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  11. Gustav Simon

    Nazi Gauleiter in the Moselland Gau from 1940 until 1944 and Chief of the Civil Administration in Luxembourg, which was occupied at that time by Nazi Germany.

  12. András Kun

    Hungarian priest and Minorite friar. After the German occupation of Hungary he joined the Arrow Cross Party and on 16 October 1944 he contributed to the Arrow Cross takeover by distributing weapons in Városmajor. He joined the 12th district party organization as an Arrow Cross member and a friar, and played a dominant role in the crimes, atrocities and murders against the Jews in Budapest. In 1945 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.

  13. Gábor Vajna

    Hungarian politician. From 1939 he was the member of parliament representing the Arrow Cross Party. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was appointed the Minister of Interior. In 1946 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.

  14. István Antal

    Hungarian lawyer and politician. From 1938 to 1942 he served as state secretary of the Ministry of Justice. In Kállay-government he worked as Minister without portfolio of National Defence and Propaganda. After the German occupation of Hungary Sztójay appointed him Minister of Justice and Minister of Religion and Education. He actively participated in the creating and introduction of new anti-Jewish laws. In 1946 the people’s court sentenced him to death, but he was acquitted. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was set free in 1960.

  15. Ferenc Kassai (Schallmayer)

    Hungarian politician. From 1937 he was the follower of Ferenc Szálasi and the Hungarist Movement. After 1938 he was interned several times because of his political attitude. After his release he became the propaganda chief of Arrow Cross Party. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was appointed the Minister of Propaganda. In 1946 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.

  16. Béla Jurcsek

    Hungarian politician. From 1942 to 1944 he served as state secretary of the Ministry of Welfare. After the German occupation of Hungary he was appointed Minister of Agriculture. He held this position in Lakatos-government. After the Arrow Cross Takeover he served as Minister of Welfare. In April 1945 he committed suicide in Austria.

  17. Árpád Toldi

    Hungarian gendarmerie officer. On 26 April 1944 he was appointed the prefect of the city of Székesfehérvár and Fejér County. From November 1944 he worked as the head of Department XI at the Ministry of the Interior and he was appointed the government commissioner responsible for confiscating and redistributing Jewish assets. He subsequently became commander of the so-called Gold Train. He fled to Switzerland and he was arrested in the spring of 1945, but he was not held accountable.

  18. Giorgo Perlasca

    Italian businessman. As businessman he worked in Budapest from October 1942. After the German occupation of Hungary he was arrested. He managed to get free through the Spanish ambassador’s deputy, Ángel Sanz-Briz, who gave him shelter and documents. At the end of November, when the Spanish diplomatic mission to Budapest finished its Hungarian operations, Perlasca assumed the role of Spanish deputy and placed buildings under Spanish protection. He issued thousands of protective documents, thus saving the lives of many hundreds of people. Yad Vashem awarded him the title “Righteous among the ...

  19. Samu Kahan-Frankl

    Hungarian Orthodox rabbi, head of the Central Office of the Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Denomination of Hungary. He was the member of the Central Jewish Council in 1944. In the summer of 1944 he resigned from his position and he went into hiding. After the war he headed the national Orthodox organization again. He emigrated to Israel in 1950.

  20. Béla Johan

    Hungarian professor of medicine. In 1944 he discontinued the employment of hundreds of Jewish doctors and pharmacists who were performing labour service, facilitating their deportation. After the war he was not held accountable, but in 1949 the communist authorities arrested him for a few months.