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  1. Archbishop Stephan

    19/09/1878

    14/05/1957

    Righteous Among the Nations for the rescue of the 800 Jews through negotiations with the King of Bulgaria ; Head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Sofia during the Holocaust.

  2. Asche Kurt

    • Asche, Kurt Heinrich, 1909-

    11/09/1909

    1998

    War crime trials Kiel. 1935 SD-Hauptamt Berlin, Abt. II B Judenreferat, 1941 SS-Obersturmführer, Nov 1941 with Sipo Brussels, Judenreferat.

  3. Auerswald Heinz

    26/07/1908

    05/12/1970

    Kommissar für den jüdischen Wohnbezirk (Commissioner for the Jewish residential district) (Ghetto) in Warsaw.

  4. Bach-Zelewski Erich von dem

    • Bach, Erich ˜von demœ 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zelewski, Erich von dem Bach-, 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zalewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zalewski, Erich von dem Bach- 1899-1972
    • ...

    01/03/1899

    08/03/1972

    SS-Obergruppenführer , General der Polizei (General of police) (1944). 1938 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Silesia, 1941 HSSPF Russland-Mitte, head of Einsatzgruppe B. Since 21 June 1943 Bevollmächtigter des Reichsführer-SS zur Bandenbekämpfung (murder of Jews and partisans). 1944 suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. End of 1944/1945 Stabschef des Befehlshabers des Ersatzheeres. In the Nuremberg Trials crown witness for the prosecution. Sentenced to life for the murder of three communists in 1961.

  5. Baer Richard

    • Baer, Richard
    • Baer, Richard 1911-1963
    • Baer, Richard
    • Baer, Richard 1911-1963

    09/09/1911

    17/06/1963

    KZ-Kommandant, SS-Sturmbannführer (1944). Commander of Auschwitz since the end of 1944, after its evacuation (January 1945) appointed commander of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

  6. Bandera Stepan

    • Bandera, Stepan, 1908-1959
    • Bandera, Stepan, 1909-1959
    • Bandera, Stefan, 1909-1959
    • Bandera, Stepan A. 1909-1959
    • Бандера, Степан, 1909-1959.
    • ...

    01/01/1909

    15/10/1959

    Ukrainian leader, joined the Orhanizatsyia Ukrainshkykh Natsionalistiv (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN) and soon became one of the leaders of the national organisation in Western Ukraine. Bandera helped the Nazis to set up two Ukrainian battalions, the Nachtigall battalion and the Roland Battalion, with the purpose of carrying out intelligence activities. The OUN-B organized "mobile units," which moved into the Ukraine with the German forces and established the local government and the Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Ukrainian Auxiliary Police). Arrested in September 1941 and sent to...

  7. Barasz Efraim

    1892

    Chairman of the Bialystok Judenrat.

  8. Barbie Klaus

    • Barbie, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • Hansen, Klaus Altmann, 1913-1991
    • Barbie, Nikolaus, 1913-1991
    • Altmann Hansen, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • Barbon, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • ...

    25/10/1913

    25/09/1991

    Gestapo chief in Lyon, France.

  9. Bauminger Heshek

    01/01/1919

    31/03/1943

    Jewish resistance fighter in the Cracow ghetto.

  10. Baur André

    • Baur, André, 1904-1944
    • Baur, André, 1904-
    • Baur, André, b. 1904

    01/01/1904

    1944

    President of the Union générale des israélites de France, murdered in Auschwitz with his wife and children.

  11. Beckerle Adolf Heinz

    • Beckerle, Adolf H. 1902-1976
    • Beckerle, Adolf-Heinz 1902-1976 Vollstaendiger Name

    04/02/1902

    03/04/1976

    SA-Obergruppenführer. German consul in Bulgaria, involved in the deportation of Bulgarian Jews.

  12. Begma Vasiliy

    01/01/1906

    12/08/1965

    Communist. One of the leaders of the partisan/underground movement in Ukraine during WWII.

  13. Belev Alexander

    07/07/1900

    09/09/1944

    Commissar of Jewish affairs. Lawyer. Leader of the antisemitic group Ratnitsi Napreduka na Bulgarshtinata. Responsible for plans for the deportation of Bulgarian Jews and Jews in Bulgarian occupied Greece and Yugoslavia.

  14. Benes Edvard

    • Beneš, Edvard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Eduard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edward, 1884-1948
    • Bénès, Edouard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edvard, Pres. Czechoslovak Republic, 1884-1948
    • ...

    28/05/1884

    03/09/1948

    Czech and Czechoslovak politician, diplomat, president in 1935-48, president of the exile government in London during the war.

  15. Beregfy Károly

    12/02/1888

    12/03/1946

    Hungarian military officer and politician. Minister of Defence in the Szálasi Cabinet in 1944-1945. In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  16. Berger Gottlob

    • Berger, Gottlob, 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob Christian 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob
    • Berger, Gotlob, 1896-1975

    16/07/1896

    05/01/1975

    SS-Obergruppenführer, General der Waffen-SS, head of the SS-Hauptamt.

  17. Berman Léon

    • Berman, Léon

    07/05/1892

    31/10/1943

    Rabbi of Lille 1936-1939 and historian.

  18. Bernheim André

    • Bernheim, André, 1877-1963

    25/10/1877

    02/12/1963

    Doctor. Vice president of Consistoire central. Collector of Jewish art.

  19. Biberstein Ernst

    • Biberstein, Ernst
    • Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski-Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986

    05/02/1899

    08/12/1986

    Commander of Einsatzkommando 6, Christian theologian by profession, SS-Sturmbannführer (1939).

  20. Biebow Hans

    • Biebow, Hans
    • Biebow, Hans, 1902-1947

    18/12/1902

    23/06/1947

    Leiter (Head) of the Ghettoverwaltung (ghetto administration) Lodz. Organiser of deportations from Lodz to the extermination camp Chelmno. Sentenced to death 30.04.1947 in Poland.