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  1. Pivonija forest

    • Pivonijos miškas
    • Pivonijos šilas

    Mass killing place 4 km from Ukmergė town. In the period from July to September 1941 more than 7000 Jews were killed there.

  2. Yitzhak Weisman

    Jewish Refugees in WWII

  3. Fritz Wisten

    Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland

  4. Pretura Raionului Mostovoi

    • Претура Мостівського району, с. Мостове
    • Pretura of the Mostove Rayon, Mostove village

    These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos.

  5. Pretura Raionului Landau

    • Претура Ландауського району, с. Ландау
    • Pretura of the Landau Rayon, Landau Colony

    These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos.

  6. Pretura Raionului Varvarovca

    • Претура Варварівського району, с. Варварівка
    • Pretura of the Varvarivka Rayon, Varvarivka village

    These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos.

  7. Prefectura Județului Oceacov

    • Префектура Очаківського повіту, м. Очаків
    • Prefecture of the Ochakov County, Town of Ochakov

    These were county organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria ; they were headed by prefects subordinate to the civilian governor of Transnistria, and in turn held jurisdiction over district preturas , village and city primarias , and other institutions located within their respective counties, including gendarmeries and police departments.

  8. Арбузинська районна управа, с. Арбузинка

    • Arbuzynka Rayon Administration, Arbuzynka village

  9. Привільнянська районна управа, с. Привільне

    • Pryvilne Rayon Administration, Pryvilne village

  10. Миколаївська міська управа, м. Миколаїв.

    • Mykolaiv Town Administration, town of Mykolaiv

  11. Центральний державний архів громадських об'єднань України

    • Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine

  12. Nachman Zonabend

    Nachman Zonabend was in a group of Jewish inmates brought to the Lodz Ghetto to clear away the rubble during the war. Zonabend stole into the building where the Ghetto Archive was kept, rescued the documentation at the risk of his life, and hid it until the end of the war.

  13. Michal Weichert

    Michal Weichert was born in Podhajce, eastern Galicia, Poland, 1890. He attended Polish schools, earned a degree in law at the University of Vienna, and also attended the Theater Arts Academy in Berlin. Upon his return to Poland, he established the Young Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He served as a Yiddish theater critic and was a prominent figure in the cultural life of the Jews of Poland during the 1920s and 1930s. At the same time, he also served as a legal advisor for charitable institutions and Jewish cultural organizations in Poland, and eventually he became a contact person with the Joi...

  14. Hausner Gideon

    Eichmann Trial

  15. Éclaireurs Israélites de France

    • French Jewish Scouts
    • EIF

    Founded in 1923

    The Éclaireurs Israélites de France was a French Jewish scouting movement, created by Robert Gamzon in 1923, which rescued thousands of Jews in France during the Second World War. Soon after war broke out in 1939-09, the Éclaireurs Israélites de France established several children’s homes in southwest France. After France fell to the German army in mid-1940, the EIF moved south to the unoccupied zone of France while still continuing to function illegally in Paris. Its children’s homes soon began to take in the children of Jews imprisoned in Nazi camps. In 1941 the EIF was forced to join the...

  16. Levy Family from Essen

    Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practioner and researcher. They had four children, Hermann (b. 1906), Rudolf (b. 1908), Hans (b. 1911) and Eva (b. 1914). A year after the rise of nazism, Hermann Levy, a lawyer by training, went to study a new career in Paris, France, since he was banned from practicing his profession in Germany. At the end of 1935 he emigrated to Argentina, an...

  17. Erich Kulka

    Erich Schon, born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. A history of the arrests of Erich Kulka begins in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942, when he was transferred to Auschwitz. Kulka was given the number 73043 an...

  18. Polish Jewish Refugee Fund

  19. THe British Milltary court in Hamburg

    War Criminals Trials

  20. Eric von Mannstein