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  1. Horst Eichler

    Adjutant of Einsatzgruppe A in 1941

  2. Hillel Zeitlin

    • הלל צייטלין

    A thinker, journalist, essayist.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. Robert Stricker

    • רוברט שטריקר

    Jewish Austrian politician, publisher and Zionist activist.

  7. Egon Redlich

    • אגון רדליך

    Leader in a Czech Zionist youth movement

  8. Wilhelm Bock

    Commander in the Vorkommando Moskau in year 1942

  9. Ernst Biberstein

    Commander of the Einsatzkommando 6 from 1942 to 1943

  10. August Becker

    Chemist and member of the SS. He was appointed by the RSHA to oversee the gas trucks used by the Einsatzgruppen operating in the Soviet Union between 1941-1942.

  11. Agudat Israel - Germany

    • אגודת ישראל - גרמניה

    Organization of Orthodox Jews in Germany

  12. Jacob Rosenheim

    • יעקב רוזנהיים

    A publisher Jewish Orthodox political and religious leader. Founder and President of the worldwide party Agudat Israel.

  13. Agudat Israel

    • Union of Israel
    • Aguda

    Orthodox, religious political party hostile to Zionism.

  14. World Zionist Organization

    • ההסתדרות הציונית העולמית
    • WZO

    Founded in 1897

    The World Zionist Organization was founded by the architect of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, in 1897 as an international federation of diverse Zionist groups. Under Chaim Weizmann’s leadership, the organization was pro-British and played a pivotal role influencing the Jewish Agency in distributing Palestine Certificates. These permits meant life and death in late 1930s and early 1940s. The WZO was roundly criticized for favoring young and healthy pioneers, leftist Zionists, and non-Orthodox Jews.

  15. Joachim Prinz

    • German Zionist rabbi.

    רב ציוני

  16. Max Plaut

    • מקס פלאוט

    A lawyer and leader of the Jewish Community in Hamburg

  17. Theodor Oberländer

    • Theodor Oberlaender

    A Nazi expert on "Ostforschung", research of European areas to the East of Germany. After the war served in the West German government as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War.

  18. Andor Biss

    • אנדור ביס

    Active in the Aid and Rescue Committee in Budapest

  19. Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency in Budapest

    • ועדת העזרה וההצלה ב-Budapest

    Hungarian Zionist Alliance for Rescuing Refugees and Persecuted Jews

  20. Chaim Barlas

    • חיים ברלס

    Head of the Rescue Committee in Istanbul