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  1. Korczak Janusz

    • Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942
    • Goldszmit, Henryk, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorts'aḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • קורצאק, יאנוש, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorṭshaḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • ...

    22/07/1878

    1942

    Jewish educator, author, doctor, refused protection from the Judenrat, August 1942 deported from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, together with the 200 children in his care.

  2. Koretz Zvi

    • Koretz, Zvi ca. 20.Jh.

    1894

    1945

    Rabbi in Greece. Bergen-Belsen, Terezin, died 3 months after liberation.

  3. Kovpak Sidor

    • Kovpak, S. A. 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sydir Artemovych, 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sidor Artemʹevich, 1887-1967
    • Kowpak, A. S.
    • Kovpak, S.
    • ...

    07/06/1887

    11/12/1967

    Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine.

  4. Kramer Josef

    • Kramer, Josef, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Josef

    10/11/1906

    13/12/1945

    KZ-Kommandant and SS-Hauptsturmführer. Since 1934 in Dachau, 1937/1938 in Sachsenhausen, 1939 in Mauthausen, May 1940 in Auschwitz, April 1941 Schutzhaftlagerführer , Oct 1942 Kommandant in Natzweiler, since May 1944 Kommandant in Auschwitz-Birkenau, since 1 Dec 1944 in Bergen-Belsen. Sentenced to death in Belsen Trial, executed.

  5. Krausz Miklós

    01/01/1908

    1985

    Hungarian Jewish Zionist activist. In 1932 he was appointed as the general secretary of the "Mizrahi" and “Hapoel Hamizrahi” organisations in Hungary. In 1934 he was the secretary of the Eretz-Israel Office in Budapest and from 1938 to 1946 its manager. In April 1944, a few weeks after the German invasion of Hungary, all the 7,800 certificates that were not used by Jews, who were deported or exterminated by the Nazis all over Europe, arrived. But after Romania switched alliance to the Russians (23.8.1944) the way to Palestine was blocked. The Swiss consul, Carl Lutz obtained from the Hungar...

  6. Kritzinger Friedrich

    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm 1890-1947

    14/04/1890

    31/10/1947

    1938 Ministerialdirektor in the Reichskanzlei, since 1942 Staatssekretär (second in command after Lammers). Participant of the Wannsee Conference. Internment 1945/46, released due to illness, died in hospital.

  7. Kroeger Erhard

    • Kroeger, Erhard, 1905-1987
    • Kroeger, Erhard.
    • Kroeger, Erhard, 1905-
    • Kroeger, Erhard, b. 1905

    24/03/1905

    SS-Oberführer (1941). Head of Einsatzkommando 6 since Nov 1941.

  8. Krüger Friedrich-Wilhelm

    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilehlm, 1894-1957
    • Krüger, Friedrich-Wilhelm 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich W. 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • ...

    08/05/1894

    10/05/1945

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1935), General der Polizei (General of Police). 1935 in the Stab Reichsführer SS, 1936 SS-Hauptamt. Since Oct 1939 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Ost in Krakow, in addition since May 1942 "Staatssekretär für das Sicherheitswesen im Generalgouvernement". Commanded what was later called the "Blutsonntag von Stanislau" (Bloody Sunday of Stanislawów) on 12 Oct 1941, a mass killing with 12,000 Jews shot. Suicide.

  9. Krumey Hermann

    • Krumey, Hermann, 1905-

    18/04/1905

    27/11/1981

    SS-Obersturmbannführer, Leader of the Umwandererzentrale Lodz (1940-1944), 1944 appointed Kommandoführer of the Sonderkommandos in Budapest.

  10. Kurtev Vladimir

    19/10/1888

    07/06/1946

    Righteous Among the Nations

  11. Kvitko Leib

    • Kvitko, Leib, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, Leyb, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, L., 1890-1952
    • קוויטקאָ, לייב, 1890-1952
    • Kwiṭko, Leib 1890-1952
    • ...

    01/01/1890

    12/08/1952

    Yiddish poet and novelist.

  12. Lachal Raymond

    • Lachal, Raymond 1898-1963

    04/05/1898

    11/01/1963

    French politician and parliament member

  13. Lagarde Abbe

    Catholic priest who helped hiding Jews. Prisoner of war at Bergen-Belsen

  14. Lambert Raymond-Raoul

    • Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, 1894-1943
    • Lambert, Raymond-Raoul

    1894

    1943

    Jewish organisations activist in Vichy-France. Author of a diary

  15. Lammers Hans Heinrich

    • Lammers, Hans Heinrich, 1879-1962
    • Lammers, Hans-Heinrich 1879-1962
    • Lammers, Hans H. 1879-1962
    • Lammers, H.-H. 1879-1962
    • Lammers, H.-H.
    • ...

    27/05/1897

    04/01/1962

    Reichminister and Chef der Reichskanzlei in the rank of a Reichminister.

  16. Lange Rudolf

    • Lange, Rudolf
    • Lange, Rudolf 1910-

    18/04/1910

    1945

    Lawyer, SS- Standartenführer. Commander of Einsatzkommando 2; later KdS (der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD) in Latvia; Wannsee Conference participant

  17. Lasch Karl

    • Lasch, Karl 1904-1942
    • Lasch.
    • Lasch, K.
    • Lasch, Karl.

    29/12/1904

    03/06/1942

    Governor of the district of Radom 1939-1941, then Governor of the district of Galizien 1941-1942

  18. Laval Pierre

    • Laval, Pierre, 1883-1945
    • Laval, Pierre
    • Laval, Pierre (Pierre Jean Marie), 1883-1945

    26/06/1883

    15/10/1945

    French politician, political head of Vichy France

  19. Lejkin Jakob

    1906

    16/10/1942

    Deputy chief of the police in Warsaw ghetto

  20. Lesage Gilbert

    • Lesage, Gilbert 1910-1989

    19/05/1910

    06/1944

    Head of the SSE (Service Social des Etrangers) in Vichy France. Quaker-activist. Righteous among the Nations