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  1. Kreishauptmannschaft Lemberg-Land

    • Львівське окружне староство губернаторства Дистрикту Галіції, м. Львів

  2. Kreishauptmannschaft Drohobycz

    • Дрогобицьке окружне староство, м. Дрогобич

  3. Журавненська міська управа м. Журавно

    • Zhuravno town administration, town of Zhuravno

  4. Сокальська міська управа, м. Сокаль

    • Sokal Town Administration, town of Sokal

  5. 16-я 'Литовская' стрелковая дивизия

    • 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
    • Lietuviškoji 16-oji Raudonosios Armijos divizija

    The 16th Rifle Division was a formation in the Red Army created during the Second World War. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Novgorod in October 1939. In the end of 1941 reformed and given the title 'Lithuanian', the division participated in several battles against Nazi Germany, including Kursk, Belarus, and the Baltic. It was disbanded at the end of the war, although it was briefly revived in 1955 before being disbanded once more. When the 16th Division was reformed after its destruction, it w...

  6. Министерство обороны CCCP

    • Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union

    1917-1922, 1922-1991.

    The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the defence minister who was responsible for defence of the communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991. List of Defence Ministries: 1. People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934) 2. People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946) 3. People's Commissars for the Navy (1937–1946) 4. People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946) 5. Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950) 6. Minister of War (1950–1953) 7. Ministers of the Navy (1950–1953) 8. Ministers of De...

  7. The Command of the Lithuanian Partisan Movement

    • Lietuvos partizaninio judėjimo štabas
    • Shtab Litovskogo Partizanskogo dvizhenija

    "In 1941, the Soviet partisan movement in Lithuania began with the actions of a small number of Red Army soldiers left behind enemy lines, much like the beginning of partisan movements in Ukraine and Belarus. The movement grew throughout 1942, and in the summer of that year the Lithuanian Soviet partisan movement began receiving material aid as well as specialists and instructors in guerrilla warfare from Soviet-held territory. On 26 November 1942, the Command of the Lithuanian Partisan Movement (Lietuvos partizaninio judėjimo štabas) was created in Moscow, headed by the First Secretary of ...

  8. David Boder

    In 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words. Dr. David P. Boder with Armour wire recorder, Europe, 1946 Over a period of three months, he visited refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, carrying a wire recorder and 200 spools of steel wire, upon which he was able to record over 90 hours of first-hand testimony. These recordings represent the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust, which are available through this online archive.

  9. Ephraim Oshry

    Born in 1914 in Kupiškis. He studied alongside some of the most prominent and revered Jewish leaders and rabbis of his time, most notably Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro (author of Devar Avraham). When the Nazis invaded Kaunas in 1941 during World War II, Oshry's community was forced into the Kaunas Ghetto (August 1941-October 1943) and later Kaunas Concentration Camp (October 1943-July 1944). He was an author of the book "The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry" and was one of the few European rabbis and poseks to survive the Holocaust. Died on 28 Septembet 2003 in News York.

  10. Franz Murer

    Franz Murer was born on 24 January 1912. He was an Austrian SS officer who set up, organized, and ruled Vilna Ghetto (September 1941-September 1943). Also he known as the "Butcher from Vilnius". Murer died on 5 January 1994.

  11. Wilhelm Fuchs

    1898 - 1947

  12. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader

    1900-1945

    Commander of the Security Police (Sipo) in Riga.

  13. Kriegverbrecher Referat, Juristische Abteilung beim Central Kommittee der befreiten Juden, Muenchen

    • War Criminals Department, Legal Division of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews) - Munich

    The War Criminals Department was established in the American Occupied Zone a short time after the end of World War II. From 1946-1951 it was active as the legal division of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, in cooperation with the Central Historical Committee in Munich and other survivor organizations. The role of the division was to locate war criminals and collaborators, to gather documentary material, to collect testimony from survivors and to bring the criminals to trial. In 1960 all the documentation was transferred to the legal department of the Joint Distribution Com...

  14. Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund

    • Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities
    • SIG

    1904-11-27/present

    On 1904-11-27, 27 representatives of the 13 Jewish communities from the whole of Switzerland met in Baden for a founding assembly. Articles of association were adopted and a five-member executive appointed, thus constituting the launch of the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund. The objective of the newly founded association was 'to safeguard and represent the general interests of Judaism in Switzerland’. Early 1930s SIG redoubled its offensive against anti-Semitism by inaugurating its own press office late in 1936 - the Jüdische Nachrichten. During the Second World War the SIG and ...

  15. Recha Freier

    Recha Freier was born in Norden, in the northwestern part of Germany, in 1892. On completion of her University Language studies, she worked as a teacher and folklore researcher. In 1932 she conceived of the idea of organizing the sending of Jewish youth to Eretz Israel for education in the kibbutzim. She gathered funds for this purpose and saw her idea become a reality when the first group of Jewish youth left Berlin in late 1932. The World Jewish Congress approved the idea in 1933, however initially Recha Freier had to raise the funds for the project herself. in 1935, Recha Freier proposed...

  17. Forverts

    • The Jewish Daily Forward

    1897-04-22/present

    The Jewish Daily Forward is a legendary name in American journalism and a revered institution in American Jewish life. Launched as a Yiddish-language daily newspaper on 1897-04-22, the Forward entered the din of New York's immigrant press as a defender of trade unionism and moderate, democratic socialism. The Forward quickly rose above the crowd, however; under the leadership of its founding editor, the crustily independent Abraham Cahan, the Forward came to be known as the voice of the Jewish immigrant and the conscience of the ghetto. It fought for social justice, helped generations of im...

  18. L'Association des Veterans de la Resistance Francaise

    • ARJF
    • Association of French Resistance Veterans

  19. Nathan Eck

    Holocaust Research

  20. Council for German Jewry

    • CFGJ

    Founded in 1936

    The Council for German Jewry was a British Jewish organization established in 1936 to help German Jews leave Germany. British Jewish leaders instituted the Council for German Jewry in response to the racial Nuremberg Laws of 1935; they designed an emigration plan whereby 100,000 German Jews aged 17-35 could leave Germany in an organized manner. Half were to move to Palestine, and half to other countries. The CFGJ also hoped that another 100,000 German Jews would emigrate without their help. The American Joint Distribution Committee formally joined the council in 1936-08. The CFGJ was never ...