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  1. Schück, Viktor (1896 - 1943)

    Born 1896. Died 1943 in Auschwitz. Photographer. One of five photographers who are known to have worked for the Jewish Community in Prague during the war. From the remaining records it seems, that whilst others were involved more with news footage, Viktor Schück was employed at the Central Jewish Museum where he specialised in documenting collection pieces, buildings and cemeteries. Deported to Terezín in July 1943. Transported to Auschwitz in September 1943.

  2. Rubens, Arnošt (1915 - 1945)

    Born 1915. Died 1945 in Auschwitz or Dachau. In 1933 emigrated to Palestine. Expelled from the country by the authorities due to his political (Communist) activities. Returned to Prague, studied medicine. During WWII worked at the Treuhandstelle at the Jewish Community in Prague. Unsuccessfully tried to get visa to USA and Australia. Deported to Terezín in September 1943. Transported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  3. Polák, Josef (1886 - 1945)

    Born 1886 in Prague. In 1945 dissappeared without trace in Auschwitz. Art historian, museum specialist. Czech-Jew. Director of the state East Slovak Museum in Košice. In 1942 became the main curator of the Jewish Central Museum in Prague. Became involed in the resistance movement, arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944.

  4. Muneles, Otto (1894 - 1967)

    Born 1894 in Prague. Died 1967 in Prague. Important Hebrew scholar and historian. At the beginning of WWI travelled together with his friend Jiří Mordechai Langer (author of Nine Gates) to Galicia, stayed in a Hasidic community in Belz and spent several years in Rzeczic, where he studied halakha and hasidic liturature. Received rabbinic ordination. In 1922 returned to Prague, was active in Chevra kadisha. During WWII worked for the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Deportated to Terezín in July 1943, worked in the library, cataloged Hebrew books that had been confiscated from libraries by th...

  5. Kronberger, František (1904 - ?)

    Born 1904. Was a motorcycle and car racer, as well as a salesman for JAWA motorcycle and cars and the Zlín Z-XII aircraft produced by the Baťa company. In 1932 they won the silver medal for Czechoslovakia at the legendary International Six Days Trial. During WWII an employee of the Personnel Office at the Jewish Community in Prague. Together with his son Ivan he survived the war in Prague. He was not deported due to his (so-called) mixed marriage.

  6. Kolár, Erik (* 18.4.1906 - 1976)

    Born 1906 in Prague. Died 1976 in Switzerland. Studied law. Worked for the Council of the Elders in Prague, from 1942 head of the Department Registration of the Jews. Deported to Terezín in March 1945. After WWII worked as script writer, publicist, theatre reviewer. Emigrated to Switzerland.

  7. Knapp, Viktor (1913 - 1996)

    Born 1913 in Prague. Died 1996. Lawyer. During WWII an employee of the Jewish Community in Prague. One of the leading figure of the Prague´s lawyer community after WWII. 1948 - 1954 was the head of the political section of the President´s Office. Worked as a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague (1951-1990s). Member of the Federal Assembly until 1971.

  8. Hájek, Hugo (1903 - 1950s)

    Born 1903 in Prague. Died in the 1950s. Civil servant. Unsuccessfully tried to get visa to USA. From 1944 worked at workshop of the Council of the Elders in Prague. Deported to Terezín in February 1945.

  9. Gutmannová, Františka (1899 - 1944)

    Born 1899. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Baroness Františka Gutmannová (neé Mayová) was the wife of the industrial magnate Vilém Gutmann, co-owner of Gebrüder Gutmann. Amongst other things, this company owned coal mines in Upper Silesia and, with the Rothschilds, founded what is now the Vítkovice Ironworks. Vilém Gutmann emigrated before the outbreak of war. Františka remained alone in Prague with her four children Eliška, Zuzana, Gertruda and František. During WWII she worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, in the stock of the Treuhandstelle. In the summer of 1944, together with her children...

  10. Grün, Vilém (1903 - 1945)

    Born 1903 in Slovanské Lhota. Died in 1950. Worked for the Electrical Utilities of Prague as driver and ticket collector. Was a football referee. During WWII employee of the Jewish Community in Prague, not certain of what department. Unsuccessfully tried to emigrate to Shanghai. He was not deported due to his (so-called) mixed marriage with Božena Hlaváčková. In 1947 changed family surname to Jánský.

  11. Fischer, Vilém (1898 - 1956)

    Born 1898 in Český Krumlov. Died 1956 in Jindřichův Hradec. Engineer in a textile factory. Studied at technical university in Vienna. During WWI he served in Galicia. Worked in Southern Bohemia in a textile factory. During WWII he worked for the Jewish Community in Prague at the Jewish Labour Department. Deported to Terezín in February 1945. After the war he returned to work in the same textile factory.

  12. Fischer, Ludwig (1893 - 1945)

    Born 1893 in Dobříš. Died most probably 1945 in Prague. Worked for insurance company Koruna in Prague. During WWII employee of the Jewish Community in Prague, worked at the Department for Emigration. In August 1940 he was arrested for a few days for an unknown reason.

  13. Federer, Zdeněk (1900 - ?)

    Born 1900 in Řečany nad Labem. Businessman. In 1913 moved with his parents to Vienna. After annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany converted to Roman Catholic Church and moved back to Czechoslovakia. During WWII employee of the Jewish Community in Prague, but the exact department is unknown. Deported to Terezín in February 1945. After WWII moved to Děčín.

  14. Bonn, Hanuš (1913 - 1941)

    Born 1913. Died 1941 in Mauthausen. Czech Jew. Poet, reviewer, translator. Worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, Head of the Department for Emigration. In October 1941 forced by the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague to gather 5 transports of Jews from Prague, but complained that the time given by the Central office is too short. In October 1941 he was denounced and with his deputy to Mauthausen as a punishment.

  15. Beranová, Olga (1898 - ?)

    Born 1898 in Trněný Újezd. During WWII an employee of the Jewish Community in Prague, in the Personnel Office. Deported to Terezín in February 1945. After WWII worked for the company Kley in Prague, which specialised in textiles.

  16. Lietuvių saugumo policijos Vilniaus apygarda

    • Litauische Sicherheitspolizei Bezirk Wilna
    • Lithuanian Security police of Vilnius district

    Chief of Lithuanian Security police of Vilnius district was Aleksandras Lileikis.

  17. Ιερά Σύνοδος της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος

    • Holy Synod of the Church of Greece

  18. Vilniaus sunkiųjų darbų kalėjimas (Vilniaus Lukiškių kalėjimas)

    • Das Lukischki-Gefängnis in Wilna
    • The hard-labour prison in Vilnius (Lukiškės Prison) of the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice

    The prison became more notorious during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, when it was used by the Gestapo and Lithuanian Security Police as a holding cell for thousands of Jews from the Vilna Ghetto. The majority were taken to the outskirts of Vilnius and executed at Ponary (Paneriai). When Soviets reoccupied the territory in 1944, the prison was returned to the NKVD.

  19. Vilniaus apygardos teismo prokuroras

    • Staatsanwalt beim Bezirksgericht Wilna
    • Prosecutor of Vilnius district court

  20. Άγγελος Παπαιωάννου

    • Angelos Papaioannou