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  1. Черкаська біржа праці, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy labour registry office, Cherkasy city
    • Cherkaska birzha pratsi, m. Cherkasy

  2. people's court

    The twenty-four regional courts in post–World War II Hungary set up in 1945 primarily for the investigation of war crimes. The members of the people’s courts were predominantly political delegates and generally lacked law degrees. About sixty thousand people were tried in the people’s courts in the postwar years, and roughly twenty-seven thousand were found guilty. Of these, 477 people were sentenced to death, and 189 were actually executed.

  3. U.S. Department of State

  4. Foreign Office

  5. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Kriminalinės policijos Alytaus rajonas

    • Security Police and SD Commander of the Lithuanian Criminal Police in Alytus district

    Security Police and SD Commander of the Lithuanian Criminal Police in Alytus district was established in 1941 since the begining of the WWII and was in charge of arrests of communists, Jews and all suspected and criminal residents.

  6. Vilniaus žydų tikybinė bendruomenė

    • Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Wilnie
    • Vilnius Jewish Religious Community

    Vilnius Jewish Religious Community was established in 1919. The activities of the community were controlled by the municipality of Vilnius city, Board of Vilnius Voivodeship and the Ministery of Religious and Public Education of the Republic of Poland. On 16 September 1940 community was closed by the Soviet Authorities.

  7. Γεώργιος Καραμάνης

    • Georgios Karamanis

    A famous doctor (1873-1964) in Greece.

  8. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Vašingtone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC

    Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC was established in August 1924.

  9. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Londone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in London

    Lithuanian Embassy in London was established in January 1919. In the year of WWII tried to spead information all over the world about the situation in Lithuania.

  10. Žydų mokslo institutas (JIVO) Vilniuje

    • Žydowski instytut naukowy (JIWO) w Wilnie
    • Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) in Vilnius

    "In 1925, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in Vilna (Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania), by key European intellectuals, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, to record the history and pioneer in the critical study of the language, literature and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe. From its inception, YIVO was deeply concerned that the language and culture of East European Jewry were undergoing radical change in a rapidly modernizing world. YIVO's founders were tireless in collecting the documents and archival records of Jewish communities across Eastern Europ...

  11. Gebietskommissariat Dnjepropetrowsk-Stadt

    • Дніпропетровський штадткомісар, м. Дніпропетровськ

  12. Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Luxemburg

    • CdZ Luxemburg

    Chef der Zivilverwaltung (Head of Civil Administration, CdZ) was a German official title in the Second World War. Task of a Head of the Civil administration was to conduct on behalf of the Commander in Chief of the German army in conquered territories the civil administration.

  13. Wilhelm Brauckmann

    • Wilhelm Karl August Brauckmann

    Brauckmann was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and lived in Luxembourg. He joined the NSDAP in 1935. In autumn 1940, he was appointed to the Civil Administration in occupied Luxembourg (CdZ) and assigned to Subdepartment IVa, headed by Dr. Hans Christian Neugebauer, where he worked until September 1944. He served in a unit dealing with house contents, until 1942, of which he then became commander. After receiving confiscation instructions from Neugebauer, Brauckmann’s unit drew up lists of the contents of deportees’ and migrants’ homes, confiscated their belongings, sold them on the free mar...

  14. Josef Ackermann

    Josef Ackermann was a German politician and a representative of the Reichstag for the Nazi Party (NSDAP), joining the party in 1925. Born in Arenberg-Immendorf he died in Vallendar, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. After the occupation of Luxembourg by German troops in May 1940, the Chef der Zivilverwaltung (Head of Civil Administration, CdZ) Gustav Simon announced Ackermann to be part of his staff as head of Abteilung IV in the CdZ. Ackermann was Sonderbeauftragter für die Verwaltung des jüdischen und Emigrantenvermögens,

  15. Добрянська міська управа, с. Добрянка Добрянського району Чернігівської області

    • Dobrianka village board, village of Dobrianka, Dobrianka district of Chernihiv oblast

  16. Сосницька районна поліція, смт. Сосниця Сосницького району Чернігівської області

    • Sosnytsia district police, town of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv oblast
    • Sosnytska raionna politsiia, smt. Sosnytsia Chernihivskoi oblasti

  17. Корюківська районна поліція, смт. Корюківка Чернігівської області

    • Koriukiv district police, town of Koriukivka, Chernihiv region
    • Koriukivska raionna politsiia, smt Koriukivka Chernihivskoi oblasti

  18. Козелецька районна управа, смт. Козелець Козелецького району Чернігівської області

    • Kozelets district board, town of Kozelets, Kozelets region of Chernihiv oblast
    • Kozeletska raionna uprava, smt Kozelets Kozeletsloho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

  19. Petras Baublys

    Petras Baublys was born on 23 May 1914 in Lyda (Byelorussia). He was Pediatrician and head of an orphanage in Kaunas. During the Nazi occupation, an underground Jewish organization active in the Kovno ghetto asked Baublys if the orphanage, situated in the same section of the city as the ghetto, could be used as a temporary place of refuge for Jewish children and a steppingstone for moving Jewish children to safer, permanent locations. Baublys agreed; over time, tens of Jewish babies and children were admitted into the orphanage. In 1977 Baublys was posthumously awarded the title "Righteous ...

  20. 11-as rezervinės policijos batalionas

    • Reserve-Polizei- Batallion 11