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  1. August Haefner

    Commander of Teilkommando inside the Sonderkommando 4a.

  2. 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...

  3. Fritz Schultz

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

  4. Kuno Callsen

    Commander of Sonderkommando 4a in year 1942

  5. Matthias Graf

    Officer in Einsatzkommando 8 in year 1941 -1942

  6. Desider Friedmann

    • דזידר פרידמן

    Zionist leader and president of the Vienna Israelite Community (IKG)

  7. Guenther Fuchs

    Gestapo officer in Lodz and officer on the Einsatzkommando 1005

  8. Alfred Filbert

    Commander of the Einsatzkommando 9 in 1941

  9. Einsatzkommando 9

    • EK 9

    1941/1943

    Einsatzkommando 9 was a mobile killing squad of Einsatzgruppe B.

  10. Lothar Fendler

    Deputy Commander in Sonderkommando 4b in the years 1941-1942

  11. Johannes-Hugo Feder

    An officer in Einsatzgruppe A in 1941 and in Einsatzgruppe B in 1942-1943

  12. Erich Engels

    Head of the Jewish Department of the Gestapo in Lemberg -Lwow since 1941,

  13. Horst Eichler

    Adjutant of Einsatzgruppe A in 1941

  14. Hillel Zeitlin

    • הלל צייטלין

    A thinker, journalist, essayist.

  15. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Salzburg

    • SD Leitabschnitt Salzburg

    The Sicherheitsdienst was an intelligence and surveillance organization, established in 1931 under Reinhard Heydrich. Among its major tasks were monitoring real or imagined enemies of national socialism and reporting on the state of opinion among the German public. The SD was widely represented, for example with an office in Salzburg.

  16. Karl Brunner

    Head of the SD and SD police in Salzburg between 1939-1944. Head of SS and police in Bolzano between 1943 and 1945.

  17. Schutzstaffel

    • Black Shirts
    • SS
    • SS - Schutzstaffel

    Founded in 1925

    The Schutzstaffel was a small detachment was formed in 1925 to provide security for Hitler. Beginning in 1929, under the tutelage of Heinrich Himmler, the SS was enlarged and became an independent entity (1944-07) within the Nazi Party. In 1934, it effectively eliminated its rival, the SA, during the Night of the Long Knives. The SS was composed of the Gestapo, Kriminalpolizei, Waffen-SS,and Totenkopfverbaende. All police agencies were brought under the control of the SS in 1936. The Nuremberg Tribunal declared the SS to be a criminal organization for the ‘persecution and extermination of J...

  18. Robert Stricker

    • רוברט שטריקר

    Jewish Austrian politician, publisher and Zionist activist.

  19. Egon Redlich

    • אגון רדליך

    Leader in a Czech Zionist youth movement

  20. Wilhelm Bock

    Commander in the Vorkommando Moskau in year 1942