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  1. Samuel "Sami" David Alexander

    In 1941 during World War II, with the NDH regime in power, Alexander and his wife found refuge at the sanatorium in Klaićeva Street. In 1942, they moved to the sanatorium of Dr. Đuro Vranešić, known for saving 80 Jews, in Zelengaj Street 57. He died there relatively peacefully at the age of 80 in 1943. Alexander was buried in the Mirogoj Cemetery. In their attempt to save themselves from Ustaše and Nazi persecution, members of his family were scattered across the world. Some of them stayed temporarily in Perugia, Italy. His wife and children survived the Holocaust, but many members of the A...

  2. Klarsfeld Serge

    • Klarsfeld, Serge, 1935-....
    • Klarsfeld, Serge

    17/09/1935

    Nazi hunter.

  3. Stöckler, Lajos (1897 - 1960)

    Industrialist, member of the Third and Fourth Jewish Councils. During the Szálasi regime, he became de facto head of the Council and one of the leaders of the “large” ghetto of Budapest. After the war, he became President of the Pest Israelite Congregation and the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. In 1950, Stöckler was appointed head of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites (Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete), the unified organisation of Hungarian Jewish communities forcefully set up by the communist regime. In January 1953, he was arrested on fabricated charges of...

  4. Bühler Josef

    • Bühler, Josef, 1904-1948
    • Bühler, Josef Friedrich (1904-48).
    • Bühler, Józef.
    • Bühler, Josef.
    • Buehler, Joseph

    16/02/1904

    21/08/1948

    Deputy of the Generalgouverneur Hans Frank in Poland. Participant of the Wannsee Conference. Sentenced to death in Warsaw.

  5. Liebehenschel Arthur

    • Liebehenschel, Arthur, 1901-1948
    • Liebehenschel, Arthur
    • Liebehenschel, Arthur Wilhelm 1901-1948

    25/11/1901

    24/01/1948

    Commandant of Auschwitz extermination camp (1943/1944) and Majdanek extermination camp (May 1944--).

  6. Rosenberg Alfred

    • Rosenberg, Alfred, 1893-1946
    • Rozenberg, Alʹfred, 1893-1946
    • Rosenberg, Alfred Ernst 1893-1946 Vollstaendiger Name
    • Rosenberg, Alfred
    • ローゼンベルク, アルフレット
    • ...

    12/01/1893

    16/10/1946

    Nazi-ideologist and head of the Nazi Party's Foreign Affairs Department (1933-45)

  7. Schlegelberger Franz

    • Schlegelberger, Franz 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Quassowski, ... 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Liesecke, ... 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Hoche, ... 1876-1970
    • Schlegelberger-Harmening, ... 1876-1970
    • ...

    23/10/1876

    14/12/1970

    State secretary of the German Ministry of Justice, and acting Minister of Justice 1941/1942.

  8. Boegner Marc

    1881

    1970

    Theologist. Head of the Protestant church in France. French resistance.

  9. Paul Grüninger

    • Paul Grueninger

    Head of the District Police of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Between August and December 1938, after the Switzerland closed its borders to Jewish refugees following the Anschluss, Paul Grueninger provided forged entry visas to more than 3,000 Jewish refugees backdating their visas and falsifying other documents. Paul Grueninger was dimissed from his office and lost all his rights, including his retirement benefits. He lived in harsh conditions until his death in 1972. In 1995, the Swiss federal Government finally annulled Grüninger's conviction and cleared his name completely. Paul Grueninger ...

  10. Quisling Vidkun

    • Quisling, Vidkun, 1887-1945
    • Quisling
    • Qvisling, Vidkun A. 1887-1945
    • Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz 1887-1945
    • Quisling, Vidkun A. 1887-1945
    • ...

