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  1. Vilniaus universitetas

    • Vilnius University

    From 1579 until now.

    Following Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, the university was briefly administered by the Lithuanian authorities (from October 1939), and then after Soviet annexation of Lithuania (June 1940), punctuated by a period of German occupation after German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941–1944), administrated as Vilnius State University by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1945 the Polish community of students and scholars of Stafan Batory University was transferred to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, following the...

  2. Πρωτοδικείο Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Court of First Instance in Thessaloniki
    • Protodikeio Thessalonikis

  3. Υπουργείο Οικονομικών

    • Ministry of Finance
    • Tpourgeio Oikonomikon

  4. Ειδικό Δικαστήριο Δωσιλόγων Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Special Court for Collaborators in Thessaloniki
    • Eidiko Dikastirio Dosilogon Thessalonikis

  5. Seinų apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Seinai County

  6. Aleksandras Lileikis

    Lithuanian Security Police had six regional branches (in Kaunas, Vilnius, Šiauliai, Ukmergė, Marijampolė and Panevėžys. Aleksandras Lileikis (1907-2000) was a chief of Vilnius branch.

  7. Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    • Ypourgeio Exoterikon

  8. Rothenberg, Alois (1894 - ?)

    Born 1894. Rothenberg was an Austrian Zionist and Director of the Palestine Office in Vienna between 1938 and 1940. Rothenberg emigrated in 1940.

  9. Storfer, Berthold (1884 - 1944)

    Born 1884 in Czernowitz. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Storfer was a banker. After 1938 he became head of the Committee for Jewish overseas transports. Storfer organised the emigration of Jews from the German Reich and the "Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia" to Palestine. Storfer was sent to Auschwitz where he was murdered in 1944.

  10. Prochnik, Robert (1915 - 1977)

    Born 1915 in Vienna. Died 1977 in Vienna. Robert Prochnik worked for the Jewish Community from 1938 onwards, working closely together with Benjamin Murmelstein. Prochnik had to work together with the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna and was involved in the transports to the East. In September 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Terezín, where he survived the war. In 1948 he was accused of collaboration with the Nazis, but set free soon afterwards. Prochnik died in 1977.

  11. Löwenherz, Josef (1884 - 1960)

    Born 1884 in Piwowszczyzna (Galicia). Died 1960 in New York. Head of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1938 and 1945. Löwenherz was a Zionist and lawyer and later "Elder of the Jews" in Vienna. In May 1945 he was arrested by the Red Army. Löwenherz died in New York in 1960.

  12. Löw-Danneberg, Franziska ("Franzi") (1916 - 1997)

    Born 1916 in Vienna. Died 1997 in Vienna. Franzi Löw was working in the resistance and was an employee in the Welfare Department of the Jewish Community in Vienna. She took the custodianship for 200 Jewish children and took guadianship for further 20 mentally handicapped children. By forging documents she saved these children from the transport into Death Camps. From 1942 onwards she was leading the Welfare Department of the Jewish Community in Vienna. She helped several Jews hiding with food stamps. Franzi Löw survived in Vienna.

  13. Klang, Heinrich (1875 - 1954)

    Born 1875 in Vienna. Died 1954 in Vienna. Officer in the Austrian-Hungarian Army. President of the Higher Regional Court in Vienna. Professor for civil law. Chief judge of the Ghetto Court in Terezín. Member of the Council of the Elders of the Jews in Terezín. Transported to Terezín in September 1942. Survived.

  14. Feldsberg, Ernst (1894 - ?)

    Born 1894 in Mikulov (Nikolsburg). Feldsberg studied law in Vienna and also worked for the Jewish Community in Vienna from November 1938 onwards. Feldberg became head of the Cemetary Department of the Jewish Community. In 1943 he was transported to Terezín together with his wife, where he survived. Between 1963 and 1970 Ernst Feldsberg was Head of the Jewish Community in Vienna.

  15. Engel, Emil (1881 - 1958)

    Born 1881. Died 1958. Emil Engel was a member of the board of the Jewish Community in Vienna from 1926. Between 1928 and 1940 Engel was head of the Social Welfare Department. Engel emigrated to the United States in 1940.

  16. Ehrlich, Jakob (1877 - 1938)

    Born 1877 in Bystřice pod Hostýnem (Czech Republic). Died 1938 in Dachau. Ehrlich was a Zionist and later represented the Jewish Community in Vienna to the Austro-fascist government. He was transported with the so-called "Prominententransport" (prominent people's transport) to Dachau immediately after the Anschluss where he was executed some weeks later.

  17. Dessauer, Heinrich

    Born 1883 in Vienna. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Lawyer and member of the Jewish Council of the Elders in Vienna. Transported to Terezín in January 1943. Transported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  18. Zucker, Ota (1892 - 1944)

    Born 1892 in Brno. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Architect. Zionist. Worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, was in charge of the Collection "Opfer Aufbau Leben",which rich Jewish citizen contributed to to help Jewish elderly, sick or poor people and orphans. In December 1941 deported to Terezín. Deputy Elder of the Jews in Terezín and member of the Council of the Elders of the Jews in Terezín. Transported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  19. Volavková, Hana (1904 - 1985)

    Born 1904 in Jaroměř. Died 1985 in Prague. Art historian, director of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Worked in Municipal library of Prague, then in the library of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. From 1943 worked for the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Deported to Terezín in February 1945. After WWII worked in the Jewish Museum in Prague, became the director.

  20. Türková, Milada (1906 - 1944)

    Born 1906 in Mníšek pod Brdy. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Worked as a civil servent in Prague. During WWII worked as a correspondent for the Jewish Community in Prague. Her husband was an employee of the Financial Department at the Jewish Community in Prague. She was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944.