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  1. Rauter Hanns Albin

    • Rauter, Hanns Albin (Johann Baptist Albin), 1895-1949
    • Rauter, Hanns, 1895-1949
    • Rauter, Hanns Albin
    • Rauter, Hans Albin 1892-1949
    • Rauter, Johann Baptist Albin 1892-1949
    • ...

    04/02/1895

    25/03/1949

    Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Niederlande (1940-). Proclaimed The Netherland "judenfrei" to Himmler 02.03.1944

  2. Friedman Philip

    • Friedman, Philip, 1901-1960
    • Friedmann, Filip
    • Friedmann, Filip.
    • Fridman, Filip.
    • Friedman, Filip.
    • ...

    1901

    1960

    Holocaust survivor, historian of the Holocaust, founded the Central Jewish Historical Commission immediately after WWII.

  3. Himmler Heinrich

    • Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945
    • Himmler, Heinrich Luitpold, 1900-1945
    • Gimmler, Genrich 1900-1945
    • Himmler, Heini, 1900-1945
    • Gimmler, Genrikh, 1900-1945
    • ...

    07/10/1900

    23/05/1945

    Various positions, most influential: Reichsführer SS (RFSS), head of the Deutsche Polizei (German police), directly subordinated to Hitler. Also: "Reichskommissar für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums" (RKF) for the Occupied Eastern Territories, since 25 Aug 1943 also Minister of the Interior, and since 1944 additionally commander of the reserve army (Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres).

  4. Franco Francisco

    • Franco Bahamonde, Francisco, 1892-1975
    • Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975
    • Boor, J., 1892-1975
    • Andrade, Jaime de, 1892-1975
    • Franco, Francisco.
    • ...

    1892

    1975

    Spanish head of state from 1939 until 1975.

  5. Kapel Shmuel René

    • Kapel, René Samuel
    • Kapel, Shmuel René
    • Ḳapel, Shemuʾel Reneh
    • Kapel, Samuel René
    • קפל, שמואל רנה
    • ...

    1907

    1994

    French Rabbi during WWII, one of the chaplains for the internment camps in South France. Holocaust survivor, France. Israeli Ambassador to Greece and Latin American countries.

  6. Zuskin Veniamin

    • Zuskin, Benjamin
    • Zusḳin, Binyomin 1899-1952
    • Zuskin, Veniamin Lʹvovič 1899-1952
    • Zusḳin, Binyamin 1899-1952
    • Zuskin, Veniamin, 1899-1952
    • ...

    1899

    1952

    Famous actor at the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre.

  7. Levi Primo

    • Леви, Примо
    • לוי, פרימו
    • Levi, Primo
    • Levi, Primo, 1919-1987
    • Malabaila, Damiano, 1919-1987
    • ...

    31/07/1919

    11/04/1987

    Writer, chemist and Holocaust-survivor. Noted for autobiographical accounts of survival in Auschwitz

  8. Schwartzbart Ignacy

    • Schwarzbart, Ignacy Isaac (1888-1961).
    • Schwarzbart, Ignacy Izaak.
    • Schwarzbart, Isaac I. 1888-1961
    • Shvartsbart, Yitsḥak 1888-1961
    • Shvartsbart, Ignatsi 1888-1961
    • ...

    13/11/1888

    26/04/1961

    Polish Zionist Leader. Key figure in the transmission of news about the Holocaust to the West.

  9. Ribbentrop Joachim von

    • Ribbentrop, Joachim ˜vonœ 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Joachim von
    • Von Ribbentrop, Joachim, 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim, 1893-1946
    • Ribbentrop, Joachim 1893-1946
    • ...

    30/04/1893

    01/10/1946

    Minister of Foreign Affairs in The Third Reich 1938-1945.

  10. Burger Anton

    • Burger, Anton, 1911-1991
    • Bauer, Wilhelm, 1911-1991
    • Bauer, Johann Anton, 1911-1991
    • Burger, Anton Ambros, 1911-1991
    • Steiner, Anton Toni
    • ...

