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  1. Geertruida Maria van Moorst

    • Gé van Moorst

  2. Jan Feitsma

    22 January 1884 – 2 February 1945

    Dutch NSB and attorney general of Amsterdam during German occupation.

  3. Ernest Bevin

    9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951

    British statesman, trade union leader, and Labour politician.

  4. Abraham Asscher

    19 September 1880 – 2 May 1950

    a Dutch Jewish businessman and politician from Amsterdam. In the 1930s, he became a leader and spokesmen of the Dutch Jewish community. He served as the President of the nation’s central Jewish organization, the Nederlandsch-Israëlitsch Kerkgenootschap (Dutch Jewish Congregation). When Jewish refugees began to flee in numbers to the Netherlands from the Nazi regime in Germany, it was Asscher, along with Professor David Cohen, who established (with government support) two organizations to deal with the situation. The Comité voor Bijzondere Joodse Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Intere...

  5. Salomon Schrijver

    • Sam Schrijver

    25 May 1917 - 9 July 1943

  6. Lodewijk Ernst Visser

    • mr. L.E. Visser

    2 September 1871 - 17 February 1942

    First Jewish president of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. Was fired after the german occupation. He founded and was chairman of the Joodsche Coördinatie Commissie.

  7. Abraham Salomon Levisson

    8 June 1902 - 25 April 1945

    In 1935 he was appointed chief rabbi of Friesland. This appointment included responsibility for the district of Drenthe. In 1941 he was also appointed chief rabbi of Gelderland. An announcement in recognition of this appointment appeared on the front page of the Joodsche Weekblad in July 1941. Abraham Salomon Levisson founded the circle of Jewish academics in Friesland in an effort to retain Jewish intellectuals within the Jewish community. Chief Rabbi Levisson was one of the leaders in the Leeuwarden subcommittee of the committee for special Jewish interests. In the late 1930s Levisson bec...

  8. Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau

    • Princess Juliana
    • Prinses Juliana
    • Koningin Juliana
    • Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands

    30 April 1909 – Baarn, 20 March 2004

  9. Elisabeth Maria van Moorst

    • Bets van Moorst

  10. Samuel Henri Englander

    26 September 1896 - 11 June 1943

    Conductor of the Choir of the Amsterdam Synagoge. Died in Sobibor.

  11. Ans van Dijk

    24 December 1905 – 14 January 1948

    Jewish collaborator of the German occupier who betrayed Jewish citizens. Only female war crimes convict that was sentenced to the death penalty.

  12. Anneke Beekman

  13. Anton Mussert

    • Anton Adriaan Mussert

    11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946

    One of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) and its formal leader. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch fascist before and during World War II. During the war, he was able to keep this position, due to the support he received from the Germans. After the war, he was convicted and executed for high treason.

  14. Franz Anton Stapf

    Photographer - Stapf Bilderdienst

  15. Lin Jaldati

    • Rebekka Brilleslijper

    13 December 1912- 31 August 1988

    Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer. She was a Holocaust survivor, and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. A self-professed socialist, she performed in Yiddish in Russia, China, North Korea and Vietnam from the 1950s to the 1970s

  16. Emanuel Boekman

    August 15, 1889 – May 15, 1940

    Dutch social democratic politician, statistician, demographer and typographer. He is remembered for his activities as a municipal executive board member for education and culture in Amsterdam and advocacy for an active state cultural policy

  17. Julius Streicher

    12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946

    Prominent Nazi.He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine

  18. Walter Bedell Smith

    5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961

    Senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 during World War II. He was Eisenhower's chief-of-staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Western Europe from 1944 through 1945.

  19. Ferdinand aus der Fünten

    • Ferdinand Hugo aus der Fünten

    17 December 1909 – 19 April 1989

    SS-Hauptsturmführer and head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam during the Second World War. He was responsible for the deportations of Jews from the Netherlands to the German concentration camps.

  20. Herman Heijermans

    3 December 1864 – 22 November 1924

    Dutch writer