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  1. Stern, Samu (1874 - 1946)

    Banker, Jewish community leader, president of the Jewish Council throughout its entire existence. Stern’s started his career as a wholesale food distributor, later he became the chief executive of one of Hungary’s largest financial institutions. He became involved in Jewish community life in the interwar period. In 1929, he was elected president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and in 1932 of the National Office of Hungarian Israelites. After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Stern was appointed head of the Jewish Council by the Nazis. He led the organisation until the Arrow...

  2. Czerniaków Adam

    • Czerniaków, Adam, 1880-1942
    • Czerniakow, Adam.
    • צ׳רניאקוב, אדם, 1880־1942
    • Czerniakow, Adam
    • Ṣ'erniyʼaqŵb, ʼAdam.

    1880

    1942

    Head of the Warsaw Judenrat. Kept a diary from September 6, 1939, until the day of his death (suicide). It was published in 1979 in the English language as the The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom.

  3. Schacht Hjalmar

    • Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Horace Greeley Hjalmar, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Hjalmar, 1877-1970
    • Schacht, Hjalmar
    • Schacht, H.
    • ...

    22/01/1877

    03/06/1970

    President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Forced out of the government in 1937 because of disagreements with Hitler.

  4. Freudiger Fülöp

    • Philipp von Freudiger
    • Pinchas Freudiger

    1900–1976

    Hungarian Jewish businessman, factory owner, community leader. Born in Budapest to a well-to-do family, Freudiger succeeded his father, Abraham, as the head of the Orthodox Jewish community of Budapest in 1939. Freudiger helped many of the Jewish refugees in Hungary. After German occupation, 1944 appointed to the Judenrat in Budapest. Through the intermediacy of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel of Bratislava, Freudiger established close contact with Dieter Wisliceny of the Eichmann Sonderkommando almost immediately after the occupation in March, 1944. By bribing Wisliceny, Freudiger succeeded ...

  5. Bernard (Ber) Mark

    Bernard (Ber) Mark. 1908-1966, dziennikarz, historyk, krytyk literacki, W 1932 r. ukończył prawo na UW, od 1954 r. profesor nadzwyczajny. 0d 1927 r. w KZM, od 1928 r. w KPP, w l. 1934-1935 r. redaktor legalnego komunistycznego dziennika "Der Frajnd" ("Przyjaciel"). W l. 1936-1938 członek zarządu Związku Literatów i Dziennikarzy Żydowskich. W l. 1942-43 pracował w Żydowskim Komitecie Antyfaszystowskim w Kujbyszewie i Moskwie, od 1944 r. członek Zarządu Głównego ZPP i wiceprzewodniczący Komitetu Organizacyjnego Żydów Polskich przy ZPP. W 1946 r. po powrocie do kraju członek Prezydium CKŻwP, p...

  6. Grodzinski Hayyim Ozer

    • Grodzinski, Ḥayyim Ozer, 1863-1940
    • Grodzensḳi, Ḥayim ʻOzer, 1863-1940
    • גראדזענסקי, חיים עוזר, 1863־1940
    • Grodsenski, Chaim Ozer, 1863-1940
    • גרודזנסקי, חיים־עוזר, 1863־1940
    • ...

    1863

    1940

    Jewish orthodox and Rabbi and rabbinical judge in Vilnius.

  7. Raeder Erich

    • Raeder, Erich
    • Raeder, Erich, 1876-1960
    • Raeder, E. (Erich), 1876-1960
    • Raeder, Erich.
    • Raeder, E.
    • ...

    24/04/1876

    06/11/1960

    Grand Admiral in the German Navy until retirement in 1941

  8. Schellenberg Walter

    • Schellenberg, Walter, 1910-1952
    • Šelenber, Wālter.
    • Schellenberg, Walter, 1910-
    • Schellenberg, Walter
    • Šellenberg, Val'ter 1910-1952
    • ...

    16/08/1910

    31/03/1952

    Supreme head of the espionage services in the Third Reich, and second to Himmler in the Gestapo hierarchy. Head of Amt VI (Auslandsnachrichtendienst) of the RSHA and since 1944 the demise of the "Abwehr".

  9. Doenitz Karl

    • Dönitz, Karl, 1891-1980
    • Doenitz, Karl, 1891-1980
    • Dönitz Oberleutnant zur See 1891-1980
    • Donitz, Karl
    • Dönitz, Karl
    • ...

    16/09/1891

    24/12/1980

    Großadmiral, commander of the German navy (Kriegsmarine).

  10. Louis Darquier de Pellepoix

    • [Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis]
    • Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis, 1897-1980
    • Pellepoix, Louis Darquier de, 1897-1980
    • Darquier Louis 1897-1980
    • Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis
    • ...

    1897

    1980

    French coordinator of the anti-Jewish programme of the Vichy government, head of the CGQJ (The General Office for Jewish Questions) 1942 - 1944.

  11. Max Lowenthal

    • Max Loewenthal

    Max Lowenthal was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1888; a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney and a lifelong public servant; he served as an advisor and personal friend of President Harry S. Truman. In 1946, General Lucius D. Clay, the Deputy Governor of the US Military Government in Occupied Germany, asked various representatives of American Jewish organizations to suggest an advisor who could help Clay in drafting legislation regarding the restitution of Jewish property looted by Nazi Germany. Max Lowenthal was chosen for this job; he spent six weeks in Germany collecting evide...

  12. Viktoras Golovčineris

    • Victor Golovchiner

    He was born on June 28, 1905 in Minsk into a teachers' family. In 1921-1926 he studied at the Belarusian opera and drama studio in Moscow. In 1938-1949 he taught at the art school in Minsk. From 1934 he was a member of the Soviet Writers' Union. He acted in and directed many Belarusian theatres until 1949, when he was accused of staging 'nationalistic' and 'cosmopolitan' plays. In 1949-1953 he was a theatre director in Irkutsk, and in 1953-1954 in the Tashkent Russian Drama Theatre. In 1949-1955 he taught at the Tashkent Institute of Theatre Arts. In 1955-1961 he taught in the Conservatory ...

  13. Murmelstein Benjamin

    • Murmelstein, Benjamin, 1905-
    • Murmelstein, Benjamin, 1905-1989
    • Murmelstein, B., 1905-1989
    • Murmelsztajn, Benjamin 1905-
    • Murmelstein, Benjamin
    • ...

    1905

    1989

    Rabbi in the Vienna Jewish community, member of the Judenrat. Deported to Theresienstadt, deputy and later Judenältester.

  14. Imrédy Béla

    • Imrédy, Béla, 1891-1946
    • Imredy, Bela

    29/12/1891

    28/02/1946

    Hungarian economist and politician, the Minister of Finance under the Gömbös Cabinet (1932-36), and the President of the Hungarian National Bank. Under Prime Minister Darányi he was Minister of Economics. From May 14, 1938, to February 14, 1939, he was Prime Minister. He founded the Party of Hungarian Renewal (Magyar Megújulás Pártja) in 1940. The first anti-Jewish law was passed under and the second was introduced by his government. He resigned when it was suggested that he had Jewish ancestors; the main reason for his downfall, however, was that his politics was incompatible with Horthy’s...

  15. Koppe Wilhelm

    • Koppe, Wilhelm, 1896-1975
    • Koppe, Wilhelm

    15/06/1896

    02/07/1975

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1942), General der Polizei. October 1939 appointed HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer) in the Warthegau. Responsible i.A. for the deportations of Jews from the Lodz / Litzmannstadt Ghetto.

  16. Burckhardt Carl Jacob

    • Burckhardt, Carl Jacob
    • Burckhardt, Carl Jacob, 1891-1974
    • Burckhardt, Carl J., 1891-1974
    • Burckhardt, Carl Jakob, 1891-1974
    • Burckhardt, Carl, 1891-1974
    • ...

    10/09/1891

    03/03/1974

    Swiss diplomat and historian. 1937-1939 League of Nations High Commissioner for the Free City of Danzig, in leading position in the ICRC, president after WWII.

  17. Veil Simone

    • Veil, Simone, 1927-....
    • Veil, Simone
    • Veil, Simone (French politician, born 1927)
    • Simone Veil
    • Jacob, Simone 1927- Frueherer Name
    • ...

    1927

    French-Jewish lawyer, politician and Auschwitz-survivor. Elected minister of health in 1974 and president of the Council of Europe in 1979.

  18. Kaltenbrunner Ernst

    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1903-1946
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1902-1946

    04/10/1903

    16/10/1946

    Head of the SS and police in Austria. Since 01.01.1943, head of RSHA and of Sipo and SD. Sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

  19. Murmelstein, Benjamin (* 9.6.1905)

    Murmelstein was born in 1905 in Lemberg/Lwov (Galicia), studied in Vienna and became a rabbi. After the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938, he worked for the Viennese Jewish community subordinated to the Nazis and organised both emigration and deportation of local Jews. In January 1943, he was deported to Terezín, where he was appointed to the "Council of Elders". He catalogued Hebrew manuscripts and was charged with the "beautification" of Terezín in preparation for the visit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1944). From September 1944, he served as the head of the "Council of E...

  20. Kovpak Sidor

    • Kovpak, S. A. 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sydir Artemovych, 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sidor Artemʹevich, 1887-1967
    • Kowpak, A. S.
    • Kovpak, S.
    • ...

    07/06/1887

    11/12/1967

    Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine.