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  1. Muneles, Otto (1894 - 1967)

    Born 1894 in Prague. Died 1967 in Prague. Important Hebrew scholar and historian. At the beginning of WWI travelled together with his friend Jiří Mordechai Langer (author of Nine Gates) to Galicia, stayed in a Hasidic community in Belz and spent several years in Rzeczic, where he studied halakha and hasidic liturature. Received rabbinic ordination. In 1922 returned to Prague, was active in Chevra kadisha. During WWII worked for the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Deportated to Terezín in July 1943, worked in the library, cataloged Hebrew books that had been confiscated from libraries by th...

  2. 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...

  3. Schulz Bruno

    • Schulz, Bruno (Polish author and illustrator, 1892-1942)
    • Bruno Schulz
    • Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942
    • シュルツ, ブルーノ
    • シュルツ
    • ...

    12/07/1892

    19/11/1942

    Polish-Jewish writer, artist and litarary critic. Shot in the ghetto.

  4. Glazman Josef

    1913

    07/10/1943

    "A leader of the underground and partisans in Lithuania, and of the Betar movement there. From November 1941 he served as deputy chief of the Jewish ghetto police in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto. Glazman was one of the founders of the FPO (United Partisans Organization) in the ghetto, serving as its deputy commander and also worked in the ghetto's educational and cultural programs, while continuing his underground activities. These brought him into conflict with ghetto police chief Jacob Gens, who was head of the ghetto from July 1942, and Gens eventually dismissed Glazman from his post. On J...

  5. Harster Wilhelm

    • Harster, Wilhelm
    • Harster, Wilhelm, 1904-1992
    • Harster, Wilhelm 1904-
    • Harster, Wilhelm, 1904-1991

    21/07/1904

    SS-Gruppenführer. From 15 July 1940 to 29 Aug 1943 Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS), Netherlands, then BdS, Italy.

  6. Frank Hans

    • Frank, Hans, 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans M., 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans
    • Frank, Hans Michael
    • Frank.
    • ...

    23/05/1900

    16/10/1946

    Reichsrechtsführer. Hitler's lawyer, leading jurist in the Third Reich. Since 25 Oct 1939 Generalgouverneur of occupied Poland.

  7. Rudolf Vrba

    • רודולף ורבה

    professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. Originally from Slovakia, he is known for having escaped, at the age of 19, from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War, and for having provided some of the earliest and most detailed information about the mass murder that was taking place there

  8. Eicke Theodor

    17/10/1892

    26/02/1943

    SS-Obergruppenführer. 1933 appointed commander of Dachau concentration camp; 1934 "Inspekteur der Konzentrationslager". Filled a major role in the construction of the Nazi concentration camp system. Since 1936 organised the SS Totenkopfverbände composed of camp guards. 1939 organiser and commander of the SS Totenkopf Division.

  9. 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...

  10. Corrie ten Boom

    • Cornelia ten Boom

    Christian activist and Dutch resistance member who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.

  11. Wisliceny Dieter

    • Wisliceny, Dieter, 1911-
    • Wisliceny, Dieter, 1911-1948
    • Wisliceny, Dieter

    13/01/1911

    27/02/1948

    SS Major, Eichmann's deputy and "deportation expert". Responsible for mass deportation and murder of Jews from Slovakia, Greece and Hungary.

  12. Koch Erich

    • Koch, Erich, 1896-1986
    • Koch, Erich
    • Koch, Erich. (1896-1959).

    19/06/1896

    12/11/1986

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in East-Prussia, 1941 appointed Reichskommissar of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine and also 1941 bis 1945 Chef der Zivilverwaltung of the Bezirk Bialystok in occupied Poland.

  13. Katzmann Friedrich Fritz

    06/05/1906

    19/09/1957

    SS-Gruppenführer. SSPF (SS- und Polizeiführer) of Distrikt Radom (November 1939 - Juli 1941); SS- und Polizeiführer von Galizien (1941 - April 1943); Head of SS-Oberabschnitt Weichsel/Danzig-Westpreußen (April 1943 - 8 May 1945).

  14. Benes Edvard

    • Beneš, Edvard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Eduard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edward, 1884-1948
    • Bénès, Edouard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edvard, Pres. Czechoslovak Republic, 1884-1948
    • ...

    28/05/1884

    03/09/1948

    Czech and Czechoslovak politician, diplomat, president in 1935-48, president of the exile government in London during the war.

  15. Josifas Šapiro

    • Josif Shapiro
    • Yosif Shapiro

    The collector and ex libris aficionado was born in 1921 in Kaunas. He was an engineer and worked for many years at Lithuanian graphic reporduction and printing enterprises. Although Shapiro was not a professional artist, he created about 175 ex libris bookplates dedicated to friends and family and regularly participated at many ex libris congresses and conferences. Shapiro was best known as a collector of diverse things. He has been written about in the press in Lithuania, USA, Russia and Finland. He exhibited his eclectic collections in cities across Lithuania, Russia and other countries. ...

  16. Gitler Barski Jozef

    • Barski, Józef (1898- ).
    • Gitler-Barski, Józef (1898-1986).
    • Barski, Józef Gitler.
    • Barski, Józef (1898-1986).

    1882

    1993

    Lawyer, member of the KPP, head of the JDC in Warsaw, Centos activist, one of the founders of the PPR, taken via the Polski-Hotel to Bergen-Belsen. Survived.

  17. Hull Cordell

    • Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
    • ハル, コーデル
    • Hull, Cordell

    02/10/1871

    1955

    United States secretary of state from 1933 to 1944. Had limited information about the persecution of the Jews in Germany but declined to intercede in what he regarded as Germany's internal affair. Hull opposed any relaxation of American immigration regulations during the war. Laid the groundwork for a postwar United nations.

  18. Sprenger Jakob

    • Sprenger, Jakob
    • Sprenger, Jakob, 1884-1945
    • Sprenger, Gauleiter (Jakob), 1884-1945
    • Sprenger 1884-1945 Gauleiter

    24/07/1884

    08/05/1945

    Nazi politician. SA-Obergruppenführer. Reich Defence Commissar of Defence District XII (1939). High President of the new Prussian province of Nassau (1944).

  19. Günther Rolf

    • Gunther, Rolf
    • Günther, Rolf, 1913-

    08/01/1913

    1945

    Since 1941 deputy of Eichmann in Referat IV B 4 (Auswanderung und Judenangelegenheiten) of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). Alledgedly committed suicide in summer 1945

  20. Hunsche Otto

    • Hunsche, Otto 1912-

    15/09/1911

    Regierungsrat in RSHA. A member of Eichmann's referat IV B 4b in the RSHA. In 1944 participated in Sonderkommando Eichmann which was responsible for the concentration and deportation of the Jews of Hungary.