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  1. Levi Primo

    • Леви, Примо
    • לוי, פרימו
    • Levi, Primo
    • Levi, Primo, 1919-1987
    • Malabaila, Damiano, 1919-1987
    • ...

    31/07/1919

    11/04/1987

    Writer, chemist and Holocaust-survivor. Noted for autobiographical accounts of survival in Auschwitz

  2. Levy Albert

    • Lévy, Albert 1923-2008
    • Lévy, Albert, 1923-

    04/04/1923

    08/09/2008

    President of the CAR (Comite d'Assistance aux Refugies) and first president of the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) 1941 - 1942Journalist. Secretary General (1970-1988) and member of the presidency of the Movement against Racism and for Friendship among Peoples (1988-1991). Oppositionist

  3. Liebehenschel Arthur

    • Liebehenschel, Arthur, 1901-1948
    • Liebehenschel, Arthur
    • Liebehenschel, Arthur Wilhelm 1901-1948

    25/11/1901

    24/01/1948

    Commandant of Auschwitz extermination camp (1943/1944) and Majdanek extermination camp (May 1944--).

  4. Lohse Hinrich

    • Lohse, Hinrich
    • Lohse, Hinrich 1896-1964

    02/09/1896

    25/02/1964

    Reichskommissar Ostland (Baltikum and Belarussia) from 1941

  5. Löwenherz Josef

    • Löwenherz, Josef Israel

    1884

    1960

    Head of the Jewish community (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde) in Vienna from 1936 and during the Nazi occupation of Austria.

  6. Mangier Icyk

    30/05/1901

    21/02/1969

    Yiddish writer and poet.

  7. Markish Peretz

    • Markish, Peretz, 1895-1952
    • Marḳish, Perets 1895-1952
    • Markisza, P., 1895-1952
    • Markisch, Peretz, 1895-1952
    • Markiš, Perec Davidovič, 1895-1952
    • ...

    1895

    1952

    Yiddish writer and poet; member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and of the editorial board of its journal, Eynikayt.

  8. Marthinsen Karl A.

    • Marthinsen, Karl A. 1896-1945
    • Marthinsen, Karl Alfred Nicolay
    • Marthinsen, Karl A. (Karl Alfred), 1896-1945
    • Marthinsen, Karl

    1896

    08/02/1945

    Head of the state police department during WWII. Central figure behind the deportations of Norwegian Jews

  9. Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue

    • Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue, 1850-1937
    • マサリック
    • マサリク, T. G
    • Masaryk, Tomás G., 1850-1937
    • Masaryk, Thomas-Garrigue, 1850-1937
    • ...

    07/03/1850

    14/09/1937

    Founder and first president (1918-35) of Czechoslovakia. Fought Anti-Semitism. Sympathetic to Zionism

  10. Masaryk Jan Garrigue

    • Masaryk, Jan, 1886-1948
    • Masarik, Jan, 1886-1948
    • Masaryk, Jan Garrigue, 1886-1948
    • מאסאריק, יאן, 1886־1948
    • Masaryk, Jan 1886-1948
    • ...

    14/09/1886

    10/03/1948

    Foreign minister in the Czech exile government and post-war coalition. Fought against Antisemitism during the war. Son of T.G. Masaryk

  11. Maurer Gerhard

    09/12/1907

    22/12/1947

    Head of Amtsgruppe D II, in the SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS-WVHA), responsible for slave labour in concentration camps, since November 1943 deputy (Stellvertreter) of the Inspekteur der Konzentrationslager

  12. Mayer René

    • Mayer, René. (1895-1972).
    • Mayer, René

    1895

    1972

    French politician and Prime Minister from 1953. Resistance member.

  13. Meiss Leon

    • Meiss, Léon

    17/03/1896

    Lawyer, founder and leader for "le Conseil représentatif des israélites de France" during WWII. Active in saving French Jews.

  14. Mengele Josef

    • Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979?
    • Mengele, Joseph, 1911-1979?
    • Mengele, Josef, 1911-
    • Mengele, Joseph (Josef), 1911-1979
    • メンゲレ
    • ...

    16/03/1911

    07/02/1979

    Nazi chief doctor at Auschwitz. Participated in selections and organised medical experiments on prisoners. Escaped to Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil after the war.

  15. Merin Mosheh

    1906

    1943

    Leader of the Jewish council (Judenrat) in Sosnowiec during WWII. Deported to Auschwitz

  16. Meyer Alfred

    05/10/1891

    11/04/1945

    Nazi official, Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Participated in Wannsee Conference.

  17. Mikhalev Petar

    Bulgarian National Assembly deputy who protested the deportation of Jews =

  18. Mikhoels Solomon Mikhailovich

    1890

    1948

    Yiddish actor and director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre. Chair of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Comitee from 1941

  19. Mildner Rudolf

    • Mildner, Rudolf

    10/07/1902

    Gestapo Chief various places including Kattowitz (1941/43) head of the political department, the SS and police court (Standgericht) at Auschwitz. 1943 Gestapo chief in Copenhagen, 1944 head of Abteilung IV A 5 (Sonderaufgaben) in the RSHA, since December 1944 head of Sicherheitspolizei und and SD in Wien

  20. Moch Maurice

    • Moch, Maurice, 1902-1972

    1902

    12/1972

    Secretary and archivist of the Consistoire Central des Israelites de France 1925 -1972