    19/11/1911

    25/12/1991

    SS-Hauptsturmführer (1945). 1938 Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung with Eichmann, 1939 Prager Zentralstelle. Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Abt. IV B (Judenreferat). Feb 1943 in Saloniki to deport Mazedonian Jews to Auschwitz. Kommandant of Terezin. March 1944 Leiter (head) of Judenreferat at Befehlshaber der Sipo and SD Athens to deport Jews from Athens, Corfu and Rhodes. Arrested, escaped from internment.

  11. Bormann Martin

    • Bormann, Martin 1900-1959?
    • Bormann, Martin, 1900-1945?
    • Borman, Martin, 1900-1945
    • Bormann, Martin
    • ボアマン, マルティン

    17/06/1900

    02/05/1945

    Leiter (Head) of Polizeikanzlei of the NSDAP in a rank of a Reichsminister. One of the people closest to Hitler. Suicide.

  12. Brandt Karl

    • Brandt, Karl, ca. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl, 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl
    • Brandt, K. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Carl 1904-1948

    08/01/1904

    02/06/1948

    Brandt headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 onwards and was selected as Adolf Hitler's personal physician in August 1934.

  13. Icchokas Meras

    He was born on October 8, 1934 in Kelmė. His family perished in 1941 when the Nazis undertook the liquidation of Lithuania's Jews, but hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family, Meras survived the war. In 1958 he graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute with a degree in radio electronics, but began devoting most of his spare time to literature. In 1960 Meras published his first collection of stories entitled Geltonas lopas (The Yellow Patch). He based his sketches on his own childhood experiences of Holocaust terror. He has written books and was author of three screen scripts...

  14. Stuckart Wilhelm

    • Stuckart, Wilhelm, 1902-1953
    • Štukart, Vilchelm 1902-1953
    • Stuckart-Hoffmann, Wilhelm 1902-1953
    • Stuckart-Globke, Wilhelm 1902-1953
    • Hoffmann, Wilhelm Stuckart- 1902-1953
    • ...

    16/09/1902

    12/1953

    Nazi politician and jurist. State Secretary in hte Rich Ministry of Internal Affairs (1935-.) Drafted the Nuremberg Laws. Active participator at the Wannsee Conference.

  15. Brandt Rudolf

    • Brandt, Rudolf, 1909-1948
    • Brandt, Rudolf

    02/06/1909

    02/06/1948

    SS-Standartenführer (1944). Personal referent of Himmler. Head of the Ministerbüro in the Reichsinnenministerium (Reich Ministry of the Interior). Participated in the organisation of the murder of at least 86 Jews for Hirt's skeleton collection in Strassburg. Sentenced to death in Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.

  16. Ilja Rud-Gercovskis

    He was born on 13 September 1929 in Kaunas, died on 14 June 1968 in Vilnius. In the first day of the war he able to escape to the East of the Soviet Union and survived the Holocaust. Returned to Vilnius after the war and since 1949 he was the literary staff of the newspaper "Youth of Lithuania". He graduated from the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in 1952 and the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and directors in 1967. In 1955-1958 he worked as the correspondent of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in the Lithuanian SSR. Since 1958, he worked in various editions and magazines. Since 196...

  17. Michal Borwicz

    • Maksymilian Boruchowicz

    Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in...

  18. Gerlier Pierre-Marie

    • Gerlier, Pierre, 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Pierre 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Monseigneur 1880-1865
    • Gerlier, Cardinal 1880-1965
    • Gerlier.
    • ...

    1880

    1965

    French Cardinal of the Catholic church, archbishop of Lyon 1937-1965, , protested publicly against anti-Jewish measures.

  19. Robinson Jacob

    • Robinson, Jacob, 1889-1977
    • Rôbinsôn, Yaʿakôv 1889-1977
    • Robinzonas, Jokūbas 1889-1977
    • רובינזון, יעקב, 1889־
    • רבינסון, יעקב
    • ...

    1889

    1977

    Head of the Institute of Jewish Affairs in USA (1940).

  20. Daluege Kurt

    • Daluege, Kurt, 1897-1946
    • Daluege, Kurt
    • Daluge, Kurt 1897-1946

    15/09/1897

    23/10/1946

    Head of the German Ordnungspolizei (Orpo). 1942 SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst. After Heydrich´s death, June 1942 Deputy Reichsprotektor Bohemia and Moravia. Sentenced to death and executed among other things because of the massacre of Lidice.