    18/07/1887

    24/10/1945

    Army officer and head of the collaborationist Nazi puppet-government, declared antisemite and partially responsible for the deportations of the Norwegian Jews

  11. Rachel Auerbach

    • רחל אוארבך

    Born in Poland, historian, translator and poet. During the war, she was in the Warsaw ghetto and worked with Emanuel Ringelblum in the underground archive "Oneg Shabbat" reporting on living conditions in the ghetto. After she managed to get to the Aryan side, she published a poem "Yizkor" about Jewish youth who was murdered. After the war, she worked with the Jewish Historical Committee in Poland to document the Holocaust. Her works have been published in many books and peer-reviewed articles. In 1950 she immigrated to Israel and continued her research work on the Warsaw Ghetto at Yad Vashe...

  12. Tatiana Berensztajn

    Tatiana Berensztajn (1908-1997). Pedagog, historyk, wieloletni pracownik naukowy Centralnej Żydowskiej Komisji Historycznej, a następnie Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego. W 1932 r. ukończyła studia na Wydziale Humanistycznym Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, a następnie rozpoczęła studia doktoranckie na seminarium historii Europy Wschodniej. Pracowała jako nauczycielka w Warszawie, Krzemieńcu i Ferganie. Działaczka Związku Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR, w 1946 r. powróciła do kraju i rozpoczęła pracę w CŻKH. Autorka wielu prekursorskich opracowań naukowych dotyczących eksterminacji ludności żydows...

  13. Kruk Herman

    • Kruk, Hermann, 1897-1944
    • Kruk, Herman, 1897-1944
    • Kruk, Herman
    • קרוק, הערמאן, 1897־1944
    • Qrwq, Hʻrmʼan.
    • ...

    1897

    1944

    Librarian. Wrote diaries from the Vilna ghetto.

  14. Prützmann Hans Adolf

    • Prützmann, Hans-Adolf 1901-1945
    • Prützmann, Hans Adolf 1901-1945
    • Prützmann, Hans 1901-1945
    • Pruetzmann, Hans Adolf, 1901-
    • Prützmann, Hans Adolf, 1901-
    • ...

    31/08/1901

    1945

    Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (HSSPF) in Hamburg, Köningsberg, Russia and Ukraine. Organised Werwolf.

  15. David Ben-Gurion

    • דוד בן-גוריון

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

  16. Ginz Petr

    • Ginz, Petr
    • Ginz, Pitẹr 1928-1944
    • Ginze, Petra, 1928-1944
    • Ginz, Peter, 1928-1944
    • גינז, פטר
    • ...

    1928

    1944

    Jewish teenager who spent his adolescence in the children’s home in the Terezin ghetto camp. Talented at writing and drawing, he edited the youth newspaper Vedem ‘We are the Leaders’ and wrote a diary. He was murdered in Auschwitz.

  17. Anielewicz Mordecai

    • Anielewicz, Mordecai, 1919-1943
    • Anilevits, Mordekhai, 1919-1943
    • Anilevitch, Mordechai, 1919-1943
    • Anielewicz, Mordchaj, 1919-1943
    • אניליביץ׳, מרדכי, 1919־1943
    • ...

    01/01/1919

    08/05/1943

    Principal leader of armed Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Active in a pro-Soviet group of young Zionists, Hashomer Hatzair. Set up an underground newspaper, Neged Hazerem (“Against the Stream”), and organized cultural and educational activities. Commanded the armed resistance organisation Jewish Fighting Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ŻOB).

  18. Canaris Wilhelm

    • Canaris, Wilhelm, 1887-1945
    • Kanāriss, Vilhelms, 1887-1945
    • Канарис, Вильгельм, 1887-1945
    • Canaris, Wilhelm
    • Kanaris, Vilʹgelʹm, 1887-1945
    • ...

    01/01/1887

    09/04/1945

    German admiral, and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.

  19. Speer Albert

    • Speer, Albert, 1905-1981
    • Шпеер, Альберт, 1905-1981
    • Speer, Albert
    • Špeer, Al'bert 1905-1981
    • Speer, Albert (German architect, 1905-1981)
    • ...

    19/03/1905

    01/09/1981

    Nazi Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production (1942-45).

  20. 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).