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  1. Zorin Shalom

    1902

    1974

    Jewish partisan commander (Zorin Unit), escaped from Minsk ghetto.

  2. Zuckerman Yitzhak

    • Zuckerman, Yitzhak, 1915-1981
    • Antek, 1915-1981
    • Cukierman, Icchak, 1915-1981
    • צוקערמאן, יצחק, 1915-1981
    • Zuckerman, Isaac, 1915-1981
    • ...

    13/12/1915

    19/06/1981

    Hero of Jewish armed resistance. One of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  3. Zuskin Veniamin

    • Zuskin, Benjamin
    • Zusḳin, Binyomin 1899-1952
    • Zuskin, Veniamin Lʹvovič 1899-1952
    • Zusḳin, Binyamin 1899-1952
    • Zuskin, Veniamin, 1899-1952
    • ...

    1899

    1952

    Famous actor at the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre.

  4. Zygelbaum Samuel

    1895

    1943

    Bund-activist, left Warsaw in 1940 for New York. Bund-delegate to the Polish National Council in London (1942).

  5. Brandt Karl

    • Brandt, Karl, ca. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl, 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl
    • Brandt, K. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Carl 1904-1948

    08/01/1904

    02/06/1948

    Brandt headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 onwards and was selected as Adolf Hitler's personal physician in August 1934.

  6. Daladier Édouard

    • Daladier, Édouard, 1884-1970
    • Daladʹe, Ė. 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Édouard
    • Daladier, Édouard 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Edouard, 1884-

    18/06/1884

    10/10/1970

    Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.

  7. Demjanjuk John Iwan

    • דמיאניוק, ג'ון, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, Ivan, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, G'ohn, 1920-2012
    • Demjanjuk, Iwan, 1920-2012
    • דמיניוק, ג'ון
    • ...

    03/04/1920

    17/12/2012

    Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced him to death. Demjanjuk appealed the verdict, and in 1993, he was acquitted because...

  8. Gebelev Lievovich Mikhail

    • Gebelev, Mikhail
    • Гебелев, Михаил

    15/10/1905

    15/08/1942

    Commander of the underground forces in ghetto Minsk.

  9. Canaris Wilhelm

    • Canaris, Wilhelm, 1887-1945
    • Kanāriss, Vilhelms, 1887-1945
    • Канарис, Вильгельм, 1887-1945
    • Canaris, Wilhelm
    • Kanaris, Vilʹgelʹm, 1887-1945
    • ...

    01/01/1887

    09/04/1945

    German admiral, and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.

  10. Dannecker Theodor

    • Dannecker, Theodor
    • Dannecker, Theodor, 1913-1945
    • Dannecker, Theo, 1913-1945

    27/03/1913

    10/12/1945

    SS-Hauptsturmführer (1942). 1934 Wachtrupp Columbia-House Berlin, then SS-Wachverband Brandenburg. Since 1937 member of Eichmann's staff in SD-Hauptamt. Sept 1940 Leiter (head) of the Judenreferat for the Befehlshaber (commander) of the Sipo and SD (BdS) Belgium-France. Jan 1943 Sonderkommando Eichmann in Hungary, since Oct 1944 Judenreferent of the BdS Italy. Suicide in US imprisonment.

  11. Hunsche Otto

    • Hunsche, Otto 1912-

    15/09/1911

    Regierungsrat in RSHA. A member of Eichmann's referat IV B 4b in the RSHA. In 1944 participated in Sonderkommando Eichmann which was responsible for the concentration and deportation of the Jews of Hungary.

  12. Weissmandel Michael Dov

    • Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 1904?-1957
    • וייסמנדל, רחמ״ד
    • וויסמאנדל, מיכאל דוב
    • ווייסמאנדל, מיכאל בער, ?1904־1957
    • ווייסמאנדל, חיים מיכאל דוב, 1957־?1904
    • ...

    1903

    1956

    Rabbi in Slovakia. Helped halt the deportation of Slovakian Jews for two years, through the organisation Working Group, who bribed German and Slovakian officials. Created the Europa Plan the rescue European Jews Jews in hte same way. In 1944 broadcast the so called Auschwitz Protocols about the mass exterminations. Escaped from Auschwitz, settled in the United States. \

  13. Черкаська народна районна поліція, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy District People's Police, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska narodna raionna politsiia, m. Cherkasy

  14. Адресне бюро Черкаської української охоронної поліції, м. Черкаси

    • Address bureau of Cherkasy Ukrainian Schutzpolizei, city of Cherkasy
    • Adresne biuro Cherkaskoi ukrainskoi okhoronnoi politsii, m. Cherkasy

  15. Związek Patriotów Polskich

    • Union of Polish Patriots
    • ZPP

    Founded in 1943

    Związek Patriotów Polskich was a pro-communist political organization, founded in the Soviet Union in 1943. Comprised of Polish Communists living in Soviet exile, it was obviously intended to promote Soviet objectives in Poland once the Germans were driven out. The Związek Patriotów Polskich was organized around a new weekly journal, Wolna Polska (Free Poland), and contained articles written by several leading Polish Communists.

  16. Armia Krajowa

    • Heimatarmee
    • AK

    1942-02-14/1945-01-20

    Subordinated to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland) and the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) formed on 1942-02-14 the Armia Krajowa. During the war it became an umbrella organization of resistance groups. Attacks were limited to confiscating supplies, burning food-quota documents, and, perhaps, crippling machinery. This modus operandi denoted the desire of the independentists to avoid German reprisals against the people and the destruction of property which, after all, was Polish and would be used after the ...

  17. Narodowe Siły Zbrojne

    • National Armed Force
    • NSZ

    Founded in 1942

    Narodowe Siły Zbrojne was a right-wing, nationalist Polish resistance group that hated Jews, communists, and liberals. They refused to recognize the authority of the Armia Krajowa and operated independently. During the war, they murdered hundreds of Jewish partisans and others seeking asylum. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne terrorized and killed Jewish survivors after the war.

  18. Черкаська районна управа, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy district board, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska raionna uprava

  19. Видавництво газети "Українська думка" - орган Черкаської районної управи, м. Черкаси

    • Editorial board of the "Ukrainska Dumka" newspaper, an official organ of Cherkasy district board, Cherkasy city
    • Vydavnytstvo hasety "Ukrainska dumka" - orhan Cherkaskoi raionnoi upravy

  20. Управління Служби безпеки України в Черкаській області м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine, city of Cherkasy, Cherkasy region
    • Upravlinnia Sluzhby Bezpeky Ukrainy v Cherkaskii oblasti, m. Cherkasy Cherkaskoi oblasti