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  1. Kubovy Aryeh Leon

    • Kubovy, Aryeh L., 1896-1966
    • Kubowitzki, Aryeh Leon, 1896-1966
    • Kubovy, Arieh Leon, 1896-1966
    • Ḳubovi, Aryeh L., 1896-1966
    • קובובי, אריה ל.
    • ...

    02/11/1986

    16/05/1966

    Israeli diplomat and writer. Director of World Jewish Congres (1940-). The second Chairman of Yad Vashem.

  2. Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

    • יד ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה
    • Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah

    From 1953 to the present

    In 1953, the Israeli Knesset enacted the Yad Vashem Law, which determined that among its other missions, the task of Yad Vashem is “to collect, examine and publish testimony of the disaster and the heroism it called forth…” Indeed, efforts to document the Holocaust had begun long before the passage of the law. From the Nazi rise to power in Germany, and throughout World War II, there were those who documented the events as they were taking place, often under the harshest conditions. Immediately after the war, centers for documentation and the collection of testimonies were established in ma...

  3. Yad Vashem archives

    • ארכיון יד ושם
    • YV archives

    From 1953 to the present

    The Yad Vashem Archives holds various types of materials related to the Holocaust period, materials related to the life of the Jews in Europe between WWI and WWII and materials related to the life of the survivors after the Holocaust. Among these materials, the Yad Vashem Archives holds individual documents such as letters, diaries, photos, films, testimonies and personal documents which had been donated to the Archives by individuals. Many of these documents are original. Other types of documents available in the archives are those which were created by Jewish organizations before, during ...

  4. Filderman Wilhelm

    • Filderman, Wilhelm
    • Filderman, Wilhelm, 1882-1963
    • Filderman, W., 1882-1963
    • Filderman, W. (Wilhelm), 1882-1963
    • Filderman, Ṿilhelm 1882-1963
    • ...

    1882

    1863

    Jewish lawyer.

  5. Miklos Kallay

    Prime minister of Hungary during the Shoah - March 9, 1942 - March 19, 1944

  6. Richard Tuerk

    Head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the office of the governor of the Lublin district

  7. Beitar - Brit Trumpeldor

    • בית"ר - ברית יוסף טרומפלדור

    Youth Movement Connected to the Revisionist Party

  8. Menahem Papo

    • צמחים פאפו
    • Menahem Leon Papo
    • צמחים לאון פאפו

    Born in September 1924. Arrested on 09/05/1943 while on a mission. Hanged in a Sofia prison on 02/11/1943. Betar member until 1941. In light of the rise of Fascism, members left the organization and joined the ranks of Bulgarian underground organizations.

  9. Richard Wagner

    • ריכרד וגנר

    German composer and antisemitic writer.

  10. Ehud Avriel

    • אהוד אבריאל

    Activist of "Hamossad Le'Aliyah Bet". After WWII member of the Knesset and Ambassador.

  11. Knesset

    • כנסת
    • Israeli Parliament
    • בית הנבחרים ישראלי

    From 14/02/1949 to the present

  12. Julian Tuwim

    • יולין טובים
    • Oldlen

    Jewish poet in Poland. One of his works was for the anthem of the underground in Poland. Author of "We, the Jews of Poland";

  13. Mezan Saul

    • Mézan, Saül 1893-1943
    • Mézan, Saül

    1893

    1943

    Poet and Zionist. Author of "Pesni za Erusalim" ("Songs of Jerusalem")

  14. Ralf Hochhut

    German writer. His play Der Stellvertreter was an indictment against Pope Pius 12 for not acting against the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis *

  15. Draza Mihailovic

    Commander of the Serbian organization CETNICI / Chetniks. This organization collaborated with the Italian occupation and later with the Nazis.

  16. Chetnik movement

    • Chetniks

    The Chetnik movement was founded on the ideology of an expansionist Serbia, a common state for the Serbian people. From the establishment of the Yugoslav state in 1918-12 until its destruction in 1941-04, the Chetnik organizations were pillars of expansionist Serbian elements within the top ranks of the government.

  17. Gyula Gombos

    Prime Minister of Hungary from 1932-1936

  18. Moshe Gildenman

    • משה גילדנמן

    Jewish commandant of a partisan group in Ukraine.

  19. Mordehai (Marcus) Ehrenpreis

    • מרדכי ארנפרייס

    Rabby Dr. Mordehai (Marcus) Ehrenpreis - Chief Rabby of Bulgaria 1900-1913.

  20. Einsatzgruppe B

    • EG B

    1941/1944

    Einsatzgruppe B, 655 troops initially, had its headquarters in Smolensk. Areas of operation were Belorussia and Smolensk district. Its first commander was SS-Obergruppenführer Arthur Nebe. He was implicated in the 1944-07-20 assassination attempt against Hitler and executed in the spring of 1945. Himmler replaced him with SS-Gruppenführer Erich Naumann and later SS-Oberführer dr. Horst Böhme and SS-Standartenführer dr. Heinz Seetzen. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgru...