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  1. Dannecker Theodor

    • Dannecker, Theodor
    • Dannecker, Theodor, 1913-1945
    • Dannecker, Theo, 1913-1945

    27/03/1913

    10/12/1945

    SS-Hauptsturmführer (1942). 1934 Wachtrupp Columbia-House Berlin, then SS-Wachverband Brandenburg. Since 1937 member of Eichmann's staff in SD-Hauptamt. Sept 1940 Leiter (head) of the Judenreferat for the Befehlshaber (commander) of the Sipo and SD (BdS) Belgium-France. Jan 1943 Sonderkommando Eichmann in Hungary, since Oct 1944 Judenreferent of the BdS Italy. Suicide in US imprisonment.

  2. Hunsche Otto

    • Hunsche, Otto 1912-

    15/09/1911

    Regierungsrat in RSHA. A member of Eichmann's referat IV B 4b in the RSHA. In 1944 participated in Sonderkommando Eichmann which was responsible for the concentration and deportation of the Jews of Hungary.

  3. Weissmandel Michael Dov

    • Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 1904?-1957
    • וייסמנדל, רחמ״ד
    • וויסמאנדל, מיכאל דוב
    • ווייסמאנדל, מיכאל בער, ?1904־1957
    • ווייסמאנדל, חיים מיכאל דוב, 1957־?1904
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    1903

    1956

    Rabbi in Slovakia. Helped halt the deportation of Slovakian Jews for two years, through the organisation Working Group, who bribed German and Slovakian officials. Created the Europa Plan the rescue European Jews Jews in hte same way. In 1944 broadcast the so called Auschwitz Protocols about the mass exterminations. Escaped from Auschwitz, settled in the United States. \

  4. Черкаська народна районна поліція, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy District People's Police, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska narodna raionna politsiia, m. Cherkasy

  5. Адресне бюро Черкаської української охоронної поліції, м. Черкаси

    • Address bureau of Cherkasy Ukrainian Schutzpolizei, city of Cherkasy
    • Adresne biuro Cherkaskoi ukrainskoi okhoronnoi politsii, m. Cherkasy

  6. Związek Patriotów Polskich

    • Union of Polish Patriots
    • ZPP

    Founded in 1943

    Związek Patriotów Polskich was a pro-communist political organization, founded in the Soviet Union in 1943. Comprised of Polish Communists living in Soviet exile, it was obviously intended to promote Soviet objectives in Poland once the Germans were driven out. The Związek Patriotów Polskich was organized around a new weekly journal, Wolna Polska (Free Poland), and contained articles written by several leading Polish Communists.

  7. Armia Krajowa

    • Heimatarmee
    • AK

    1942-02-14/1945-01-20

    Subordinated to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland) and the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) formed on 1942-02-14 the Armia Krajowa. During the war it became an umbrella organization of resistance groups. Attacks were limited to confiscating supplies, burning food-quota documents, and, perhaps, crippling machinery. This modus operandi denoted the desire of the independentists to avoid German reprisals against the people and the destruction of property which, after all, was Polish and would be used after the ...

  8. Narodowe Siły Zbrojne

    • National Armed Force
    • NSZ

    Founded in 1942

    Narodowe Siły Zbrojne was a right-wing, nationalist Polish resistance group that hated Jews, communists, and liberals. They refused to recognize the authority of the Armia Krajowa and operated independently. During the war, they murdered hundreds of Jewish partisans and others seeking asylum. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne terrorized and killed Jewish survivors after the war.

  9. Черкаська районна управа, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy district board, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska raionna uprava

  10. Видавництво газети "Українська думка" - орган Черкаської районної управи, м. Черкаси

    • Editorial board of the "Ukrainska Dumka" newspaper, an official organ of Cherkasy district board, Cherkasy city
    • Vydavnytstvo hasety "Ukrainska dumka" - orhan Cherkaskoi raionnoi upravy

  11. Управління Служби безпеки України в Черкаській області м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine, city of Cherkasy, Cherkasy region
    • Upravlinnia Sluzhby Bezpeky Ukrainy v Cherkaskii oblasti, m. Cherkasy Cherkaskoi oblasti

  12. Черкаська біржа праці, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy labour registry office, Cherkasy city
    • Cherkaska birzha pratsi, m. Cherkasy

  13. people's court

    The twenty-four regional courts in post–World War II Hungary set up in 1945 primarily for the investigation of war crimes. The members of the people’s courts were predominantly political delegates and generally lacked law degrees. About sixty thousand people were tried in the people’s courts in the postwar years, and roughly twenty-seven thousand were found guilty. Of these, 477 people were sentenced to death, and 189 were actually executed.

  14. U.S. Department of State

  15. Foreign Office

  16. Saugumo policijos ir SD vado Lietuvai Kriminalinės policijos Alytaus rajonas

    • Security Police and SD Commander of the Lithuanian Criminal Police in Alytus district

    Security Police and SD Commander of the Lithuanian Criminal Police in Alytus district was established in 1941 since the begining of the WWII and was in charge of arrests of communists, Jews and all suspected and criminal residents.

  17. Vilniaus žydų tikybinė bendruomenė

    • Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Wilnie
    • Vilnius Jewish Religious Community

    Vilnius Jewish Religious Community was established in 1919. The activities of the community were controlled by the municipality of Vilnius city, Board of Vilnius Voivodeship and the Ministery of Religious and Public Education of the Republic of Poland. On 16 September 1940 community was closed by the Soviet Authorities.

  18. Γεώργιος Καραμάνης

    • Georgios Karamanis

    A famous doctor (1873-1964) in Greece.

  19. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Vašingtone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC

    Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC was established in August 1924.

  20. Lietuvos pasiuntinybė Londone

    • Lithuanian Embassy in London

    Lithuanian Embassy in London was established in January 1919. In the year of WWII tried to spead information all over the world about the situation in Lithuania.