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  1. Siegfried Jaegendorf

    Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. Afterwards, he was appointed General Manager of Siemens in Bucharest, Romania. From there, he returned to Vienna where he served as Engi...

  2. Hans Helm

    The Bavarian Hans Helm began his police career in Munich. Born in 1909 in a poor family, and has not completed the study of philosophy, and instead he got a job at the Munich police. He proved to be "an eager, disciplined and capable officer" and promoted as a forensic officer. As of 1937 he started working for the Gestapo. Among other activities within the scope of work of the Gestapo, Helm supervised and processed Ustasha intelligence exiles in Germany. At the same time he maintained official contacts with the Yugoslav police, who searched for the Ustashe as members of a terrorist organiz...

  3. Гроссман Василий Семенович

    • Grossman Vasily Semyonovich

    Василий Семенович Гроссман, настоящее имя Иосиф Соломонович Гроссман (1905 - 1964) - писатель, журналист, военный корреспондент. Родился в Бердичеве в еврейской семье. Несколько детских лет провел в Швейцарии. Получил образование в Киевском реальном училище, Киевском высшем институте народного образования, химическом отделении физико-математического факультета 1-го Московского государственного университета, однако научной карьере предпочел занятия литературой. В 1934 г. впервые был опубликован рассказ "В городе Бердичеве", посвященный Гражданской войне. В годы Великой Отечественной войны ра...

  4. Anatolijus Rozenbliumas

    1902-1973

    Anatolijus Rozenbliumas gimė 1902 m. liepos 30 d. Balstogėje, Lenkijoje. Berniukas buvo jauniausias iš penkių vaikų provizoriaus ir muzikės šeimoje. Netrukus su tėvais persikėlė į Kauną ir 1912–1914 m. bei 1918–1920 m. mokėsi Kauno žydų berniukų gimnazijoje. Per Pirmąjį pasaulinį karą šeima buvo pasitraukusi į Vitebską, kur A. Rozenbliumas baigė Vitebsko gimnaziją. 1922 m. vieną semestrą studijavo Vienos Aukštosios technikos mokyklos Statybos fakultete, 1927 m. baigė Kioteno aukštąją pramonės mokyklą. Netrukus ėmė sėkmingai dirbti inžinieriumi Berlyne, bet, šalyje sustiprėjus nacizmui, 1929...

  5. 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...

  6. Gruenbaum Yizhak

    • Gruenbaum, Isaak Icek, 1879-1970
    • Grinboym, Yitsḥaḳ, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Isaac, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Itzhak, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Yiẓḥak 1879-1970
    • ...

    1879

    1970

    Zionist.

  7. Erich Kulka

    Erich Schon, born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. A history of the arrests of Erich Kulka begins in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942, when he was transferred to Auschwitz. Kulka was given the number 73043 an...

  8. Gebirtig Mordechai

    • Gʿebiyrṭiyg, Mordekay, 1877-1942
    • Guebirtig, Mordje, 1877-1942
    • Gebirtig, Mordechaj, 1877-1942
    • געבירטיג, מרדכי, 1877־1942
    • Gebirtig, Mordechai, 1877-1942
    • ...

    1877

    June 1942

    Yiddish poet and songwriter, wrote what became the anthem of Cracow's Jewish underground resistance: Undzer shtetl brent (Our town is burning), shot and killed by German soldiers.

  9. Bielski Tuvia

    • טוביה בילסקי
    • Tuvia Bielski

    Tuvia Bielski - Jewish partisan commander. Was born in 1906, in Stankiewicze, to family of farmers. At the age of seventeen he joined the Zionist pioneering movement, and in 1928 he was mobilized into the Polish army. He married and settled in the village of Subotnik where he opened a textile store. In September 1939 the area was annexed to the Soviet Union. With the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Bielski was mobilized. When the Germans invaded the region he fled to the forest, and from there to his village of birth. After his parents and other members of their family...

  10. Bernadotte Folke

    02/01/1895

    17/09/1948

    Swedish official. Worked with the Red Cross in arranging POW exchanges. Vice president of the Swedish Red Cross. Saved thousands of POWs and concentration camp inmates. "During the last months of the war he was approached by Kaltenbrunner and Schellenberg on Himmler's behalf to feel out the Western allies on making some deal to mollify their unconditional surrender policy. Assassinated in Jerusalem by the Stern Gang.

