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  1. Schneour Zalman Schneersohn

    • שניאור זלמן שניאורסון

    One of the Chief Rabbis of Chabad Lubawich. He was active in France during WWII.

  2. Einsatzgruppe C

    • EG C

    1941/1944

    Einsatzgruppe C, 750 commandos initially, had its headquarters in Kiev. Areas of operation were southern and central Ukraine. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.

  3. Hans Krieger

    Officer in Einsatzgruppe C in jahr 1941-1942

  4. Andreas von Koskull

    An SS member and officer in Einsatzkommando 6 in the years 1941-1942

  5. Einsatzkommando 6

    • EK 6

    1941/1943

    Mobile killing squads of Einsatzgruppe C.

  6. Waldemar Klingelhoefer

    Deputy Commander Vorkommando Moskau in 1941

  7. Adolf Janssen

    Commander of Teilkommando in Sonderkommando 4a in 1941

  8. Georg-Albert Heuser

    Officer at the Einsatzgruppe A from 1941 to 1944 and commander of Einsatzkommando 14 in 1944

  9. Moses Schorr

    • משה שור

    Rabbi, historian, researcher of ancient Semitic languages and a senator in the Polish parliament

  10. Sonderkommandos 1005

    • Sonderkommando 1005

  11. Karl-Arthur Harder

    Deputy Commander at Sonderkommando 1005 in the years 1943-1944

  12. Kurt Hans

    Officer at Sonderkommando 4a

  13. Sonderkommando 4b

    1941/1944

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe C. Sonderkommando 4b is also known as Einsatzkommando 4b, even in reports of the Nazis in 1941.

  14. Joachim Hamann

    Officer in Sonderkommando 4b and Einsatzkommando 3 in year 1941

  15. Einsatzkommando 3

    • EK 3

    1941/1945

    Einsatzkommando 3 was a mobile killing squad of Einsatzgruppe A.

  16. August Haefner

    Commander of Teilkommando inside the Sonderkommando 4a.

  17. Frumka Plotnicka

    • פרומקה פלוטניצקה

    Plotnicka Frumka (1914-1943) one of the leaders of HeHalutz underground movement in Poland. From early youth she was a member of and activist in the ""Dror"" Zionist movement. After the outbreak of the war along with other members of hakhsharot (Zionist training farms) she reached the Soviet occupied territories and in 1940 was called back to the German occupation zone with a group of ""Dror"" leaders to establish the underground network for the movement. From June 1940 onwards Plotnicka traveled throughout Poland, even to the most remote ghettoes to strenghten the underground network. In S...

  18. Fritz Schultz

    The owner of the company Fritz Schultz, who employed forced laborers in the Warsaw ghetto

  19. Kuno Callsen

    Commander of Sonderkommando 4a in year 1942

  20. Matthias Graf

    Officer in Einsatzkommando 8 in year 1941 -1942