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  1. Julius Brodnitz

    • יוליוס ברודניץ

    Chairman of "Centralverein duetscher Staattsbuerger juedischen Glaubens" (Central Committee of Jewish-born Citizens)

  2. Erich Roth

    He was in charge of the office groups IV B1 and IV B2 (church affairs) in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.

  3. Ernst Salomon Herzfeld

    • ארנסט סלומון הרצפלד

    Advocate & public activist

  4. Alfred Hirschberg

    • אלפרד הירשברג

    Public activist & editor of a Jewish newspaper

  5. Ignacy Schiper

    • יצחק שיפר

    Jewish historian and public figure

  6. Wilfrid B. Israel

    • וילפריד ב. ישראל

    Merchant & philanthropist

  7. Majer Balaban

    • מאיר בלבן

    Historian of the Polish Jewry.

  8. Esra Munk

    • עזרא מונק

    Rabbi, leader of withdrawing Orthodoxy

  9. Hans Reichmann

    • הנס רייכמן

    One of the leaders of "Central Association of Jewish-born German Civilians"

  10. Voroshilov

    Statesman in Stalin's government

  11. Ludwig Tietz

    • לודביג טיץ

    Physician & public activist

  12. Max Moritz Warburg

    • מקס מוריץ ורבורג

    Jewish banker and public activist in Germany

  13. Sigmund Wassermann

    • זיגמונד וסרמן

    Banker & public activist

  14. Karel Fleischmann

    • קרל פליישמן

    Physician, newspaper editor, poet & painter

  15. Maximilian, Prof. Dr. Phil. Adler

    • מקסימיליאן אדלר

    Linguist, historian & teacher

  16. Комитет государственной безопасности

    • Committee for State Security
    • KGB
    • Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti
    • КГБ

    The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. Formed in 1954 as a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, and MGB, the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police. Similar agencies were instated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russia and consisted of many ministries, state committees, and state commissions.

  17. Elsa Bernstein

    • אלזה ברנשטיין

    Novelist & playwright

  18. Объединённое государственное политическое управление при СНК СССР

    • The Joint State Political Directorate
    • The All-Union State Political Administration
    • Obyedinyonnoye gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravleniye pri SNK SSSR
    • ОГПУ
    • OGPU

    The OGPU was the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1934. Its official name was "Joint State Political Directorate under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR"

  19. Rudolf Saudek

    • רודולף סאודק

    A Jewish Czech sculptor and painter

  20. Suomen Punaisen Ristin Sotavankitoimisto

    • Finnish Red Cross POW Office

    The Finnish Red Cross established its POW Office in 1939 to collect data concerning the POWs during the Winter War, and later during the Continuation War. The office was established on the ground of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of POWs. In the years 1939-1944 Finland held in custody around 70,000 Soviet POWs. Approximately 470 of them were Jewish. During the continuation war (1941-1944) the rate of mortality in the camps was very high, up to 30%. Around 2500 POWs were extradited to the Germans. Within the extradited there were 55 Jews. Two of them were returned to the Finnish aut...