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  1. Sztehlo Gábor

    • Sztehló, Gàbor, 1909-1974
    • Sztehlo, Gábor
    • Sztehlo, Gabriel, 1909-1974

    25/09/1909

    28/05/1974

    Lutheran pastor in Budapest. In co-opration with the Calvinist "Good Shepard Association" he saved many Jewish children during the Holocaust. Organised 32 children's hospices. After the war he established a children home (Gandiopolis) for the orphans. Righteous amongst the Nations (1972).

  2. Terboven Josef

    23/05/1898

    11/05/1945

    Nazi Reich Commissar in occupied Norway (1940-45).

  3. Théas Pierre-Marie

    • Théas, Pierre-Marie (1894-1977).
    • Théas, Piotr-Maria.
    • Théas, Pierre 1897-1977
    • Théas, Pierre Marie
    • Théas.
    • ...

    14/09/1894

    03/04/1977

    Roman catholic bishop. Condemned the Nazi deportation of Jews in the summer of 1942. Arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. Righteous Among the Nations.

  4. Thierack Otto Georg

    • Thierack, Otto Georg, 1889-1946
    • Thierack, Otto Georg

    19/04/1889

    26/08/1946

    President of the Volksgericht (1936-1942) and Reich Minister of Justice (1942-1945).

  5. Todt Fritz

    • Todt, Fritz, 1891-1942
    • Todt, Fritz
    • Todt.
    • Todt, Fritz (German engineer and architect, 1891-1942)
    • Fritz Todt

    04/09/1891

    08/02/1942

    Famous roadbuilder, creator of Autobahnen. Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions (1940-1942).

  6. Veesenmayer Edmund

    • Veesenmayer, Edmund, 1904-1977
    • Veesenmayer, Edmund

    12/11/1904

    24/12/1977

    NS-politician and officer. Important role in the persecution and murder of Croatian and Serbian Jews. 1944 representative of the Reich to Hungary.

  7. Veil Simone

    • Veil, Simone, 1927-....
    • Veil, Simone
    • Veil, Simone (French politician, born 1927)
    • Simone Veil
    • Jacob, Simone 1927- Frueherer Name
    • ...

    1927

    French-Jewish lawyer, politician and Auschwitz-survivor. Elected minister of health in 1974 and president of the Council of Europe in 1979.

  8. Velkov Zahari

    Headed the operation to gather and deport the Jews of Macedonia.

  9. Vlasov Andrey Andreyevich

    16/02/1901

    02/08/1946

    Red-Army general, 1942- collaborated with Nazi Germany.

  10. Wagner Robert

    • Wagner, Robert, 1895-1946
    • Backfisch, Robert Heinrich, 1895-1946
    • Wagner, Robert

    13/10/1895

    14/08/1946

    Gauleiter of Alcace-Baden. Carried out the deportation of 6500 Jews from Gaue of Baden and Saarpflaz. One of Hitler's earliest followers.

  11. Wasser Bluma

    1912

    1990

    Survivor, member of the underground Oyneg Shabbos Archive in the Warsaw ghetto.

  12. Wasser Hersz

    1912

    1981

    Survivor, secretary of the underground Oyneg Shabbos Archive in the Warsaw ghetto.

  13. Weizsäcker Ernst Baron Von

    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von (1882-1951).
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 1882-1951
    • Von Weizsäcker, Ernst, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst Heinrich, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • ...

    12/05/1882

    04/08/1951

    1938-1943, State Secretary at the Foreign Office 1943-1945 German Ambassador to the Holy See.

  14. Wilner Izrael Chaim

    1917

    1943

    Jewish resistance fighter. One of the founders of ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organisation), a liason between Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) and Polish Home Army.

  15. Wirth Christian

    • Wirth, Christian, 1885-1944
    • Wirth, Christian

    24/11/1885

    26/05/1944

    SS Major and head of the death camps organisation in Poland (1942-43). One of the leaders of Aktion T4 (Euthanasia), first commander of Belzec eath camp.

  16. Wisliceny Dieter

    • Wisliceny, Dieter, 1911-
    • Wisliceny, Dieter, 1911-1948
    • Wisliceny, Dieter

    13/01/1911

    27/02/1948

    SS Major, Eichmann's deputy and "deportation expert". Responsible for mass deportation and murder of Jews from Slovakia, Greece and Hungary.

  17. Wöhrn Fritz

    12/03/1905

    1940- as specialist (Mischlingfragen) at Judenreferat.

  18. Yerushalmi Eliezer

    • Yerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • Jerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר
    • Yerushalmi, A., 1900-1962
    • ...

    Member of "the delegation" in Siaulilai ghetto (Lithuania). Kept a diary giving an account of events in the ghetto.

  19. Zapp Paul

    • Zapp, Paul 1904-

    18/04/1904

    1941-42 Commander of Sonderkommando 11a, commander of security police in Simferopol.

  20. Zöpf Wilhelm

    11/03/1908

    Member of Eichmann's Referat IV B4. 1941-44 Officer of Sicherheitspolizei and SD in The Hague.