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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Person

  5. Hans Günther SS-Stubaf.

    Born 1910 in Erfurt. Died 1945. SS-Sturmbannführer, Head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague, in charge of the deportation of the Jews from The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos and concentration camps during the WWII. Killed by the partisans in May 1945.

  6. Storfer, Berthold (1884 - 1944)

    Born 1884 in Czernowitz. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Storfer was a banker. After 1938 he became head of the Committee for Jewish overseas transports. Storfer organised the emigration of Jews from the German Reich and the "Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia" to Palestine. Storfer was sent to Auschwitz where he was murdered in 1944.

  7. Kolár, Erik (* 18.4.1906 - 1976)

    Born 1906 in Prague. Died 1976 in Switzerland. Studied law. Worked for the Council of the Elders in Prague, from 1942 head of the Department Registration of the Jews. Deported to Terezín in March 1945. After WWII worked as script writer, publicist, theatre reviewer. Emigrated to Switzerland.

  9. Weigl, Arnošt (* 14.6.1906)

    Born 1906 in Prague. Died 1968. Lawyer. During WWII head of the Personnel Office at the Jewish Community in Prague, probably between November 1942 and the end of the war. He was not deported due to his (so-called) mixed marriage. After the war worked for various ministries.

  11. Heinrich Neumann

    otorhinolaryngologist, was sent to Evian in 1938

  13. Rothenberg, Alois (1894 - ?)

    Born 1894. Rothenberg was an Austrian Zionist and Director of the Palestine Office in Vienna between 1938 and 1940. Rothenberg emigrated in 1940.

  15. Konstantin von Neurath, SS-Ogruf.

    Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between March 16th 1939 - August 20th 1943