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  1. Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna

    • Central Jewish Historical Commission
    • ועדה היסטורית יהודית בפולין
    • Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna w Polsce
    • Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland

    One of the organization’s first projects was to prepare elaborate questionnaires for groups of Holocaust survivors. By December 1945, some 3,000 testimonies had been collected, constituting one of the most significant bodies of evidence about the Holocaust gathered in the immediate postwar years. In early 1945, the commission began publishing annotated editions of these responses. It then sought monographs on the Holocaust in Poland, based largely on evidence it had gathered. By late 1947, the commission had collected about 7,300 testimonies and had published 38 books.

  2. Mayer Saly

    • מאיר סלי
    • Mayer, Saly, 1882-1950
    • Saly, Mayer
    • Saly, Mayer, 1882-1950

    1882

    1950

    President of the Schweizerische Israelische Gemeindebund (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities) [SIG] 1936-1943 and representative of JOINT in Switzerland.

  3. Levente

    Paramilitary youth organizations in Hungary in the interwar period and during the Second World War.

  4. District Court Hamm i. Westfalen

    • בית המשפט העל-מחוזי ב-Hamm i. Westfalen

  5. Alexander Mach

    One of the leaders of faschist Slovak puppet state

  6. Polish police

    • משטרה פולנית

  7. Bloch Elie-Leopold

    1909

    1943

    Rabbi. Member of the Jewish underground in France.

  8. Vaad Hahatzalah (New York)

    • ועד ההצלה של אגודת הרבנים בארצות-הברית
    • Rescue Committee of United States Orthodox Rabbis
    • Vaad Hahatzalah
    • Vaad Hatzala

    Founded in 1939 continued its activity until the early 1950s.

    A body originally established to rescue rabbis and yeshivah students during World War II. Though originally focusing exclusively on rabbis and yeshivah students, it expanded its agenda to assist all Jews in the wake of the revelation of the Final Solution and became the representative relief agency of American Orthodox Jewry.

  9. Vaad ha-Hatzala in Kushta (Istanbul)

    • ועד ההצלה בקושטא (Istanbul)
    • Rescue Committee (Vaad Hahatzalah) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel
    • Vaad haatzala in Kushta (Istanbul)

  10. Born, Friedrich

    10/06/1903

    14/01/1963

    Chief Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross of Switzerland in Budapest (Hungary) between May 1944 and March 1945. During the period from May 1944 to January 1945, Born issued thousands of Red Cross letters of protection (Schutzbriefe) to Jews. He put over 60 Jewish institutions under Red Cross protection and housed over 7,000 Jewish children and orphans. He worked closely with the other neutral diplomatic legations, and set up dozens of Red Cross protected houses. In 1987, Born was designated as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem (Israel).

  11. Garel Georges

    • Garel, Georges, 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grigori 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grégori 1909-1979

    1909

    1979

    Ran one of the OSE networks, rescuer of Jewish children in Vichy France by passing them of as gentiles and hiding among the non-Jewish French population.

  12. Reik Haviva

    1914

    20/11/1944

    One of the Jewish Agency's parachutist from Palestine sent by the Jewish Agency and the British army on various missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.. Captured and executed by Waffen-SS in Slovakia

  13. Samuel Vivette

    • Samuel, Vivette, 1919-....
    • Hermann, Vivette.
    • Samuel, Vivette 1919-2006
    • Hermann, Vivette 1919-2006

    21/05/1919

    16/07/2006

    Member of l'OEuvre de secours aux enfants

  14. Peshev Dimitar

    • Pešev, Dimit''r 1894-1973
    • Peshev, Dimitar, 1894-1973
    • Пешев, Димитър 1894-1973
    • Pešev, Dimitǎr, 1894-1973
    • Peshev, Dimitur, 1894-1973
    • ...

    25/06/1894

    20/02/1973

    Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice during World War II. Prevented deportations of Jews from Bulgaria

  15. Mantello George

    • Mantello, George
    • Mantello, George, 1901-1992
    • Mantello, George, -1992
    • Mandl, George, 1901-1992

    1901

    1992

    Honorary First Secretary for El Salvador in Geneva, 1942-45

  16. Musy Jean Marie

    • Musy, Jean-Marie, 1876-1952
    • Musy, Jean, 1876-1952
    • Musy, Jean-Marie
    • Musy, Jean Marie 1876-1952

    10/04/1876

    19/04/1952

    Member of the Federal Council of Switzerland (1919/1934). Negotiated the release of 1210 prisoners from Theresienstadt.

  17. Lowrie Donald A.

    • Lowrie, Donald A. (Donald Alexander), 1889-1974
    • Lowrie, Donald Alexander.
    • Lowrie, Donald Alexander, 1889-1974
    • Lowrie, Donald A.
    • Lowrie, Donald A. 1889-1974

    1889

    1974

    YMCA emissary in France and a delegate of the America Friends of Czechoslovakia. Initiator of the Comite de Nimes (Roof organisation of Jewish and non-Jewish relief organisations founded in Nimes, France)

  18. Perlasca Giorgio

    • Perlasca, Giorgio, 1910-1992
    • Perlasca, Giorgio
    • Perlasca, Jorge, 1910-1992

    1910

    Businessman. Saved 5200 Jews pretending to be a Spanish consul to Budapest.

  19. Fleischmann Gisi

    • Fleischmannová, Gizi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmannová, Gisela, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi
    • פלישמן, גישי
    • ...

    21/01/1892

    1944

    President of the Slovak WIZO, and representative of the Joint in Slovakia. Gisi Fleischmann was one of the few female Jewish leaders in Europe during World War II. She helped Jews in Slovakia to find refuge in other countries before the war and in the midst of the war. As a member of the Bratislava underground Working Group, she was involved with the Europa Plan and the Children’s Rescue Plan, which attempted to save Jews through bribery and negotiations with the Nazis. Fleischmann was arrested by the SS in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. She was murdered on arrival in Auschwitz in October ...

  20. Riegner Gerhard

    12/09/1911

    03/12/2001

    Head of Genfer Geschäftsstelle des WJC (1939-48). Passed information on the murder on European Jews to the British and American governments