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  1. Masaryk Jan Garrigue

    • Masaryk, Jan, 1886-1948
    • Masarik, Jan, 1886-1948
    • Masaryk, Jan Garrigue, 1886-1948
    • מאסאריק, יאן, 1886־1948
    • Masaryk, Jan 1886-1948
    • ...

    14/09/1886

    10/03/1948

    Foreign minister in the Czech exile government and post-war coalition. Fought against Antisemitism during the war. Son of T.G. Masaryk

  2. Garel Georges

    • Garel, Georges, 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grigori 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grégori 1909-1979

    1909

    1979

    Ran one of the OSE networks, rescuer of Jewish children in Vichy France by passing them of as gentiles and hiding among the non-Jewish French population.

  3. World Organization of Hapoel Hatzair and Zionist Youth

    • התאחדות עולמית של "הפועל הצעיר' ו'צעירי ציון'

    ארגון עובדים ציונים סוציאליסטים במרכז ומזרח אירופה*

  4. Beauftragten des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP

    Founded in 1934

    The NSDAP Hauptamt Wissenschaft was part of Beauftragten des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP, which was founded in 1934.

  5. Benjamin Arditi

    • בנימין יוסף ארדיטי

    Public Peronality, Zionist activist in Bulgaria and Israel, Member of the Israel Parliament, historian of the Bulgarian Jews, owner of important Archive situated in Yad-Vashem Archives.

  6. Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie

    Law enforcement agency founded in Hungary in 1881 based on the French model. Its primary tasks were to prosecute crime and maintain order in villages and rural areas. The police force was in charge of these tasks in towns. In 1944, the twenty-thousand-strong gendarmerie played a key role in the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews. With few exceptions, gendarmes fulfilled their duty mercilessly, and some of them even went beyond orders, committing excesses out of antisemitic zeal and sadism. After the war, the gendarmerie was declared a criminal organization and dissolved.

  7. Frick Wilhelm

    • Frick, Wilhelm, 1877-1946
    • Fulike 1877-1946
    • Frick, Wilhelm.

    12/03/1877

    16/10/1946

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  8. Еврейский антифашистский комитет

    • Jewish Anti-Fascist Committe
    • JAC
    • ЕАК
    • Yevreysky antifashistsky komitet

    Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was organized by the Jewish Bund leaders Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, upon an initiative of Soviet authorities, in fall 1941. It was created to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the West. n January 1948, Solomon Mikhoels, the JAC chairman was killed in Minsk by Ministry of State Security agents.

  9. Gebietskommissariat Luzk

    • Луцький окружний комісаріат, м. Луцьк.
    • Луцкий окружной комиссариат, г. Луцк

    Правильно: Луцкий гебитскомиссариат. Орган управления «гебита» (gebiet), административной единицы в Рейхскомиссариате Украина в период немецкой оккупации Луцка (июнь 1941 г. февраль 1944 г.). Возглавлялся гебитскомиссаром, который в свою очередь находился в непосредственном под- чинении генерал-комиссара генерального округа Волынь–Подолье. В функции гебитскомиссариата входил контроль за деятельностью органов украинского самоуправления, решение административно-хозяйственных вопросов и т. п.

  10. Vermögensverkehrsstelle Wien

    • Property Registration Office in Vienna

    Founded in 1938-05-18

    On the basis of a decree of 1938-04-26 enforced in 1938-06, persons considered 'Jewish' under the racist Nuremberg Laws were required to register their property over RM 5,000 at the Vermögensverkehrsstelle, an authority created on 1938-05-18. The asset registrations formed the basis of later confiscations. The Vermögensverkehrsstelle had also an office in Vienna.

  11. Volksgerichtshof

    • People’s Court

    1934/1945

    The Volksgerichtshof was a treason trial court for ‘enemies of the Reich’. From 1942 until 1945-02, the court was headed by Dr. Roland Freisler. The judicial panel contained two professional judges, five individuals selected by the Nazi Party, SS, and armed forces. Its proceedings were ideological and swift. From 1934 to 1945, the People’s Court condemned 12,000 civilians to death in concentration camps.

  12. Einsatzgruppe E

    • Einsatzgruppe Kroatien
    • EG E

    1943/1945-05

    Einsatzgruppe E was not able to withstand against the strong Jugoslavic partisan organizations. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.

  13. Wasser Hersz

    1912

    1981

    Survivor, secretary of the underground Oyneg Shabbos Archive in the Warsaw ghetto.

  14. Josef Ackermann

    Josef Ackermann was a German politician and a representative of the Reichstag for the Nazi Party (NSDAP), joining the party in 1925. Born in Arenberg-Immendorf he died in Vallendar, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. After the occupation of Luxembourg by German troops in May 1940, the Chef der Zivilverwaltung (Head of Civil Administration, CdZ) Gustav Simon announced Ackermann to be part of his staff as head of Abteilung IV in the CdZ. Ackermann was Sonderbeauftragter für die Verwaltung des jüdischen und Emigrantenvermögens,

  15. Beauftragter des Reichskommissar fuer die Festigung deutschen Volkstums

    • Beauftragter des Reichskommissar die Festigung deutschen Volkstums

  16. Западный штаб партизанского движения

    • Western Staff of Partisan Movement

    1942 - 1943

    Western Staff of Partisan Movement was established on May 30, 1942 by the order of State Defense Committee (GKO) together with the Central Staff of Partisan Movement. The head of Western Staff D.M. Popov was appointed as its head.

  17. Rada Główna Opiekuńcza

    • Central Welfare Council
    • RGO

    1940/1945

    Rada Główna Opiekuńcza was a social welfare organization manned by Polish volunteers, and it was active in the Generalgouvernement from 1940/1945. The RGO was supervised by the German occupying authorities, but helped both Poles and Jews. The RGO was also in contact with the Polish underground. In 1941 one million people received aid from the RGO; in the fall of 1944, 1.2 million people were aid recipients.

  18. CDJC - Centre de Documentation Juive Comtemporaine

    • CDJC - Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

    Documentation center on the Holocaust in France

  19. Jewish Order Service

    The Jewish Order Service refers to the Jewish police force in the ghettos of eastern Europe created by local Jewish Councils on the order of the German authorities to police the ghettos and enforce German commands and decrees. When deportations began and German authorities compelled the Jewish Order Police to assist in the operations, aversion to the Jewish Order Police among ghetto residents turned to hostility and fanned among underground organizations.

  20. Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége

    • Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities
    • MAZSIHISZ

    Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége is the representative organ of the local Jewry. Its highest level is the council, with 121 members from all around the Hungarian synagogues, and the rabbis. The MAZSIHISZ’s role is not only to keep up the Judaism, but to provide social services and to conserve the Jewish heritage and improve the traditional Jewish education.