zivilverwaltung (civil administration) of the Regierungsbezirk (governmental district) Zichenau.

  10. Kahn Franz

    1895

    1944

    Zionist leader in Czechoslovakia, director of the bureau of the Zionist Congress, organised most Zionist Congresses between the wars. Was deported from Terezin ghetto camp to Auschwitz where he was killed.

  11. Kaindl Anton

    • Kaindl, Anton, 1902-
    • Kaindl, Anton

    14/07/1902

    1948

    SS-Standartenführer. Commander (Lagerkommandant) of Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  12. Kalitzin Iaroslav

    KEV raider.

  13. Kaltenbrunner Ernst

    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1903-1946
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1902-1946

    04/10/1903

    16/10/1946

    Head of the SS and police in Austria. Since 01.01.1943, head of RSHA and of Sipo and SD. Sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

  14. Kapel Shmuel René

    • Kapel, René Samuel
    • Kapel, Shmuel René
    • Ḳapel, Shemuʾel Reneh
    • Kapel, Samuel René
    • קפל, שמואל רנה
    • ...

    1907

    1994

    French Rabbi during WWII, one of the chaplains for the internment camps in South France. Holocaust survivor, France. Israeli Ambassador to Greece and Latin American countries.

  15. Kaplan Jacob

    • Kaplan, Jacob, 1895-1994
    • Kaplan.
    • קפלן, יעקב 1895-1994
    • Kaplan, Jacob

    1895

    1994

    Rabbi, after the war Chief Rabbi of Paris (1950 - 1955) and later Chief Rabbi of France (1955 - 1981).

  16. Kaplan Joseph

    1913

    1943

    Resistance fighter.

  17. Katzmann Friedrich Fritz

    06/05/1906

    19/09/1957

    SS-Gruppenführer. SSPF (SS- und Polizeiführer) of Distrikt Radom (November 1939 - Juli 1941); SS- und Polizeiführer von Galizien (1941 - April 1943); Head of SS-Oberabschnitt Weichsel/Danzig-Westpreußen (April 1943 - 8 May 1945).

  18. Keitel Wilhelm

    22/09/1882

    16/10/1946

    Head of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the supreme command of the German army (since 04 Feb 1938).

  19. Killinger Manfred von

    14/07/1886

    02/09/1944

    SA-Obergruppenführer. Member of the NSDAP since 1927, 1932 Inspekteur (Chief of Staff) of the SA, 1933 Ministerpräsident of Saxony, 1935 Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office), member of the Volksgerichtshof (Nazi "People's Court"). 1936 Generalkonsul (consul general) in San Francisco, summer 1939 Gesandter (envoy) in Pressburg (Bratislava), 1941-1944 responsible for "Judenangelegenheiten" ("Jewish affairs"). K. commited suicide when the Red Army marched into Bucharest.

  20. Kiril Patriarch of Bulgaria

    • Kiril, patriarh b''lgarski
    • Akademik Kiril, patriarh b''lgarski
    • Kiril patriarche de Sofia 1901-1971
    • Кирил patriarche de Sofia 1901-1971
    • Kiril Konstantin Markov 1901-1971
    • ...

    1901

    1971

    Patriarch of the Bulgarian orthodox church 1953-1971.