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  2. Organization Todt

    • Todt Organization
    • OT

    Organization Todt formed Nazi-sponsored, paramilitary labor battalions. This German military organization was dedicated to heavy construction and utilized concentration camp labor. OT also operated in the rearguard of Einsatzgruppen activity. It was headed by Dr. Fritz Todt until his death in 1942.

  3. Yeshayahu A. Jelinek

    • Yeshayahu Andrej Jelinek
    • ישעיהו ילינק
    • Yeshayahu Jelínek
    • Yeshayahu Andrej Jelínek

    1933-2016

    Prof. Yeshayahu A. Jelinek was an historian of East-Central Europe, particularly of Slovakia. He focused primarily on the history of the Jews in Slovakia, autochthonous fascism and antisemitism, the Holocaust, the tensions and overlaps between nationalism and communism, the German-Israeli relations.

  4. Ustasa

    • Ustasha

    1930/1940-05

    Ustasa was a Croatian fascist party that controlled the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state of Nazi Germany, from 1941 to 1945. This organization helped to implement the Holocaust in Croatia. Under leader Ante Pavelic, the Croatian state persecuted its Serb, Jewish, and Roma populations. Thirty thousand Jews and 325.000 to 333.000 Serbs were murdered in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia under the Ustasa government.

  5. Hashomer Hatzair

    • השומר הצעיר

    Founded in 1913.

    Zionist socialist youth movement created in Galizia (at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Hashomer Hatzair forthwith adopted a Zionist ideology and stressed the need for the Jewish people to normalize their lives by changing their economic structure (as merchants) and to become workers and farmers, who would settle in the Land of Israel and work the land as "chalutzim" (pioneers). They were influenced, as well, by the burgeoning socialist movement, and they dreamt of creating in their new homeland a society based on social justice and equality. During the Holocaust Hasho...

  6. Družina Kukovec

    • Kukovec family

  7. Okrajni ljudski odbor Lendava

    • People's Committee of the Lendava District

    1945 - 1952

  8. Mestni ljudski odbor Dolnja Lenadava

    • Municipal People's Committee of Dolnja Lendava

    1945 - 1952

  9. Bezirkshauptmannschaft Rudolfswerth

    • Okrajno glavarstvo Novo mesto

    1849 - 1945

  10. Gorenjski muzej

    • Gorenjska Museum

  11. Tito Josip Broz

    • Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980
    • Broz, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Broz-Tito, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Tito-Broz, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Broz, Josip.
    • ...

    07/05/1892

    04/05/1980

    Secretary-general of the Communist Party of Yugosloavia (1939-80). Yugoslav president (1953-80).

  12. Vladimir Dedijer

    Vladimir Dedijer (1914 - 1990)

  13. Arhiv Republike Slovenije

    • Archives of the Republic of Slovenia

  14. Comando del Gruppo Carabinieri Reali di Lubiana (1941-1943)

    • Poveljstvo grupe kraljevih karabinjerjev Ljubljana (1941-1943)

  15. Muzej novejše in sodobne zgodovine Slovenije

    • Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia

  16. Janko Spreitzer

    • Janko (Ivan) Spreitzer

  17. Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor

    • Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor

  18. Swedish Red Cross

    • צלב אדום - שבדיה
    • Svenska Röda Korset

  19. URO - United Restitution Organization

    • אור"ו - ארגון מאוחד לקבלת שילומים

    ארגון לסיוע משפטי בקבלת שילומים מגרמניה

  20. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

    • UNRRA

    1943/1945 - 1947

    United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency, largely dominated by the United States but representing 44 nations. It was founded in 1943 but its main activity started after WWII in 1945. UNRRA has an aim to relief the victims of war by donating them food, fuel, medical care, shelter, clothing and other essential necessities. UNRRA cooperated with many charitable organizations and later in 1948 it was replaced by Marshall plan.