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Displaying items 221 to 240 of 11,895
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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Person

  1. Erwin Seifert

    Worked in the Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen

  2. Richard Hofmann

    Worked in the Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen

  3. Walter Albath

    Head of the Gestapo in Duesseldorf in the years 1939 - 1941 and 1943 - 1945 and Koenigsberg in the years 1941 - 1943

  4. Josef Kania

    Gestapo officer in Berlin. He took part in the confiscation of the property of deported Jews

  5. Walter Keuck

    Commander of the Schupo in the Lodz Ghetto.

  6. Gertrude Van Tijn

    • גרטרודה ואן טיין

    Head of the Comite Voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - CJV (Committee for Jewish Refugees) in Amsterdam.

  7. Leo Glaser

    • ליאו גלזר

    Head Kapo in the clothing barracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. After the war he was a manager of the insurance agency of the Federal States in Austria.

  8. Queen Wilhelmina

    • מלכת הולנד וילהלמינה

    Queen of the Netherlands

  9. Daniel Erich Eismann

    • דניאל אריך אייזמן

    Teacher at a Jewish school in Berlin

  10. Katzenelson Itzhak

    • יצחק יחיאל קצנלסון
    • Icchak Kacenelson
    • Ytzhak Yehiel Katzenelson

    1886

    1944

    Jewish teacher, poet, dramatist. Participated in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  11. Nathan David Perlman

    • נתן דוד פרלמן

  12. Hugo Rosenthal

    • יוסף ישובי-רוזנטאל
    • Yosef Yashuvi.

    German educator and Zionist activist.

  13. Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz

    • יוזף הרמן הרץ
    • Joseph Herman Hertz

    Hungarian Rabbi and Bible scholar. Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946.

  14. Moshe Eliyahu Rogosnitzky

    • משה אליהו ראגאזניצקי

    Orthodox Rabbi from Leipzig. A member of the Halachische Kommission (Religious Jewish Law Commission) of the Vereinigung traditionell gesetztreuer Rabbiner.

  15. Ytzhak Kadmi Cohen

    • יצחק קדמי כהן
    • Isaac Kadmi Cohen

    Zionist activist close to Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the revisionist movement. He died in Auschwitz in 1944.

  16. Ze'ev Jabotinsky

    • זאב ז'בוטינסקי

    Zionist leader and author

  17. Moshe Agami (Averbuch)

    • משה אגמי (אוורבוך)

    Activist of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet. Born in 1907 in Latvia, he immigrated In 1928 to Eretz Israel and joined Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. In 1938 he went on a mission to the Austrian "Hehalutz"; In 1939-1940 he continued to work on behalf of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet in Switzerland and Hungary. In 1942-1943 he served as the emissary of the Mossad L'Aliyah Bet in Iran and in 1944 he was active in Istanbul, Turkey. From there he went to Romania and worked there as a representative of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet until 1946. He also worked in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in foreign enlistment on behalf of the...

  18. Siegfried Moses

    • זיגפריד מוזס

    German Zionist leader and Israel public official. He was active in Jewish communal affairs as vice chairman of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, 1933–37, and as a member of the Berlin Community Council. He settled in Palestine in 1937 and assumed the post of managing director of "Ha'avara" (transfer of Jewish assets in Germany to Palestine). He was the chairman of the Advisory Committee of the United Restitution Organization in Israel and a member of the board of Bank Leumi. Moses wrote The Income Tax Ordinance of Palestine (1942, 1946), Jewish Post-War Claims (1944), and artic...

  19. Hanna Steiner

    • חנה שטיינר

    Emigration activist and a prominent figure in WIZO in Czechoslovakia.

  20. Ze'ev Pomerantz

    • זאב פומרנץ

    Member of Vaad ha-Hatzala (rescue committee) in Kushta (Istanbul)