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  1. Zakład Karny w Rawiczu

    • Strafanstalt Rawitsch

  2. Zakład Karny we Wronkach

    • Strafanstalt Wronke

  3. Saugumo policijos ir SD vadas Lietuvoje

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Litauen
    • Chief of the Security Police and SD of the Lithuanian General Region
    • Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa na Litwie

    Chief of the Security Police and SD of the Lithuanian General Region issued orders to the Operative groups to identify and liquidated Soviet officials, communists, members of Young Communist League, Roma people, the sick, but most of all, the Jews.

  4. Landgericht Posen

    • Sąd Krajowy w Poznaniu
    • Sąd Okręgowy w Poznaniu

  5. Deutsche Arbeitsfront

    • German Labor Organization
    • Niemiecki Front Pracy
    • DAF

    Founded in 1933-05-10

    Founded in 1933-05-10, under the leadership of Dr. Robert Ley, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront supplanted labor unions. This arm of the Nazi government comprised 20 million workers. Wages were frozen, strikes prohibited, independent unions banned, and working conditions were controlled by the government.

  6. Ordnungsdienst

    • Order Service
    • Jewish Police

    The Ordnungsdienst was established on the eve of the creation of the ghetto with a prewar inspector of State Police, Colonel Józef Szerynski, as its commander. The Ordnungsdienst was thus a police force within the ghetto. These Jews assisted the Nazis in rounding up other Jews for selections and deportations to death and concentration camps. Their activities caused great enmity among ghetto residents.

  7. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvoje Vilniaus skyrius

    • Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Litauen Aussendienststelle Wilna
    • Chief of the SS and SD in Lithuania, Vilnius Department
    • SIPO and SD commander Vilnius section

    Chief of the SS and SD in Lithuania, Vilnius Department was subordinate to the Chief of the SS and SD in Lithuania. The main goal of Chief of the SS and SD in Lithuania, Vilnius Department was to persecute and destroy the enemies of Nazism and perform other police means to ensure the security of the occupied territory.

  8. Gwardia Ludowa

    • Polish Peoples Army
    • Polska Armia Ludowa
    • GL
    • PAL

    Founded in 1943-04

    The Gwardia Ludowa is a Polish communist underground organization, established in 1943-04 under Soviet sponsorship. This group, also known as the Polish Peoples Army, welcomed Jews into their ranks. An estimated 1,700 Jews were killed fighting for the Gwardia Ludowa. This army supplied small arms to the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization), during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The GL never integrated with the Armia Krajowa.

  9. Anne Frank

    • Annelies Marie Frank

    12 June 1929 – February/March 1945

    a German-born diarist and writer. She is a Jewish victim of the Holocaust. Her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, documents her life in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, is still widely read across the world.

  10. Sąd Grodzki w Tuchowie

  11. Staatanwaltschaft bei dem Landgericht zu Thorn

    • Prokuratura Sądu Krajowego w Toruniu

  12. Philip Mechanicus

    17 April 1889 - 12 October 1944

    Dutch journalist who wrote for Algemeen Handelsblad. Wrote about the Sovjet-Union and Palestine. Wrote a diary while enprisoned in Westerbork. This was published after the war.

  13. Edith Stein

    • St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

    12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942

    Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942), was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to the Roman Catholic Church and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church.

  14. Boegner Marc

    1881

    1970

    Theologist. Head of the Protestant church in France. French resistance.

  15. Ziereis Franz

    • Ziereis, Franz 1905-1967

    13/08/1905

    25/05/1945

    Commander of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  16. Lozovskiy Solomon Abramovich

    1878

    12/08/1952

    Soviet politician and trade unionist. Deputy Foreign Minister (1939-1946).

  17. Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich dieł

    • People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
    • NKWD

    1934/1946

    Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich Dieł was the central organ of security authority in the Soviet Union. NKWD was used by Joseph Stalin to pursue a policy of terror.

  18. Partito Nazionale Fascista

    • Fascist National Party
    • PNF

    Of the 42,500 Jews in Italy in 1940, about 85 percent would survive the Holocaust. In the early years after World War I, Italian Jews enjoyed the fruits of emancipation won in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and they played an active role in Italian political and professional life. Little changed after Benito Mussolini’s accession to power on 1922-10-30. There were some Jews in Mussolini’s Partito Nazionale Fascista, and some rose to positions of importance. In fact, according to Susan Zuccotti, the PNF was relatively free of anti-Semitism.

  19. Otto Ohlendorf

    • Ohlendorf Otto

    From 04/02/1907 to 08/06/1951

    Associate professor in Kiel. Initiated Sicherheitsdienst (1936), and lead Einsatzgruppe D and Referat SD-Inland in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (1941-42). Undersecretary in the Reichwirtschaftsministerium.

  20. Sąd Rejonowy w Lubinie