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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Person

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. Schwartzbart Ignacy

    • Schwarzbart, Ignacy Isaac (1888-1961).
    • Schwarzbart, Ignacy Izaak.
    • Schwarzbart, Isaac I. 1888-1961
    • Shvartsbart, Yitsḥak 1888-1961
    • Shvartsbart, Ignatsi 1888-1961
    • ...

    13/11/1888

    26/04/1961

    Polish Zionist Leader. Key figure in the transmission of news about the Holocaust to the West.

  4. Ribbentrop Joachim von

    • Ribbentrop, Joachim ˜vonœ 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Joachim von
    • Von Ribbentrop, Joachim, 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim, 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Joachim 1893-1946
    • ...

    30/04/1893

    01/10/1946

    Minister of Foreign Affairs in The Third Reich 1938-1945.

  5. Burger Anton

    • Burger, Anton, 1911-1991
    • Bauer, Wilhelm, 1911-1991
    • Bauer, Johann Anton, 1911-1991
    • Burger, Anton Ambros, 1911-1991
    • Steiner, Anton Toni
    • ...

    19/11/1911

    25/12/1991

    SS-Hauptsturmführer (1945). 1938 Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung with Eichmann, 1939 Prager Zentralstelle. Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Abt. IV B (Judenreferat). Feb 1943 in Saloniki to deport Mazedonian Jews to Auschwitz. Kommandant of Terezin. March 1944 Leiter (head) of Judenreferat at Befehlshaber der Sipo and SD Athens to deport Jews from Athens, Corfu and Rhodes. Arrested, escaped from internment.

  6. Bormann Martin

    • Bormann, Martin 1900-1959?
    • Bormann, Martin, 1900-1945?
    • Borman, Martin, 1900-1945
    • Bormann, Martin
    • ボアマン, マルティン

    17/06/1900

    02/05/1945

    Leiter (Head) of Polizeikanzlei of the NSDAP in a rank of a Reichsminister. One of the people closest to Hitler. Suicide.

  7. 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.

  8. Icchokas Meras

    He was born on October 8, 1934 in Kelmė. His family perished in 1941 when the Nazis undertook the liquidation of Lithuania's Jews, but hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family, Meras survived the war. In 1958 he graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute with a degree in radio electronics, but began devoting most of his spare time to literature. In 1960 Meras published his first collection of stories entitled Geltonas lopas (The Yellow Patch). He based his sketches on his own childhood experiences of Holocaust terror. He has written books and was author of three screen scripts...

  9. Stuckart Wilhelm

    • Stuckart, Wilhelm, 1902-1953
    • Štukart, Vilchelm 1902-1953
    • Stuckart-Hoffmann, Wilhelm 1902-1953
    • Stuckart-Globke, Wilhelm 1902-1953
    • Hoffmann, Wilhelm Stuckart- 1902-1953
    • ...

    16/09/1902

    12/1953

    Nazi politician and jurist. State Secretary in hte Rich Ministry of Internal Affairs (1935-.) Drafted the Nuremberg Laws. Active participator at the Wannsee Conference.

  10. Brandt Rudolf

    • Brandt, Rudolf, 1909-1948
    • Brandt, Rudolf

    02/06/1909

    02/06/1948

    SS-Standartenführer (1944). Personal referent of Himmler. Head of the Ministerbüro in the Reichsinnenministerium (Reich Ministry of the Interior). Participated in the organisation of the murder of at least 86 Jews for Hirt's skeleton collection in Strassburg. Sentenced to death in Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.

  11. Ilja Rud-Gercovskis

    He was born on 13 September 1929 in Kaunas, died on 14 June 1968 in Vilnius. In the first day of the war he able to escape to the East of the Soviet Union and survived the Holocaust. Returned to Vilnius after the war and since 1949 he was the literary staff of the newspaper "Youth of Lithuania". He graduated from the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in 1952 and the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and directors in 1967. In 1955-1958 he worked as the correspondent of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in the Lithuanian SSR. Since 1958, he worked in various editions and magazines. Since 196...

  12. Michal Borwicz

    • Maksymilian Boruchowicz

    Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in...

