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Displaying items 181 to 200 of 11,895
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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Person

  1. Herbert Backe

    German Nazi politician and SS Lieutenant general (Obergruppenführer), Minister of Food and Minister of Agriculture of the Nazi Germany. He developed and implemented the Hunger Plan that envisioned death by starvation of millions of Slavic and Jewish "useless eaters" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.

  2. Max Naumann

    • מקס נאומן

    Founder and leader of the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden

  3. Georg Kareski

    • גיאורג קרסקי

    Leader of the Staatszionistische Organization - a revisionistische Zionistische organization- in Germany

  4. Kurt Singer

    • קורט זינגר

    Physician, musician, founder and director of the Jewish Kulturbund in Germany

  5. Tito Josip Broz

    • Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980
    • Broz, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Broz-Tito, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Tito-Broz, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Broz, Josip.
    • ...

    07/05/1892

    04/05/1980

    Secretary-general of the Communist Party of Yugosloavia (1939-80). Yugoslav president (1953-80).

  6. Wladyslaw Gomulka

    Polish communist politician.

  7. Yehiel Grinshpan

    • יחיאל גרינשפן
    • Grynszpan Yehiel

    Commanded a Jewish partisan unit in the Parczew forest, Poland. The Grynzspan unit functioned as the protective force of the Jewish family camps that had been set up in the Parczew forest.

  8. Malka Zimetbaum

    • מלה צימטבאום

    A prisoner in Auschwitz, whose story of escape, capture, and death became a symbol of Jewish heroism.

  9. Erno Marton

    • ארנו מארטון

    Editor-in-chief of Uj Kelet

  10. James Grover McDonald

    High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany

  11. Werner Freiherr von Fritsch

    Commander of the German Army until 1938.

  12. Friedrich Paulus

    German commander, sixth commander of the Battle of Stalingrad

  13. Max Warburg

    • מקס ורבורג

    A central figure in the leadership of German Jewry during the Nazi period.

  14. Josef Meisinger

    Commander of the Sipo and SD in the Warsaw District

  15. Max Thomas

    Einsatzgruppe C commander from 1941 to 1943

  16. Sztójay Döme

    • Sztójay, Döme, 1883-1946
    • Sztojay, Dome

    05/01/1883

    22/08/1946

    Hungary's military attaché in Berlin 1925-1933. After the German occupation of Hungary, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Hungarian collaborationist government responsible for segregation, ghettoization and deportation of Hungarian Jews (Mar-Jul 1944). Found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  17. Irma Grese

    Guard of the Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps

  18. Menahem Begin

    • מנחם בגין

    Prime Minister of Israel 1977-1983

  19. Friedrich Uebelhoer

    Governor of the Kalisz and Lodz districts of the Nazi-occupied Poland. He was responsible for the establishment of the Lodz ghetto,

  20. Ludwig Hahn

    • לודוויג האן
    • Karl Ludwig Hahn

    SS-Standartenführer (1944), Regierungsdirektor. Head of Gestapo Weimar, 1939 commander of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe I in Poland, Jan. 1940 appointed Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (KdS) in Krakau, April 1941 head of Einsatzgruppe Griechenland, since August 1941 KdS Warschau. He organized the deportation of the Jews of Warszawa to Treblinka in 1942