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  1. Wagner Robert

    • Wagner, Robert, 1895-1946
    • Backfisch, Robert Heinrich, 1895-1946
    • Wagner, Robert

    13/10/1895

    14/08/1946

    Gauleiter of Alcace-Baden. Carried out the deportation of 6500 Jews from Gaue of Baden and Saarpflaz. One of Hitler's earliest followers.

  2. Wasser Bluma

    1912

    1990

    Survivor, member of the underground Oyneg Shabbos Archive in the Warsaw ghetto.

  3. Wasser Hersz

    1912

    1981

    Survivor, secretary of the underground Oyneg Shabbos Archive in the Warsaw ghetto.

  4. Weizsäcker Ernst Baron Von

    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von (1882-1951).
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 1882-1951
    • Von Weizsäcker, Ernst, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst Heinrich, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • ...

    12/05/1882

    04/08/1951

    1938-1943, State Secretary at the Foreign Office 1943-1945 German Ambassador to the Holy See.

  5. Wilner Izrael Chaim

    1917

    1943

    Jewish resistance fighter. One of the founders of ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organisation), a liason between Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) and Polish Home Army.

  6. Wirth Christian

    • Wirth, Christian, 1885-1944
    • Wirth, Christian

    24/11/1885

    26/05/1944

    SS Major and head of the death camps organisation in Poland (1942-43). One of the leaders of Aktion T4 (Euthanasia), first commander of Belzec eath camp.

  7. Wisliceny Dieter

    • Wisliceny, Dieter, 1911-
    • Wisliceny, Dieter, 1911-1948
    • Wisliceny, Dieter

    13/01/1911

    27/02/1948

    SS Major, Eichmann's deputy and "deportation expert". Responsible for mass deportation and murder of Jews from Slovakia, Greece and Hungary.

  8. Wöhrn Fritz

    12/03/1905

    1940- as specialist (Mischlingfragen) at Judenreferat.

  9. Yerushalmi Eliezer

    • Yerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • Jerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר
    • Yerushalmi, A., 1900-1962
    • ...

    Member of "the delegation" in Siaulilai ghetto (Lithuania). Kept a diary giving an account of events in the ghetto.

  10. Zapp Paul

    • Zapp, Paul 1904-

    18/04/1904

    1941-42 Commander of Sonderkommando 11a, commander of security police in Simferopol.

  11. Zöpf Wilhelm

    11/03/1908

    Member of Eichmann's Referat IV B4. 1941-44 Officer of Sicherheitspolizei and SD in The Hague.

  12. Zorin Shalom

    1902

    1974

    Jewish partisan commander (Zorin Unit), escaped from Minsk ghetto.

  13. Zuckerman Yitzhak

    • Zuckerman, Yitzhak, 1915-1981
    • Antek, 1915-1981
    • Cukierman, Icchak, 1915-1981
    • צוקערמאן, יצחק, 1915-1981
    • Zuckerman, Isaac, 1915-1981
    • ...

    13/12/1915

    19/06/1981

    Hero of Jewish armed resistance. One of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  14. Zuskin Veniamin

    • Zuskin, Benjamin
    • Zusḳin, Binyomin 1899-1952
    • Zuskin, Veniamin Lʹvovič 1899-1952
    • Zusḳin, Binyamin 1899-1952
    • Zuskin, Veniamin, 1899-1952
    • ...

    1899

    1952

    Famous actor at the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre.

  15. Zygelbaum Samuel

    1895

    1943

    Bund-activist, left Warsaw in 1940 for New York. Bund-delegate to the Polish National Council in London (1942).

  16. Brandt Karl

    • Brandt, Karl, ca. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl, 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl
    • Brandt, K. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Carl 1904-1948

    08/01/1904

    02/06/1948

    Brandt headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 onwards and was selected as Adolf Hitler's personal physician in August 1934.

  17. Daladier Édouard

    • Daladier, Édouard, 1884-1970
    • Daladʹe, Ė. 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Édouard
    • Daladier, Édouard 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Edouard, 1884-

    18/06/1884

    10/10/1970

    Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.

  18. Demjanjuk John Iwan

    • דמיאניוק, ג'ון, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, Ivan, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, G'ohn, 1920-2012
    • Demjanjuk, Iwan, 1920-2012
    • דמיניוק, ג'ון
    • ...

    03/04/1920

    17/12/2012

    Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced him to death. Demjanjuk appealed the verdict, and in 1993, he was acquitted because...

  19. Gebelev Lievovich Mikhail

    • Gebelev, Mikhail
    • Гебелев, Михаил

    15/10/1905

    15/08/1942

    Commander of the underground forces in ghetto Minsk.

  20. Canaris Wilhelm

    • Canaris, Wilhelm, 1887-1945
    • Kanāriss, Vilhelms, 1887-1945
    • Канарис, Вильгельм, 1887-1945
    • Canaris, Wilhelm
    • Kanaris, Vilʹgelʹm, 1887-1945
    • ...

    01/01/1887

    09/04/1945

    German admiral, and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.