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  1. Baer Richard

    • Baer, Richard
    • Baer, Richard 1911-1963
    • Baer, Richard
    • Baer, Richard 1911-1963

    09/09/1911

    17/06/1963

    KZ-Kommandant, SS-Sturmbannführer (1944). Commander of Auschwitz since the end of 1944, after its evacuation (January 1945) appointed commander of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

  2. Baky László

    • Baky, Laszlo
    • Baky, László 1898-1946

    13/09/1898

    29/03/1946

    Hungarian gendarme officer and politician. In 1941 he was one of the founders of the Hungarian National Socialist Party. During the Sztójay Cabinet in 1944 he was political state secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, and as such he was in charge of the police and the gendarmerie. He was directly responsible for the deportation of the Hungarian Jews. He was charged with war crimes and executed in 1946.

  3. Bandera Stepan

    • Bandera, Stepan, 1908-1959
    • Bandera, Stepan, 1909-1959
    • Bandera, Stefan, 1909-1959
    • Bandera, Stepan A. 1909-1959
    • Бандера, Степан, 1909-1959.
    • ...

    01/01/1909

    15/10/1959

    Ukrainian leader, joined the Orhanizatsyia Ukrainshkykh Natsionalistiv (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN) and soon became one of the leaders of the national organisation in Western Ukraine. Bandera helped the Nazis to set up two Ukrainian battalions, the Nachtigall battalion and the Roland Battalion, with the purpose of carrying out intelligence activities. The OUN-B organized "mobile units," which moved into the Ukraine with the German forces and established the local government and the Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Ukrainian Auxiliary Police). Arrested in September 1941 and sent to...

  4. Barasz Efraim

    1892

    Chairman of the Bialystok Judenrat.

  5. Barbie Klaus

    • Barbie, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • Hansen, Klaus Altmann, 1913-1991
    • Barbie, Nikolaus, 1913-1991
    • Altmann Hansen, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • Barbon, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • ...

    25/10/1913

    25/09/1991

    Gestapo chief in Lyon, France.

  6. Bárdossy László

    • Bárdossy, László, 1890-1946
    • Bárdossy, László

    10/12/1890

    10/01/1946

    Hungarian diplomat and a politician. He was Prime Minister of Hungary between April 3, 1941, and March 7, 1942, when Hungary entered the war against Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. In autumn 1944 he became one of the leaders of the extreme right National Alliance of Legislators (Törvényhozók Nemzeti Szövetsége). In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  7. Bauminger Heshek

    01/01/1919

    31/03/1943

    Jewish resistance fighter in the Cracow ghetto.

  8. Baur André

    • Baur, André, 1904-1944
    • Baur, André, 1904-
    • Baur, André, b. 1904

    01/01/1904

    1944

    President of the Union générale des israélites de France, murdered in Auschwitz with his wife and children.

  9. Beckerle Adolf Heinz

    • Beckerle, Adolf H. 1902-1976
    • Beckerle, Adolf-Heinz 1902-1976 Vollstaendiger Name

    04/02/1902

    03/04/1976

    SA-Obergruppenführer. German consul in Bulgaria, involved in the deportation of Bulgarian Jews.

  10. Begma Vasiliy

    01/01/1906

    12/08/1965

    Communist. One of the leaders of the partisan/underground movement in Ukraine during WWII.

  11. Belev Alexander

    07/07/1900

    09/09/1944

    Commissar of Jewish affairs. Lawyer. Leader of the antisemitic group Ratnitsi Napreduka na Bulgarshtinata. Responsible for plans for the deportation of Bulgarian Jews and Jews in Bulgarian occupied Greece and Yugoslavia.

  12. 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.

  13. Beregfy Károly

    12/02/1888

    12/03/1946

    Hungarian military officer and politician. Minister of Defence in the Szálasi Cabinet in 1944-1945. In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  14. Berger Gottlob

    • Berger, Gottlob, 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob Christian 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob
    • Berger, Gotlob, 1896-1975

    16/07/1896

    05/01/1975

    SS-Obergruppenführer, General der Waffen-SS, head of the SS-Hauptamt.

  15. Berman Léon

    • Berman, Léon

    07/05/1892

    31/10/1943

    Rabbi of Lille 1936-1939 and historian.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Bernheim André

    • Bernheim, André, 1877-1963

    25/10/1877

    02/12/1963

    Doctor. Vice president of Consistoire central. Collector of Jewish art.

  19. 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).

  20. Biberstein Ernst

    • Biberstein, Ernst
    • Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski-Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986

    05/02/1899

    08/12/1986

    Commander of Einsatzkommando 6, Christian theologian by profession, SS-Sturmbannführer (1939).