Authorities

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  1. Nitrianska župa

  2. Okresný úrad v Nitre

  3. Šarišsko-zemplínska župa

  4. Okresný úrad v Prešove

  5. Okresný úrad v Novej Bani

  6. Okresný úrad v Humennom

  7. Okresný úrad v Levoči

  8. Miliband, Ralph

    • ミリバンド, ラルフ
    • Milibend, Ralph 1924-1994
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-1994
    • Milibend, Ral'f.
    • ...

    Ralph Miliband, the political scientist and socialist, was born in Belgium of Jewish parents on 7 January 1924. He and his father fled to London in 1940 as the German army was invading Belgium. Here he learned English and began to study at the London School of Economics (then exiled in Cambridge). After serving in the Royal Navy for three years he returned to his studies at LSE, graduated with first class honours, and then took a Ph.D. His first teaching post was at Roosevelt College, Chicago, but he then became a lecturer at LSE in 1949 until 1972, when he was appointed Professor of Politi...

  9. Rudolf Kasztner

    • Rezső Kasztner

    1906-1957

    Rudolf Kasztner, lawyer, journalist, Zionist activist. Kasztner’s name is associated with several rescue operations during the Holocaust. In 1942, he helped found the Relief and Rescue Committee (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) of Budapest, a clandestine group that smuggled Jews from Slovakia and Poland to Hungary. Kasztner brought copies of the so-called Auschwitz Protocols from Slovakia to Hungary at the end of April 1944. In the summer of 1944 Kasztner attempted a rescue operation that became known as the Kasztner Train. After Kasztner's immigration t...

  10. Országos Magyar Zsidó Segítő Akció

    • National Hungarian Jewish Aid Organization
    • OMZSA

    1939-1945

    The Országos Magyar Zsidó Segítő Akció (OMZSA) was established in Budapest in 1939 with the mission of raising funds for supporting those who lost their jobs or existence due to the anti-Jewish laws and regulations. The OMZSA was a Neolog-Orthodox-Zionist coalition that aimed to consolidate the Hungarian-Jewish self-aid actions. Jewish public activists saw the establishment of the OMZSA as an opportunity for both self-renewal and a growing inner solidarity among Hungarian Jews.