Authorities

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  1. Edward John Voûte

    17-9-1887 - 18-6-1950

    Dutch Mayor of Amsterdam 1941-1945

  2. Walther Rathenau

    29 September 1867 – 24 June 1922

    Jewish German Statesman and Foreign Minister

  3. Etty Hillesum

    • Esther Hillesum

    15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943

    Dutch Jewish writer, who wrote diaries and letters (in Westerbork ) about her life, spirituality and the persecution of Jewish citizens. Died in Auschwitz.

  4. David Cohen

    31 December 1882 – 3 September 1967

    Chairman of the Jewish Council Netherlands

  5. Sybren Tulp

    29 march 1891 – 22 october 1942

    Dutch SS and chief-police officer of Amsterdam. Organized and attended personally razzia's against Jewish citizens.

  6. Pieter Menten

    • Pieter Nicolaas Menten

    May 26, 1899 – November 14, 1987

    Pieter Menten was a World War II war criminal, member of the SS.

  7. Abraham Puls

    Dutch busines man who cooperated with the German Occupier. Puls had a moving company, that cleared and took away possessions from 29.000 Jewish houses, including the Achterhuis of Anne Frank.

  8. Abel Herzberg

    • Abel Jacob Herzberg

    17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989

    Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer, writer and poet. He wrote many plays and novels, focused mainly on Biblical characters. His works include 'Tweestromenland", "Kroniek der Jodenvervolging", and "Om een lepel soep". Herzberg was a prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 11 January 1944 to 10 April 1945.

  9. Albert Einstein

    14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955

  10. Walter Süskind

    1906-10-29 - 1945-02-28

    Worked at the Hollandsche Schouwburg, deportation place for Dutch Jews. Helped to escape around 600 Jewish children from the nearby creche.

  11. Bernardina Adriana van Moorst

    • Dien van Moorst
  12. Heintje Davids

    • Hendrika David
    • Henriëtte Davids

    13 february 1888 – 14 february 1975

    Dutch variety artist

  13. Joachim Simon (Schuschu)

    • Schuschu

    Joachim Simon (known as Shushu) was a Jewish-German leader of a rescue movement during World War II. Simon, along with Joop Westerweel, led a group called the Westerweel Group.

  14. Carl von Ossietzky

    3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938

    Carl von Ossietzky (3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament.

  15. Joseph Heidingsfeld

    Jewish Refugees in Switzerland

  16. Joseph Kermish

    • Joseph Kermisz

    Dr. Joseph Kermish was born in the town of Zlotniki, in the Tarnopol district, 1907. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and completed his doctoral studies in 1937. He spent the years 1936-1939 preparing a book of bibliographies on the history of Warsaw and the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw, work that was suspended with the outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939, and his draft into the Polish Army. He spent the period of the German occupation, from 1941, in the town of Probuzna, not far from Husiatin. During this period he served as the authorized representative of th...

  17. Heinz Jost

    1904 – 1964

    Commander of Einsatzgruppe A from March to September 1942 SS-Brigadeführer and a Generalmajor (Brigadier General) of Police

  18. Germaansche SS

    • Germaanse SS
    • Nederlandsche SS
    • Germaansche SS in Nederland

    Dutch SS. The Nederlandsche SS was created on 11 september 1940. It changed it name on 1 november 1942 to Germaansche SS in Nederland.

  19. U.S. Army

    • Amerikaanse Strijdkrachten
    • United States Army