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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Person

  1. Lena Küchler-Silberman

    • לנה קיכלר זילברמן

  2. Jokūbas Josadė

    He was born on August 15, 1911 in Kalvarija. In 1934 he graduated from the Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. In 1935 began writing in Jewish periodical. In 1940-1941 he was working in Jewish newspaper Der Emes office. In the years of Second World War he was a soldier in Lithuanian 16th division of the Red Army. He was an author of few novel, many articles, translator into Yiddish, was author of few screen scripts. He died on November 9, 1995 in Vilnius.

  3. Oskar Schindler

  4. Kruk Herman

    • Kruk, Hermann, 1897-1944
    • Kruk, Herman, 1897-1944
    • Kruk, Herman
    • קרוק, הערמאן, 1897־1944
    • Qrwq, Hʻrmʼan.
    • ...

    1897

    1944

    Librarian. Wrote diaries from the Vilna ghetto.

  5. Ona Šimaitė

    • Anna Szymajte

    6 January 1894 – 17 January 1970

    Ona Šimaitė - a librarian at Vilnius University, used her position to aid and rescue Jews in the Vilna Ghetto. Born in Akmenė on 6 January 1894 and later educated in Moscow, Šimaitė became a librarian at Vilnius University in 1940. After the Nazi invasion and the creation of the Vilna Ghetto in 1941 she began entering the ghetto under the pretext of recovering library books from Jewish university students. Over the next three years she smuggled in food and small arms (helped by Kazys Boruta, amongst others) and other provisions and smuggled out literary and historical documents, and also se...

  6. Konrad von Preysing

    • Konrad von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos
    • Konrad Graf von Preysing
    • Johann Konrad Maria Augustin Felix, Graf von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos

  7. László Endre

    • Endre, László
    • Endre, László 1895-1946

    1895

    28/03/1946

    Hungarian extreme right-wing politician, administrative expert, one of the most influential antisemitic public figures in wartime Hungary. He served as the subprefect of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County from 1938 to 1944. In March 1944, he was appointed undersecretary of state of the Ministry of the Interior, and as such was primarily responsible for the deportation of the Hungarian Jews. He was a government commissioner for the military operational zone under the Szálasi government. He was sentenced to death and executed after the war.

  9. Petur Izraelevich Gabe

  10. Asen Grigorov Suitchmezov

  11. P. Stefanov

  12. Pohl Oswald

    • Pohl, Oswald
    • Pohl, Ludwig Oswald, 1892-1951
    • Pohl, Oswald, 1892-1951

    30/06/1892

    08/06/1951

    Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Dept (1942-) ( SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt ). Responsible for sending valuables, clothes and hair from gassed Jewish inmates to Germany

  13. Ernst Röhm

    • Ernst Roehm

    Head of the SA Staff

  14. Sigmund Rascher

  15. Frank Hans

    • Frank, Hans, 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans M., 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans
    • Frank, Hans Michael
    • Frank.
    • ...

    23/05/1900

    16/10/1946

    Reichsrechtsführer. Hitler's lawyer, leading jurist in the Third Reich. Since 25 Oct 1939 Generalgouverneur of occupied Poland.

  16. Kube Wilhelm

    • Kube, Wilhelm 1887-1943
    • Kube, W.
    • Kube, Wilhelm, 1887-
    • Kube, Wilhelm

    13/11/1887

    23/09/1943

  17. Sheptytsky Andrei

    • Šeptic'kij, Andrej (1865-1944).
    • Szeptycki, Roman Aleksander.
    • Sheptytsʹkyĭ, Andriĭ, 1865-1944
    • Sheptytsky, Andrei
    • Шептицький, Андрей, 1865-1944
    • ...

    1865

    1944

    Head of the Greek Catholic church in Southeast Poland. Leader of the Ukranian nationalist movement in Poland during WWII.

  18. Nedic Milan

    • Nedić, Milan
    • Nedić, Milan Đ., 1877-1946
    • Недић, Милан Ђ., 1877-1946
    • Nedić, Milan Đ., 1878-1946
    • Недић, Милан Ђ., 1878-1946
    • ...

    1877

    1946

    General. Prime Minister of the Nazi-backed Serbian puppet government.

  19. Frick Wilhelm

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

    12/03/1877

    16/10/1946

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  20. Himmler Heinrich

    • Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945
    • Himmler, Heinrich Luitpold, 1900-1945
    • Gimmler, Genrich 1900-1945
    • Himmler, Heini, 1900-1945
    • Gimmler, Genrikh, 1900-1945
    • ...

    07/10/1900

    23/05/1945

    Various positions, most influential: Reichsführer SS (RFSS), head of the Deutsche Polizei (German police), directly subordinated to Hitler. Also: "Reichskommissar für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums" (RKF) for the Occupied Eastern Territories, since 25 Aug 1943 also Minister of the Interior, and since 1944 additionally commander of the reserve army (Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres).