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  1. Hermann Krumey

    German SS officer. He had contact with Adolf Eichmann and his Jewish affairs department of the Reich Security Main Office during the resettlement of the Warthe District. After the German occupation of Hungary he arrived in Budapest as a member of Eichmann’s Sondereinsatzkommando. He worked with Eichmann on the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. He was arrested in Italy in 1945, but thanks for statement of Rezső Kasztner he was not prosecuted. Later he was sentenced to imprisonment.

  2. Jenő Péterffy

    Hungarian gendarmerie commander. He served as gendarme cadet corps commander in Nagyvárad from 1 May 1943 and in Galánta from 20 August 1944. As gendarmerie commander he played an important role in the ghettoization and deportation of Hungarian Jews. He ordered his men to treat the Jews in brutal manner. After the Arrow Cross takeover he appointed to deputy director of Department XX of the Ministry of the Interior. After the war he was arrested and in December 1945 he was slain in the prison.

  3. Kurt Becher

    German SS officer and businessman. From March 1944 to 1945 he was a special envoy to Heinrich Himmler in Hungary. He negotiated with leading Jewish businessmen, including the Weiss Manfréd Works. He blackmailed them into handing over this large complex to the SS. After the war he was arrested, but he was not held accountable.

  4. dr. Josef Mengele

    German SS officer and physician. From 1943 he was one of the lead physicians at Auschwitz–Birkenau. In the summer of 1944 he supervised the selection process on the Birkenau ramp and he sent tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to their deaths. In Auschwitz he conducted pseudomedical experiments. After the war he fled to South America in 1949, where he is believed to have died in 1979.

  5. Miksa Domonkos

    Hungarian Jewish engineer. After the German occupation of Hungary he was the head of the Central Jewish Council’s Technical Department. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was one of the large ghetto’s leaders, struggling with great resolve to protect Budapest’s Jews. After the war he became chief secretary of the Pest Israelite Congregation.

  6. Margit Slachta

    Hungarian Catholic nun, one of the leaders of the Christian Women’s Camp and the Society of Sisters of Social Service. As a member of parliament she protested against the deportation of stateless Jews in 1941. In 1944 she accomplished significant Jewish rescue activities along with the other Social Sisters. Yad Vashem awarded her the title “Righteous among the Nations” in 1977.

  7. Sándor Török

    Hungarian writer and Jewish Council member. After the German occupation of Hungary he was appointed the Christian member of the Jewish Council. In July 1944 he became one of the leaders of the Interim Executive Board of the Association of Christian Jews in Hungary. After the Arrow Cross takeover he went into hiding. He survived the world war.

  8. Gábor Faragho

    Hungarian army general. After the German occupation of Hungary as gendarmerie superintendent he played a key role in the deportation of Hungarian Jews. In September 1944 he became the head of the cease-fire delegation in Moscow and he signed the preliminary cease-fire conditions on October 11. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was stripped of his rank. After the war he served as minister of public welfare in the post-war democratic government of 1944–1945.

  9. Lajos Csatay

    Hungarian army officer. He was the minister of defence in Kállay- and Sztójay-government from June 1943 to 15 October 1944. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was arrested. He and his wife committed suicide in prison.

  10. Andor Jaross

    Hungarian politician. After the German occupation of Hungary he was appointed the minister of the interior. He was one of the key figures responsible for the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews. During Szálasi’s rule he was copresident of the parliamentary group supporting the Arrow Cross regime. The people’s court sentenced him to death and in 1946 he was executed.

  11. Lajos Stöckler

    Hungarian industrialist. From July 1944 he became the member of the Jewish Council in Budapest. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was the head of the Jewish Council and he played dominant role in organizing food supplies and providing protection for ghetto residents. After the war he became president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and in 1950 he was appointed head of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites. In 1956 he emigrated to Australia.

  12. Jusztinián Serédi

    Archbishop of Esztergom and head of the Hungarian Catholic Church from 1927 until his death. As a member of Upper House he supported and voted in favour of the First and Second “Jewish Laws” in 1938 and 1939, but he rejected the Third “Jewish Law” in 1941. In 1944 he intervened with representatives of the government, primarily on behalf of Jews converted to Christianity.

  13. László Ravasz

    Hungarian Calvinist bishop. As a member of Upper House he supported and voted in favour of the First and Second “Jewish Laws” in 1938 and 1939, but he rejected the Third “Jewish Law” in 1941. In 1944 he faced with the reality of the Holocaust and he tried to do against physical destruction of Hungarian Jews. He took part in church-operated rescue efforts, primarily assisting Jews converted to Christianity.

  14. Zoltán Bosnyák

    Hungarian journalist and race-protectionist ideologist. From 1943 he headed the Hungarian Institute for Research of the Jewish Question. In 1944 he was the editor in chief of Harc (Struggle). The people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed in 1952.

  15. Vilmos Nagybaczoni Nagy

    Hungarian army general. In September 1942 he was appointed the minister of defence in Kállay-government. In this position he tried to abolish the brutal treatment of labour servicemen and made no attempt to satisfy the Germans’ military demands. In June 1943 he was dismissed by Prime Minister Miklós Kállay. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was arrested. In 1965 Yad Vashem awarded him the title “Righteous among the Nations.”

  16. Mihály Kolosváry-Borcsa

    Hungarian journalist and extreme right-wing ideologist. He was the editor in chief of Függetlenség (extreme right-wing newspaper) from 1937 to 1945. In 1938 he was appointed to chief press officer of the Imrédy government. From 1939 until December 1944 he worked as president of the National Hungarian Press Chamber. In 1946 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.

  17. Ulrich Greifelt

    SS-Obergruppenführer, lieutenant general of police, and convicted war criminal. After the beginning of the Second World War, Greifelt was appointed Chief of Staff of RKFDV (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums; Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood) in October 1939. He was found guilty of war crimes at the RuSHA trial at Nuremberg, sentenced to life imprisonment, and died in Landsberg Prison.

  18. Günther Pancke

    SS-Obergruppenführer; General der Polizei; from 1943 untill 1945 Pancke was Higher SS and Police Leader in Denmark.

  19. Stephen Samuel Wise

    Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the grandson and son of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with excellence at the age of 18, and was ordained as a rabbi in 1893. He served as the rabbi in a number of communities in New York and in Oregon, and was a trail-blazer in the area of interdenominational cooperation in the United States. In 1902 he earned his doctoral degree from Columbia University. Wise began ...

  20. Hans Krebs

    Ethnic German politician. Born 1888 in Jihlava (Iglau). After WW I manager of the German National Socialist Workers' Party (Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP)) in Czechoslovakia. 1925 to 1933 member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Fled 1933 to Germany and became member of the SS and 1936 member of the Reichstag. From 1938 to 1945 Regierungspräsident in Aussig (Ústí nad Labem). Sentenced to death by a Czechoslovak court and executed 1947.