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  1. Daniel Erich Eismann

    • דניאל אריך אייזמן

    Teacher at a Jewish school in Berlin

  2. Katzenelson Itzhak

    • יצחק יחיאל קצנלסון
    • Icchak Kacenelson
    • Ytzhak Yehiel Katzenelson

    1886

    1944

    Jewish teacher, poet, dramatist. Participated in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  3. Nathan David Perlman

    • נתן דוד פרלמן

  4. Hugo Rosenthal

    • יוסף ישובי-רוזנטאל
    • Yosef Yashuvi.

    German educator and Zionist activist.

  5. Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz

    • יוזף הרמן הרץ
    • Joseph Herman Hertz

    Hungarian Rabbi and Bible scholar. Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946.

  6. Moshe Eliyahu Rogosnitzky

    • משה אליהו ראגאזניצקי

    Orthodox Rabbi from Leipzig. A member of the Halachische Kommission (Religious Jewish Law Commission) of the Vereinigung traditionell gesetztreuer Rabbiner.

  7. Ytzhak Kadmi Cohen

    • יצחק קדמי כהן
    • Isaac Kadmi Cohen

    Zionist activist close to Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the revisionist movement. He died in Auschwitz in 1944.

  8. Ze'ev Jabotinsky

    • זאב ז'בוטינסקי

    Zionist leader and author

  9. Moshe Agami (Averbuch)

    • משה אגמי (אוורבוך)

    Activist of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet. Born in 1907 in Latvia, he immigrated In 1928 to Eretz Israel and joined Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. In 1938 he went on a mission to the Austrian "Hehalutz"; In 1939-1940 he continued to work on behalf of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet in Switzerland and Hungary. In 1942-1943 he served as the emissary of the Mossad L'Aliyah Bet in Iran and in 1944 he was active in Istanbul, Turkey. From there he went to Romania and worked there as a representative of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet until 1946. He also worked in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in foreign enlistment on behalf of the...

  10. Siegfried Moses

    • זיגפריד מוזס

    German Zionist leader and Israel public official. He was active in Jewish communal affairs as vice chairman of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, 1933–37, and as a member of the Berlin Community Council. He settled in Palestine in 1937 and assumed the post of managing director of "Ha'avara" (transfer of Jewish assets in Germany to Palestine). He was the chairman of the Advisory Committee of the United Restitution Organization in Israel and a member of the board of Bank Leumi. Moses wrote The Income Tax Ordinance of Palestine (1942, 1946), Jewish Post-War Claims (1944), and artic...

  11. Hanna Steiner

    • חנה שטיינר

    Emigration activist and a prominent figure in WIZO in Czechoslovakia.

  12. Ze'ev Pomerantz

    • זאב פומרנץ

    Member of Vaad ha-Hatzala (rescue committee) in Kushta (Istanbul)

  13. Aron Menczer

    • אהרון מנצ'ר

    Director of the Youth Aliya in Vienna

  14. Youth Aliyah

    1933/present

    Not far from the Nazi headquarters in Berlin, Recha Freier, a woman of determination and Zionist passion created the organization that would, a few months after Hitler took over the reins of power, be called Youth Aliyah. In the course of the harrowing years that followed Youth Aliyah saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children by bringing them to Palestine and Great Britain. Freier’s work did not, however, end in 1945. Over the years and until today Youth Aliyah is working tirelessly to bring homeless and traumatised Jewish children from more than 20 countries to one of its Youth Villa...

  15. Kaczerginski Shmerke

    • שמריהו קצ'רגינסקי
    • ‏קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע.
    • Kaczerginski, Szmerke
    • Ḳaṭsherginsḳi, Shmerḳe, 1908-1954
    • קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע, 1908-1954
    • ...

    1908

    1954

    Jewish writer and poet, partisan fighter, took an active part in the cultural life and the education of the youth in the Vilnius Ghetto, eminent collector of the Yiddish Shoah song, survivor of Vilnius ghetto.

  16. מ. ח. געשייט

    • מ. ח. געשייט

  17. אברהם רייסקי

    • אברהם רייסקי

  18. Corrie ten Boom

    • Cornelia ten Boom

    Christian activist and Dutch resistance member who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.

  19. Poale Zion

    • Zionist Workers
    • פועלי ציון

    Poale Zion was a Zionist socialist party. In 1920 as a result of a split, the more radical Poale Zion-Left and the more moderate Poale Zion-Right were formed.

  20. British Army

    • Britse Strijdkrachten
    • Anglická Armáda
    • הצבא הבריטי