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  1. Ladislav Karel Feierabend

    1891-1969

    From October 1941 to June 1945 the Czechoslovak Minister of Finance in Exile

  2. Abelis Klenickis

    Lithuanian composer, conductor and violinist was born on 14 July, 1904 in Tauragė. Studied at the Kaunas Conservatory in the classes of Juozas Gruodis and Jurgis Karnavičius. In 1953 Klenickis graduated (composition) at the Lithuanian Conservatory, he also took postgraduate cources at the Moscow Conservatory (conducting) in the class of L. Ginzburg. Klenickis served as president of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. He died on 14 May 1990 in Vilnius.

  3. Chaimas Potašinskas

    He was born on January 10, 1924 in Kaunas. In 1938 graduated from the Kaunas Conservatoire Piano course. He taught at the Vilnius and Lithuanian Conservatory. In 1945 he returned to Vilnius from Kazakhstan. From 1948 to 1983 he was the conductor in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. He prepared about 40 premieres and conducted about three thousand performances. Since 1984 he was appointed to a professor. Chaimas Potašinskas created a Jazz compositions for vocal and instrumental pieces. As a conductor and accompanist, he accompanied to the most famous Lithuanian singers, toured in...

  4. Hugo Wittrock

    1873-1858

  5. Walter Braemer

    7 January 1883 – 13 June 1955

  6. Otto-Heinrich Drechsler

    1941-1944

  7. David Boder

    In 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words. Dr. David P. Boder with Armour wire recorder, Europe, 1946 Over a period of three months, he visited refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, carrying a wire recorder and 200 spools of steel wire, upon which he was able to record over 90 hours of first-hand testimony. These recordings represent the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust, which are available through this online archive.

  8. Ephraim Oshry

    Born in 1914 in Kupiškis. He studied alongside some of the most prominent and revered Jewish leaders and rabbis of his time, most notably Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro (author of Devar Avraham). When the Nazis invaded Kaunas in 1941 during World War II, Oshry's community was forced into the Kaunas Ghetto (August 1941-October 1943) and later Kaunas Concentration Camp (October 1943-July 1944). He was an author of the book "The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry" and was one of the few European rabbis and poseks to survive the Holocaust. Died on 28 Septembet 2003 in News York.

  9. Franz Murer

    Franz Murer was born on 24 January 1912. He was an Austrian SS officer who set up, organized, and ruled Vilna Ghetto (September 1941-September 1943). Also he known as the "Butcher from Vilnius". Murer died on 5 January 1994.

  10. Wilhelm Fuchs

    1898 - 1947

  11. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader

    1900-1945

    Commander of the Security Police (Sipo) in Riga.

  12. Recha Freier

    Recha Freier was born in Norden, in the northwestern part of Germany, in 1892. On completion of her University Language studies, she worked as a teacher and folklore researcher. In 1932 she conceived of the idea of organizing the sending of Jewish youth to Eretz Israel for education in the kibbutzim. She gathered funds for this purpose and saw her idea become a reality when the first group of Jewish youth left Berlin in late 1932. The World Jewish Congress approved the idea in 1933, however initially Recha Freier had to raise the funds for the project herself. in 1935, Recha Freier proposed...

  14. L'Association des Veterans de la Resistance Francaise

    • ARJF
    • Association of French Resistance Veterans

  15. Nathan Eck

    Holocaust Research

  16. Josef Rosensaft

    Josef Rosensaft (January 15, 1911 - September 11, 1975) was a Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) through the establishment of a Central Committee of Liberated Jews that first served the interests of the refugees in Bergen-Belsen DP camp and then DP camps throughout the entire British sector.

  17. Leyb Koniuchowsky

    • Leib Koniuchowsky

    Leyb Koniuchowsky was born in Lithuania on 18 November 1910. An engineer by profession, he resided in Kaunas (Kovno). During the German occupation he lived in the Kaunas Ghetto and worked there until his escape. He found shelter in a bunker at a farmer's home where he remained until the liberation of Lithuania by the Red Army in 1944. From 1944-46, he wandered through the war battered towns of Lithuania, collecting testimonies from the few Jews that survived. The testimonies focus on the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of the local towns and villages. Koniuchowsky was meticulo...

  18. Yitzhak Weisman

    Jewish Refugees in WWII

  19. Fritz Wisten

    Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland

  20. Nachman Zonabend

    Nachman Zonabend was in a group of Jewish inmates brought to the Lodz Ghetto to clear away the rubble during the war. Zonabend stole into the building where the Ghetto Archive was kept, rescued the documentation at the risk of his life, and hid it until the end of the war.