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  1. Magyar Cionista Szövetség

    • Hungarian Zionist Alliance
    • MCSZ

    1927-

    The officially stated aim of the Hungarian Zionist Alliance was 'to promote Jewish culture through the publication of Jewish cultural, scientific, and scholarly books and periodicals’. It was not until 1927 that the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior finally approved its statutes. Forced to illegality in 1944 and 1949, the Alliance continued to operate and it is still an active organization.

  2. Samu Stern

    1874-1946

    Jewish community leader and businessman, president of the Pest Israelite Congregation (as of 1929) and of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (as of 1932). Served as president of the Central Jewish Council from 21 March 1944 to the end of October 1944, when he went into hiding. Stern survived the Holocaust, returning to Budapest, where he died two years later.

  3. Freudiger Fülöp

    • Philipp von Freudiger
    • Pinchas Freudiger

    1900–1976

    Hungarian Jewish businessman, factory owner, community leader. Born in Budapest to a well-to-do family, Freudiger succeeded his father, Abraham, as the head of the Orthodox Jewish community of Budapest in 1939. Freudiger helped many of the Jewish refugees in Hungary. After German occupation, 1944 appointed to the Judenrat in Budapest. Through the intermediacy of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel of Bratislava, Freudiger established close contact with Dieter Wisliceny of the Eichmann Sonderkommando almost immediately after the occupation in March, 1944. By bribing Wisliceny, Freudiger succeeded ...

  4. Ernő Boda

    1887-1967

    Ernő Boda, lawyer, deputy president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and a member of the Hungarian Central Jewish Council.

  5. Béla Fábián

    1889-1966

    Béla Fábián, Hungarian Jewish lawyer, publicist, liberal party MP between 1922 and 1939. He was the president of the Jewish Veterans’ Committee during WWII. He was deported, but survived the Holocaust. After the war he emigrated to the US.

  6. Zsidó Tanács

    • Central Jewish Council
    • Magyar Zsidók Központi Tanácsa

    March 1944 to January 1945

    Jewish Councils in Hungary were bodies of Jewish representatives forcibly created by the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators to carry out restrictive and genocidal measures against the Jews. Along with the Central Council of Hungarian Jews some 150 local Jewish Councils were set up in Hungary in the spring and summer of 1944. They operated for only a few weeks and ceased to exist as soon as the deportations started. There was only one exception: the Budapest (Central) Jewish Council, which existed until the liberation of the Budapest ghettos in January 1945.

  7. Ministerstvo zahraničných vecí

    • Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  8. Ministerstvo hospodárstva

    • Ministry of Economy

  9. Ministerstvo vnútra

    • Ministry of Interior

  10. Kancelária prezidenta Slovenskej republiky

    • Office of the President of the Slovak Republic

  11. Košice – mesto s municipiálnym zriadením

    • Košice - City with the municipal administration

  13. Rimokatolička škola Travnik

    • Catholic school Travnik

  14. Вилейская районная больница

    • Vileika District Hospital

  15. Министерство на правосъдието

    • Ministry of Justice

  16. Churchill Winston

    • Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, Уинстон, 1874-1965
    • Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, 1874-1965
    • Čērčils, Vinstons, 1874-1965
    • ...

    1874

    24/01/1965

    Prime minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955).

  17. Roosevelt Franklin Delano

    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
    • ルーズヴェルト, フランクリン・D
    • Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, 1882-1945
    • Luosifu, 1882-1945
    • Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1882-1945
    • ...

    30/01/1882

    02/04/1945

    32nd president of the United States (1933-1945)

  18. Stalin Iosif Vissarionovich

    18/12/1878

    05/03/1953

    Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953

  19. Народный комиссариат иностранных дел

    • People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs
    • НКИД
    • Наркоминдел
    • NKID

    1923 -1946 After 1946 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  20. Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich

    09/03/1890

    08/11/1986

    Soviet statesman and diplomat, foreign minister 1939-49 and 1953-56. Negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact 1939.