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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Person

  1. Walter Braemer

    • Braemer, Walter
    • Walter Braemer (1883 - 1955)
    • Braemer, Walter (1883 - 1955)

    07-01-1883 / 13-06-1955

    Wehrmachtbefehlshaber or supreme military commander of the Reichskommissariat Ostland between 1941 and 1944.

  2. Béla Berend

    • Berend, Béla (1911 - 1987)
    • Berend, Béla

    1911 - 1987

    Berend, Béla (1911-1987) Chief Rabbi of Szigetvár and member of the Second, Third and Fourth Jewish Council. He was suspected of being an informant for the government. In 1946 he was sentenced to ten years in prison for collaborating with the Hungarian authorities during the Holocaust. In 1947 he was acquitted on appeal. In 1948, Berend immigrated to the United States where he changed his name to Albert B. Belton.

  3. Grünvald Fülöp

    • גרינוולד פולופ
    • Grünwald Fülöp
    • Fülöp, Grünvald
    • Fülöp, Grünwald

    1887-1964

    Hungarian historian and museologist.

  4. Laura Papo - Bohoreta

    Laura Papo was born in 1891 and died in 1942.

    Laura Papo Bohoreta was born in Sarajevo on 15 March 1891, into the poor Jewish family of Juda and Esther Levi, the first of their seven children. Juda Levi was a trader, but as he did not have success in Sarajevo, he relocated to Istanbul in 1900 with his family. In Turkey, they changed the name of Luna into a more modern and international one - Laura. For eight years in Istanbul, Laura attended the International French School for Jews "Alliance Israélite Française". After eight years, Levi's family returned to Sarajevo, just as poor as before, only with more children. In order to help her...

  5. Miliband, Ralph

    • ミリバンド, ラルフ
    • Milibend, Ralph 1924-1994
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-1994
    • Milibend, Ral'f.
    • ...

    Ralph Miliband, the political scientist and socialist, was born in Belgium of Jewish parents on 7 January 1924. He and his father fled to London in 1940 as the German army was invading Belgium. Here he learned English and began to study at the London School of Economics (then exiled in Cambridge). After serving in the Royal Navy for three years he returned to his studies at LSE, graduated with first class honours, and then took a Ph.D. His first teaching post was at Roosevelt College, Chicago, but he then became a lecturer at LSE in 1949 until 1972, when he was appointed Professor of Politi...

  6. Rudolf Kasztner

    • Rezső Kasztner

    1906-1957

    Rudolf Kasztner, lawyer, journalist, Zionist activist. Kasztner’s name is associated with several rescue operations during the Holocaust. In 1942, he helped found the Relief and Rescue Committee (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) of Budapest, a clandestine group that smuggled Jews from Slovakia and Poland to Hungary. Kasztner brought copies of the so-called Auschwitz Protocols from Slovakia to Hungary at the end of April 1944. In the summer of 1944 Kasztner attempted a rescue operation that became known as the Kasztner Train. After Kasztner's immigration t...

  7. Samu Stern

    1874-1946

    Jewish community leader and businessman, president of the Pest Israelite Congregation (as of 1929) and of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites (as of 1932). Served as president of the Central Jewish Council from 21 March 1944 to the end of October 1944, when he went into hiding. Stern survived the Holocaust, returning to Budapest, where he died two years later.

  8. Freudiger Fülöp

    • Philipp von Freudiger
    • Pinchas Freudiger

    1900–1976

    Hungarian Jewish businessman, factory owner, community leader. Born in Budapest to a well-to-do family, Freudiger succeeded his father, Abraham, as the head of the Orthodox Jewish community of Budapest in 1939. Freudiger helped many of the Jewish refugees in Hungary. After German occupation, 1944 appointed to the Judenrat in Budapest. Through the intermediacy of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel of Bratislava, Freudiger established close contact with Dieter Wisliceny of the Eichmann Sonderkommando almost immediately after the occupation in March, 1944. By bribing Wisliceny, Freudiger succeeded ...

  9. Ernő Boda

    1887-1967

    Ernő Boda, lawyer, deputy president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and a member of the Hungarian Central Jewish Council.

  10. Béla Fábián

    1889-1966

    Béla Fábián, Hungarian Jewish lawyer, publicist, liberal party MP between 1922 and 1939. He was the president of the Jewish Veterans’ Committee during WWII. He was deported, but survived the Holocaust. After the war he emigrated to the US.

  11. Churchill Winston

    • Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, Уинстон, 1874-1965
    • Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, 1874-1965
    • Čērčils, Vinstons, 1874-1965
    • ...

    1874

    24/01/1965

    Prime minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955).

  12. Roosevelt Franklin Delano

    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
    • ルーズヴェルト, フランクリン・D
    • Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, 1882-1945
    • Luosifu, 1882-1945
    • Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1882-1945
    • ...

    30/01/1882

    02/04/1945

    32nd president of the United States (1933-1945)

  13. Stalin Iosif Vissarionovich

    18/12/1878

    05/03/1953

    Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953

  14. Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich

    09/03/1890

    08/11/1986

    Soviet statesman and diplomat, foreign minister 1939-49 and 1953-56. Negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact 1939.

  15. Truman Harry S.

    • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
    • Truman, Harry, 1884-1972
    • Trumėn, G. 1884-1972
    • Dulumen, 1884-1972
    • טרומאן, הארי ס., 1884-1972
    • ...

    08/05/1884

    26/12/1972

    33rd president of the United States (1945-53).

  16. Александар Матковски

    • Aleksandar Matkovski
    • Alexander Matkovski

  17. Best Werner

    • Best, Werner
    • Best, Werner, 1903-1989
    • Best, Werner, 1903-
    • Best, Karl Rudolf Werner, 1903-1989
    • Best, Werner Karl Rudolf, 1903-1989
    • ...

    10/07/1903

    23/06/1989

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1944). Deputy of Reinhard Heydrich in the SD and later in the RSHA (1934–1940). German Statthalter in occupied Denmark (1942–1945).

  20. Frants Hvass