  11. 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)

  12. Zuckerman Yitzhak

    • Zuckerman, Yitzhak, 1915-1981
    • Antek, 1915-1981
    • Cukierman, Icchak, 1915-1981
    • צוקערמאן, יצחק, 1915-1981
    • Zuckerman, Isaac, 1915-1981
    • ...

    13/12/1915

    19/06/1981

    Hero of Jewish armed resistance. One of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  13. Korczak Janusz

    • Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942
    • Goldszmit, Henryk, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorts'aḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • קורצאק, יאנוש, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorṭshaḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • ...

    22/07/1878

    1942

    Jewish educator, author, doctor, refused protection from the Judenrat, August 1942 deported from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, together with the 200 children in his care.

  14. Stefan Bałuk

    Stefan Bałuk urodził się w Warszawie w 1914 r. Podjął studia na Wydziale Finansowo- Ekonomicznym w Szkole Nauk Politycznych w Warszawie. Interesował się fotografią i fotografowaniem. Podczas kampanii wrześniowej w 1939 r. wykonał serię zdjęć, które następnie wysłał na Zachód. Losy wojenne związały go z Polskimi Siłami Zbrojnymi, polską emigracją we Francji i Anglii, oraz z działalnością konspiracyjną AK. We Francji znalazł się już w grudniu 1939 r. Później przeniósł się i działał w Wielkiej Brytanii i we Włoszech. W 1944 r. wrócił do kraju jako ?cichociemny? i pracował w Wydziale Legalizacj...

  15. Benjamin Arditti

    • בנימין ארדיטי

    Benjamin Arditti was born in Vienna in 1897. He lived in Sofia (except for two years during World War II) from 1916-1949. He was one of the outstanding activists in the Zionist movement in Bulgaria: he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Union in Bulgaria, 1919-1923; he held five terms of office as the representative to the World Zionist Congress; he served as the chairman of the Zionist Organization in Sofia; he was one of the founders of the Revisionist movement in Bulgaria and its chairman from 1925-1935. Arditti was a member of the illegal Committee for the Rescue...

  16. Kiril Patriarch of Bulgaria

    • Kiril, patriarh b''lgarski
    • Akademik Kiril, patriarh b''lgarski
    • Kiril patriarche de Sofia 1901-1971
    • Кирил patriarche de Sofia 1901-1971
    • Kiril Konstantin Markov 1901-1971
    • ...

    1901

    1971

    Patriarch of the Bulgarian orthodox church 1953-1971.

  17. Kaczerginski Shmerke

    • שמריהו קצ'רגינסקי
    • ‏קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע.
    • Kaczerginski, Szmerke
    • Ḳaṭsherginsḳi, Shmerḳe, 1908-1954
    • קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע, 1908-1954
    • ...

    1908

    1954

    Jewish writer and poet, partisan fighter, took an active part in the cultural life and the education of the youth in the Vilnius Ghetto, eminent collector of the Yiddish Shoah song, survivor of Vilnius ghetto.

  18. Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski

    (April 5, 1866–December 17, 1929) was an Croatian nobleman, industrialist, and philanthropist; he was the younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and a member of the prominent Alexander family of Zagreb. He was a well-known economics expert and published a noted article in the "Bankarstvo" magazine in 1924. Between 1905 and 1910, Alexander was the city representative in the Zagreb City Assembly. In 1909 he became the adviser of Franz Joseph I of Austria. Alexander worked in and was a member of more than 60 associations in Croatia. He was the councillor, vice president ,and honorary presid...

  19. Pius 12 Pope

    • Pius XII (papież ; 1876-1958).
    • Pacelli, Eugenio.
    • Pío XII.
    • Pij XII.
    • Pie XII (pape).
    • ...

    02/03/1876

    09/10/1958

    Head of the Roman Catholic Church (1939-58). Controversy around his and the Vatican's "neutrality" during the Holocaust

  20. Horthy Miklós

    • Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Nicolaus von, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Miklós, nagybányai, 1868-1957
    • Nagybányai Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • הורטי, ניקולאוס
    • ...

    18/06/1868

    09/02/1957

    Hungarian military officer and politician, the Regent of Hungary between March 1, 1920, and October 16, 1944. After the coup d'état of the Arrow Cross Party, he was under German house arrest. After the end of the war he settled in Portugal.