  13. Gerlier Pierre-Marie

    • Gerlier, Pierre, 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Pierre 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Monseigneur 1880-1865
    • Gerlier, Cardinal 1880-1965
    • Gerlier.
    • ...

    1880

    1965

    French Cardinal of the Catholic church, archbishop of Lyon 1937-1965, , protested publicly against anti-Jewish measures.

  14. Robinson Jacob

    • Robinson, Jacob, 1889-1977
    • Rôbinsôn, Yaʿakôv 1889-1977
    • Robinzonas, Jokūbas 1889-1977
    • רובינזון, יעקב, 1889־
    • רבינסון, יעקב
    • ...

    1889

    1977

    Head of the Institute of Jewish Affairs in USA (1940).

  15. Daluege Kurt

    • Daluege, Kurt, 1897-1946
    • Daluege, Kurt
    • Daluge, Kurt 1897-1946

    15/09/1897

    23/10/1946

    Head of the German Ordnungspolizei (Orpo). 1942 SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst. After Heydrich´s death, June 1942 Deputy Reichsprotektor Bohemia and Moravia. Sentenced to death and executed among other things because of the massacre of Lidice.

  16. Borisas Gurinovičius

    • Borisas Pavlovičius Gurinovičius

    Borisas Gurinovičius was born on 24 February 1907 in Kashinas town (Kalininas region, Russia). Since 1922 the family settled in Vilnius. In Vilnius Gurinovičius finished secondary school and started studies at the Steponas Batoras University in Vilnius. In 1936 he graduated from the university and work as a specialist of agriculture. Was able to survive the Holocaust in the East of Soviet Union. After the Second World war returned to Vilnius. Beside his primary work he was know as a collector. His the most famous collections are: "Kosmosas/Space", "Pasaulio sostinės/World Capitals", "Vilnia...

  17. Gutmannová, Františka (1899 - 1944)

    Born 1899. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Baroness Františka Gutmannová (neé Mayová) was the wife of the industrial magnate Vilém Gutmann, co-owner of Gebrüder Gutmann. Amongst other things, this company owned coal mines in Upper Silesia and, with the Rothschilds, founded what is now the Vítkovice Ironworks. Vilém Gutmann emigrated before the outbreak of war. Františka remained alone in Prague with her four children Eliška, Zuzana, Gertruda and František. During WWII she worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, in the stock of the Treuhandstelle. In the summer of 1944, together with her children...

  18. Krausz Miklós

    01/01/1908

    1985

    Hungarian Jewish Zionist activist. In 1932 he was appointed as the general secretary of the "Mizrahi" and “Hapoel Hamizrahi” organisations in Hungary. In 1934 he was the secretary of the Eretz-Israel Office in Budapest and from 1938 to 1946 its manager. In April 1944, a few weeks after the German invasion of Hungary, all the 7,800 certificates that were not used by Jews, who were deported or exterminated by the Nazis all over Europe, arrived. But after Romania switched alliance to the Russians (23.8.1944) the way to Palestine was blocked. The Swiss consul, Carl Lutz obtained from the Hungar...

  19. Koch Karl Otto

    • Koch, Karl-Otto
    • Koch, Karl 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto, 1897-1945

    02/08/1897

    05/04/1945

    KZ-Kommandant, SS-Standartenführer. Since 1935 head of the Wachtrupp of Esterwegen concentration camp, commander (Kommandant) of Columbiahaus in Berlin, since April 1936 commander of Esterwegen concentration camp. Since Aug 1, 1937 commander of Buchenwald, January to August 1942 commander of Lublin-Majdanek death camp.

  20. Abraham Asscher

    19 September 1880 – 2 May 1950

    a Dutch Jewish businessman and politician from Amsterdam. In the 1930s, he became a leader and spokesmen of the Dutch Jewish community. He served as the President of the nation’s central Jewish organization, the Nederlandsch-Israëlitsch Kerkgenootschap (Dutch Jewish Congregation). When Jewish refugees began to flee in numbers to the Netherlands from the Nazi regime in Germany, it was Asscher, along with Professor David Cohen, who established (with government support) two organizations to deal with the situation. The Comité voor Bijzondere Joodse Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Intere...