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  1. Roza Robota

    • רוזה רובוטה

    פעילת מחתרת ומורדת Jewish underground activist. She was hanged together with three other women for their role in the Sonderkommando prisoner revolt of 7 October 1944.

  2. Rudolf Bilfinger

    A senior official at RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt - Reich Main Security Office), and participant in the Wannsee Conference

  3. Herbert Backe

    German Nazi politician and SS Lieutenant general (Obergruppenführer), Minister of Food and Minister of Agriculture of the Nazi Germany. He developed and implemented the Hunger Plan that envisioned death by starvation of millions of Slavic and Jewish "useless eaters" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.

  4. Verband nationaldeutscher Juden

    • Association of German National Jews

  5. Max Naumann

    • מקס נאומן

    Founder and leader of the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden

  6. Georg Kareski

    • גיאורג קרסקי

    Leader of the Staatszionistische Organization - a revisionistische Zionistische organization- in Germany

  7. Kurt Singer

    • קורט זינגר

    Physician, musician, founder and director of the Jewish Kulturbund in Germany

  8. 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).

  9. Wladyslaw Gomulka

    Polish communist politician.

  10. Yehiel Grinshpan

    • יחיאל גרינשפן
    • Grynszpan Yehiel

    Commanded a Jewish partisan unit in the Parczew forest, Poland. The Grynzspan unit functioned as the protective force of the Jewish family camps that had been set up in the Parczew forest.

  11. Malka Zimetbaum

    • מלה צימטבאום

    A prisoner in Auschwitz, whose story of escape, capture, and death became a symbol of Jewish heroism.

  12. Erno Marton

    • ארנו מארטון

    Editor-in-chief of Uj Kelet

  13. Sturmabteilung

    • Storm Troopers
    • SA

    Founded in 1921

    The Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, was formed in 1921. It initially comprised mainly German World War I veterans, militia members, and others opposed to both the democratic Weimer Republic and to the Communist Party. Its terror tactics against opponents increased the public visibility of the Nazi movement, both before and after Adolf Hitlers’s rise to power. Once the Nazi regime was established, it began to perceive the disruptive tactics of the SA as a threat. Hitler agree to the murder of the SA’s top leadership in the Röhm Purge, or, ‘the night of the long knive...

  14. Jewish Infantry Brigade Group

    • הבריגדה היהודית
    • Brigata Ebraica
    • Jewish Brigade

    Established on the 03.07.1944. Its activity ends officially in July 1946.

    A brigade group of the British army that was made up of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. The Jewish Brigade was formed in 1944 and helped liberate Italy in 1945. The brigade was composed of 5,000 soldiers. The Zionist flag was chosen as its banner—making it not the first Jewish unit to fight in the war, but the first one to be recognized as representing the Jewish people. At the war's end, members of the Jewish Brigade helped prepare Displaced Persons for "illegal" immigration to Palestine. The British disbanded the brigade in July 1946.

  15. James Grover McDonald

    High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany

  16. Werner Freiherr von Fritsch

    Commander of the German Army until 1938.

  17. Friedrich Paulus

    German commander, sixth commander of the Battle of Stalingrad

  18. Reichswehr

    • הצבא הגרמני

  19. Zionist Union of Yugoslavia

    • הסתדרות הציונים ביוגוסלביה

    Main Zionist organization in Yugoslavia.

  20. Max Warburg

    • מקס ורבורג

    A central figure in the leadership of German Jewry during the Nazi period.