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  1. Rossner Alfred

    1906

    1943

    Saved numerous Jewish lives as manager of a confiscated Jewish textile factory in the Bedzin ghetto. Arrested and executed by Gestapo for his actions.

  2. Röthke Heinz

    • Röthke, Heinz 1912-1966
    • Rothke, Heinz

    19/01/1912

    14/07/1966

  3. Rothmund Heinrich

    • Rothmund, Heinrich, 1888-1961

    06/07/1888

    08/04/1961

    Head of the Police Division of the Federal Department of Justice and Police

  4. Safran Alexandru

    • Safran, Alexandre, 1910-2006
    • Şafran, Alexandru, 1910-2006
    • Safran, Alexandre
    • Șafran, Alexandru
    • Śafran, Aleksander Y.
    • ...

    1910

    2006

    Chief Rabbi of Romania from 1940 to 1947 and philopsopher of Judaism. One of the signatories of a memorandum objecting to the closing of synagoges (1940)

  5. Sagalowitz Benjamin

    • Sagalowitz, Benjamin 1901-1970

    03/06/1901

    04/06/1970

  6. Saliege Jules-Geraud

    24/02/1870

    05/11/1956

    Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop of Toulouse (from 1928), elevated to the cardinalate in 1946. Protested against the Nazi treatmen of the Jews. Righteous among the Nations

  7. Sammern-Frankenegg Ferdinand von

    • Sammern und Frankenegg, Ferdinand ˜vonœ 1897-1944
    • Sammern-Frankenegg, Ferdinand von 1897-1944
    • Frankenegg, Ferdinand von Sammern und 1897-1944
    • Sammern-Frankenegg, Ferdinand von

    17/03/1897

    20/09/1944

    Police leader of the Warsaw area (1942) . Responsible of the deportation of 300 000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka

  8. Sandberger Martin

    • Sandberger, Martin

    17/08/1911

    30/03/2010

    Commander of Sonderkommando 1a (1941) and commander of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in Estonia. Important in the mass murder of the Jews in the Baltic states

  9. Sauckel Fritz

    27/10/1894

    16/10/1946

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in Thüringen (since 1927),General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) 1942/1945. Organized the systematic enslavement of millions of foreign citizens.

  10. Sauer Albert

    18/08/1898

    03/05/1945

    Commandant of KZ Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen (1938-39)

  11. Schacht Hjalmar

    • Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Horace Greeley Hjalmar, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Hjalmar, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Hjalmar
    • Schacht, H.
    • ...

    22/01/1877

    03/06/1970

    President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Forced out of the government in 1937 because of disagreements with Hitler.

  12. Schellenberg Walter

    • Schellenberg, Walter, 1910-1952
    • Šelenber, Wālter.
    • Schellenberg, Walter, 1910-
    • Schellenberg, Walter
    • Šellenberg, Val'ter 1910-1952
    • ...

    16/08/1910

    31/03/1952

    Supreme head of the espionage services in the Third Reich, and second to Himmler in the Gestapo hierarchy. Head of Amt VI (Auslandsnachrichtendienst) of the RSHA and since 1944 the demise of the "Abwehr".

  13. Schindhelm Hans-Gerhard

    05/07/1908

    Head of Einsatzkommando 8 (Nov 1942-Oct 1943), Einsatzgruppe B9 (1943-). At Gestapo (SIPO) and SD Cracow (since November 1943).

  14. Schirach Baldur von

    • Schirach, Baldur ˜vonœ 1907-1974
    • Von Schirach, Baldur, 1907-1974
    • Schirach, Baldur von
    • シーラッハ,
    • Schirach, Baldur von (Baldur Benedikt), 1907-1974

    09/03/1907

    08/08/1974

    Reich Youth leader. Governor of Vienna since 1941. Participated in the deportation of Vienna's Jews

  15. Schlegelberger Franz

    • Schlegelberger, Franz 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Quassowski, ... 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Liesecke, ... 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Hoche, ... 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Harmening, ... 1876-1970
    • ...

    23/10/1876

    14/12/1970

    State secretary of the German Ministry of Justice, and acting Minister of Justice 1941/1942.

  16. Schmelt Albrecht

    • Schmelt, Albrecht, 1899-1945

    19/08/1899

    SS-Oberführer,head of police in Breslau. Coordinated all programs designed to exploit Jewish labour, "Operation Schmelt".

  17. Schmitt Kurt

    • Schmitt, Kurt
    • Schmitt, Kurt 1886-1950
    • Schmitt, Kurt Paul 1886-1950

    07/10/1886

    22/11/1950

    Reichswirtschaftsminister June 1933 - July 1934. Replaced by Schacht

  18. Schneersohn Isaac

    • Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Shneursohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Schneerson, Yossef Yitzchok, 1880-1950
    • Schneerson, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Schneersohn, Yosef Yitzchok, 1880-1950
    • ...

    1969

    Established Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation.

  19. Schonberg Bernhard

    1908

    1944

    Rabbi, associated with Great Rabbi of Lyon, deported to Auschwitz 26.5.1943.

  20. Schöngarth Eberhard

    • Schoengarth, Karl Eberhard
    • Schöngarth, Eberhard 1903-1946
    • Schöngarth, Karl Eberhard 1903-1946
    • Schöngarth, Eberhard (Karl Eberhard), 1903-1946

    22/04/1903

    16/05/1946

    Headed several Gestapo offices. January 1941 appointed Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) in the Generalgouvernement. July 1941 appointed Führer of the Einsatzgruppe z.B.V. Responsible for mass murders in Galicia. June 1944 appoined BdS in the Netherland.