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  1. Klarsfeld Beate

    • Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939-....
    • Klarsfeld, Beate
    • קלארספלד, ביאטה, ־1939

    13/02/1939

    Journalist. Nazi hunter.

  2. Klarsfeld Serge

    • Klarsfeld, Serge, 1935-....
    • Klarsfeld, Serge

    17/09/1935

    Nazi hunter.

  3. Klein Samy

    25/01/1915

    07/07/1944

    Rabbi and French resistance.

  4. Klingelhöfer Woldemar

    • Klingelhöfer, Woldemar

    04/04/1900

    SS-Sturmbannführer. 1939 SS/SD, June 1941 Sonderkommando 7b, July 1941 "Vorkommando Moskau", Sonderkommando of Einsatzgruppe B, Sept 1941 part of the group of commanders of Einsatzgruppe B. Sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, released in Landsberg 12 Dec 1956.

  5. Klopfer Gerhard

    • Klopfer, Gerhard, 1905-1987
    • Klopfer, Gerhard

    18/02/1905

    29/01/1987

    Staatssekretär, Deputy of Bormann in the Polizeikanzlei (Nov 1942).

  6. Knochen Helmut

    • Knochen, Helmut
    • Knochen, Helmuth 1910-2003
    • Knochen, Helmut, 1910-2003

    14/03/1910

    Head (Befehlshaber) of the Sipo and SD in France.

  7. Koch Erich

    • Koch, Erich, 1896-1986
    • Koch, Erich
    • Koch, Erich. (1896-1959).

    19/06/1896

    12/11/1986

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in East-Prussia, 1941 appointed Reichskommissar of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine and also 1941 bis 1945 Chef der Zivilverwaltung of the Bezirk Bialystok in occupied Poland.

  8. Koch Karl Otto

    • Koch, Karl-Otto
    • Koch, Karl 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto, 1897-1945

    02/08/1897

    05/04/1945

    KZ-Kommandant, SS-Standartenführer. Since 1935 head of the Wachtrupp of Esterwegen concentration camp, commander (Kommandant) of Columbiahaus in Berlin, since April 1936 commander of Esterwegen concentration camp. Since Aug 1, 1937 commander of Buchenwald, January to August 1942 commander of Lublin-Majdanek death camp.

  9. Koppe Wilhelm

    • Koppe, Wilhelm, 1896-1975
    • Koppe, Wilhelm

    15/06/1896

    02/07/1975

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1942), General der Polizei. October 1939 appointed HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer) in the Warthegau. Responsible i.A. for the deportations of Jews from the Lodz / Litzmannstadt Ghetto.

  10. Korczak Janusz

    • Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942
    • Goldszmit, Henryk, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorts'aḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • קורצאק, יאנוש, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorṭshaḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • ...

    22/07/1878

    1942

    Jewish educator, author, doctor, refused protection from the Judenrat, August 1942 deported from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, together with the 200 children in his care.

  11. Koretz Zvi

    • Koretz, Zvi ca. 20.Jh.

    1894

    1945

    Rabbi in Greece. Bergen-Belsen, Terezin, died 3 months after liberation.

  12. Kovpak Sidor

    • Kovpak, S. A. 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sydir Artemovych, 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sidor Artemʹevich, 1887-1967
    • Kowpak, A. S.
    • Kovpak, S.
    • ...

    07/06/1887

    11/12/1967

    Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine.

  13. Kramer Josef

    • Kramer, Josef, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Josef

    10/11/1906

    13/12/1945

    KZ-Kommandant and SS-Hauptsturmführer. Since 1934 in Dachau, 1937/1938 in Sachsenhausen, 1939 in Mauthausen, May 1940 in Auschwitz, April 1941 Schutzhaftlagerführer , Oct 1942 Kommandant in Natzweiler, since May 1944 Kommandant in Auschwitz-Birkenau, since 1 Dec 1944 in Bergen-Belsen. Sentenced to death in Belsen Trial, executed.

  14. Krausz Miklós

    01/01/1908

    1985

    Hungarian Jewish Zionist activist. In 1932 he was appointed as the general secretary of the "Mizrahi" and “Hapoel Hamizrahi” organisations in Hungary. In 1934 he was the secretary of the Eretz-Israel Office in Budapest and from 1938 to 1946 its manager. In April 1944, a few weeks after the German invasion of Hungary, all the 7,800 certificates that were not used by Jews, who were deported or exterminated by the Nazis all over Europe, arrived. But after Romania switched alliance to the Russians (23.8.1944) the way to Palestine was blocked. The Swiss consul, Carl Lutz obtained from the Hungar...

  15. Kritzinger Friedrich

    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm 1890-1947

    14/04/1890

    31/10/1947

    1938 Ministerialdirektor in the Reichskanzlei, since 1942 Staatssekretär (second in command after Lammers). Participant of the Wannsee Conference. Internment 1945/46, released due to illness, died in hospital.

  16. Kroeger Erhard

    • Kroeger, Erhard, 1905-1987
    • Kroeger, Erhard.
    • Kroeger, Erhard, 1905-
    • Kroeger, Erhard, b. 1905

    24/03/1905

    SS-Oberführer (1941). Head of Einsatzkommando 6 since Nov 1941.

  17. Krüger Friedrich-Wilhelm

    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilehlm, 1894-1957
    • Krüger, Friedrich-Wilhelm 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich W. 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • ...

    08/05/1894

    10/05/1945

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1935), General der Polizei (General of Police). 1935 in the Stab Reichsführer SS, 1936 SS-Hauptamt. Since Oct 1939 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Ost in Krakow, in addition since May 1942 "Staatssekretär für das Sicherheitswesen im Generalgouvernement". Commanded what was later called the "Blutsonntag von Stanislau" (Bloody Sunday of Stanislawów) on 12 Oct 1941, a mass killing with 12,000 Jews shot. Suicide.

  18. Krumey Hermann

    • Krumey, Hermann, 1905-

    18/04/1905

    27/11/1981

    SS-Obersturmbannführer, Leader of the Umwandererzentrale Lodz (1940-1944), 1944 appointed Kommandoführer of the Sonderkommandos in Budapest.

  19. Kurtev Vladimir

    19/10/1888

    07/06/1946

    Righteous Among the Nations

  20. Kvitko Leib

    • Kvitko, Leib, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, Leyb, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, L., 1890-1952
    • קוויטקאָ, לייב, 1890-1952
    • Kwiṭko, Leib 1890-1952
    • ...

    01/01/1890

    12/08/1952

    Yiddish poet and novelist.