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Displaying items 161 to 180 of 11,895
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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Person

  1. August Becker

    Chemist and member of the SS. He was appointed by the RSHA to oversee the gas trucks used by the Einsatzgruppen operating in the Soviet Union between 1941-1942.

  2. Jacob Rosenheim

    • יעקב רוזנהיים

    A publisher Jewish Orthodox political and religious leader. Founder and President of the worldwide party Agudat Israel.

  3. Joachim Prinz

    • German Zionist rabbi.

    רב ציוני

  4. Max Plaut

    • מקס פלאוט

    A lawyer and leader of the Jewish Community in Hamburg

  5. Theodor Oberländer

    • Theodor Oberlaender

    A Nazi expert on "Ostforschung", research of European areas to the East of Germany. After the war served in the West German government as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War.

  6. Andor Biss

    • אנדור ביס

    Active in the Aid and Rescue Committee in Budapest

  7. Chaim Barlas

    • חיים ברלס

    Head of the Rescue Committee in Istanbul

  8. David Ben-Gurion

    • דוד בן-גוריון

    Chairman of the Jewish Agency, and the First Prime Minister of the State of Israel

  9. Adolf Abraham Berman

    • אדולף אברהם ברמן
    • Bermann, Adolf Abraham

    17/10/1906

    03/02/1978

    Psychologist, Zionist activist in the Warsaw ghetto underground and one of the leaders of ZEGOTA. Witness in Eichmann trial.

  10. Henrietta Szold

    • הנרייטה סולד

    Zionist activist in the United States and in the Mandate of Palestine

  11. Georg Landauer

    • גיאורג לנדאואר

    Zionist politician

  12. Majer Balaban

    • מאיר בלבן

    Historian of the Polish Jewry.

  13. Harro Thomsen

    Gestapo officer in Poland.

  14. Erich Roth

    He was in charge of the office groups IV B1 and IV B2 (church affairs) in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.

  15. Friedrich Brodnitz

    • פרידריך ברודניץ

    Activist and member of serveral German Jewish and Zionist organizations during the Nazi rule.

  16. Joachim Deumling

    A senior officer of the Gestapo and RSHA

  17. Leonardo Conti

    • ליאונרדו קונטי
    • Леонардо Конти

    Reich Health Leader (Reichsgesundheitsführer) in Nazi Germany. To this leadership are attributed killings of a large number of German citizens in Euthanasia programs.

  18. Ernst Damzog

    • Ernst Paul Damzog

    Officer at the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Posen

  19. Roza Robota

    • רוזה רובוטה

    פעילת מחתרת ומורדת Jewish underground activist. She was hanged together with three other women for their role in the Sonderkommando prisoner revolt of 7 October 1944.

  20. Rudolf Bilfinger

    A senior official at RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt - Reich Main Security Office), and participant in the Wannsee Conference