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  1. Rosenbaumová, Kamila (* 28.8.1908)

    Born 1908 in Vienna. Rosenbaumová worked as a children's care worker in the youth home for girls in L 410. Starting in spring 1943 she rehearsed the children's book "Broučci" as a dance theatre together with young children in Terezín. Transported to Terezín in January 1942. Transported to Auschwitz in 1944 and sent to Terezín with an evacuation transport in 1945. Liberated in Terezín in May 1945.

  2. Central Location Index

    • CLI

    The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing.

  3. Alliance Israélite Universelle

    • AIU

    1860/present

    The Alliance Israélite Universelle was set up by Adolphe Crémieux in 1860, originally to ‘reconcile Judaism with the modern world’, to combine Jewish identity for those ‘attached with [their] heart to the ancient religion of [their]fathers’ with French culture. The Alliance was created for the greater emancipation and moral progress of Jews and for relief of those who suffered, for civic equality and for strengthening self-improvement. Yet, through its influential school system it became a potent force for instilling French culture inside and outside the country, for furthering French inter...

  4. Generální velitel četnictva, Praha

    • Generalkommandant der Gendarmerie, Prag
    • General Commander of Gendarmerie, Prague

    The Gendarmerie as armed police forces under the command of the Ministry of Defense existed in the Bohemian lands since the time of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. With the founding of Czechoslovakia 1918 the Gendarmerie was subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior and took over the main police duties in the state from local crime investigations until police air patrols against German and Hungarian spy overflights after 1933. The Gendarmerie was also responsible for the border control and sent illegal emigrants from Nazi-Germany, under them also Jews, back. After the establishment of the...

  5. Polska Partia Socjalistyczna

    • Polish Socialist Party
    • PPS

    Founded in 1892

    The Polska Partia Socjalistyczna was established in 1892 by descendants of the Polish nobility and Polonized Jews from Warsaw. PPS combined the ideology of socialism with the Polish insurrectionary tradition.

  6. Heydrich Reinhard

    • Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942
    • Geĭdrikh, Reĭngard 1904-1942
    • הידריך, רינהרד
    • Heydrich, Reinhard
    • Heydrich, R. (Reinhard), 1904-1942
    • ...

    07/03/1904

    04/06/1942

    Founder of the SD, 1936 head of the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo), 1939 Head of the RSHA, 1941 appointed by Hermann Göring to prepare a "solution to the Jewish question". Covened the Wannsee conference. 1941 appointed Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, and killed 1942 by the Czech resistance movement.

  7. Neurath Constantin Freiherr von

    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Freiherr Von
    • Neurath, Konstantin, Freiherr von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin ˜vonœ 1873-1956
    • ...

    02/02/1873

    15/08/1956

    German Foreign Minister (1932-1938). Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1943).

  8. Frank Karl Hermann

    • Frank, Karl Hermann
    • Frank, Karl Hermann, 1898-1946
    • Frank, Karl H. 1898-1946
    • Frank.
    • Frank, K. H. 1898-1946
    • ...

    24/01/1898

    22/05/1946

    SS-Gruppenführer. In 1936, deputy of Henlein, in 1938 appointed deputy NSDAP-Gauleiter Sudetengau. From 1939 to 1944 state secretary (Staatssekretär) at the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, at the same time Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer. Executed.

  9. Nicholas Winton

    • Nicholas Wertheimer

    Nicholas Winton was born Nicholas Wertheimer on May 19, 1909, in West Hampstead, England, and baptized as a member of the Anglican Church by decision of his parents who were of German Jewish ancestry. He was a stockbroker by profession. Nicholas Winton organized a rescue operation that brought approximately 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain before the outbreak of World War II.

  10. Adolf Hrubý

    Adolf Hrubý was a Czechoslovak politician and Minister of Agriculture in the government of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia from January 1942 to May 1945.

  11. Československa liga proti bolševismu

    • Czechoslovak League against Bolshevism

    Czechoslovak anti-Soviet Pre-war organisation was founded 1937.

  12. Ministerstvo veřejných práci

    • Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten
    • Ministry of public works

    The Ministry of Public Works was founded on 2nd November 1918 shortly after the declaration of Independence of Czechoslovakia from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Its portfolios was mainly the improvement of infrastructure of the country and it existed untill 15th of January 1942. It´s agenda was taken over the newly established Ministry of Economy and Work (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce/Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit).

  14. Alexander

    The Alexander family was a prominent Croatian Jewish family from Zagreb. Alexander family ancestors moved to Zagreb from Güssing in Austria. The family played an important role in the economic and social life of Zagreb and Croatia for over a hundred years. Until 1941 the Alexanders were a large clan rather than an ordinary family. The great-grandparents of the Zagreb Alexanders included Samuel and Julija (née Rubin) Alexander, who had five sons and several daughters. Counting both the deceased and still living members, including the descendants of the female line, there were 224 Alexanders ...

  15. Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski

    (April 5, 1866–December 17, 1929) was an Croatian nobleman, industrialist, and philanthropist; he was the younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and a member of the prominent Alexander family of Zagreb. He was a well-known economics expert and published a noted article in the "Bankarstvo" magazine in 1924. Between 1905 and 1910, Alexander was the city representative in the Zagreb City Assembly. In 1909 he became the adviser of Franz Joseph I of Austria. Alexander worked in and was a member of more than 60 associations in Croatia. He was the councillor, vice president ,and honorary presid...

  16. Samuel "Sami" David Alexander

    In 1941 during World War II, with the NDH regime in power, Alexander and his wife found refuge at the sanatorium in Klaićeva Street. In 1942, they moved to the sanatorium of Dr. Đuro Vranešić, known for saving 80 Jews, in Zelengaj Street 57. He died there relatively peacefully at the age of 80 in 1943. Alexander was buried in the Mirogoj Cemetery. In their attempt to save themselves from Ustaše and Nazi persecution, members of his family were scattered across the world. Some of them stayed temporarily in Perugia, Italy. His wife and children survived the Holocaust, but many members of the A...

  17. Aleksandar Licht

    Dr. Aleksandar Licht (1884−1948) was an Croatian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia. Licht was born in village Sokolovac, near Koprivnica to a Croatian Jewish family. As a child he moved with his family to Zagreb. Licht was educated in Zagreb where he finished elementary and high school. He graduated as a lawyer at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. In 1909 he was promoted to a Doctor of law at the University of Zagreb. In 1913 he opened a law firm in Zagreb, but in 1914 he was drafted to a Austro-Hungarian Army. Upon completing military service, Licht retu...

  18. Ortskommandantur

  20. Der Generalkommissar in Nikolajew

    • Генеральний комісар, м. Миколаїв.