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  1. Aleksandar Licht

    Dr. Aleksandar Licht (1884−1948) was an Croatian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia. Licht was born in village Sokolovac, near Koprivnica to a Croatian Jewish family. As a child he moved with his family to Zagreb. Licht was educated in Zagreb where he finished elementary and high school. He graduated as a lawyer at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. In 1909 he was promoted to a Doctor of law at the University of Zagreb. In 1913 he opened a law firm in Zagreb, but in 1914 he was drafted to a Austro-Hungarian Army. Upon completing military service, Licht retu...

  2. Sheptytsky Andrei

    • Šeptic'kij, Andrej (1865-1944).
    • Szeptycki, Roman Aleksander.
    • Sheptytsʹkyĭ, Andriĭ, 1865-1944
    • Sheptytsky, Andrei
    • Шептицький, Андрей, 1865-1944
    • ...

    1865

    1944

    Head of the Greek Catholic church in Southeast Poland. Leader of the Ukranian nationalist movement in Poland during WWII.

  3. Laura Papo - Bohoreta

    Laura Papo was born in 1891 and died in 1942.

    Laura Papo Bohoreta was born in Sarajevo on 15 March 1891, into the poor Jewish family of Juda and Esther Levi, the first of their seven children. Juda Levi was a trader, but as he did not have success in Sarajevo, he relocated to Istanbul in 1900 with his family. In Turkey, they changed the name of Luna into a more modern and international one - Laura. For eight years in Istanbul, Laura attended the International French School for Jews "Alliance Israélite Française". After eight years, Levi's family returned to Sarajevo, just as poor as before, only with more children. In order to help her...

  4. Michal Weichert

    Michal Weichert was born in Podhajce, eastern Galicia, Poland, 1890. He attended Polish schools, earned a degree in law at the University of Vienna, and also attended the Theater Arts Academy in Berlin. Upon his return to Poland, he established the Young Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He served as a Yiddish theater critic and was a prominent figure in the cultural life of the Jews of Poland during the 1920s and 1930s. At the same time, he also served as a legal advisor for charitable institutions and Jewish cultural organizations in Poland, and eventually he became a contact person with the Joi...

  5. Schneersohn Isaac

    • Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Shneursohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Schneerson, Yossef Yitzchok, 1880-1950
    • Schneerson, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Schneersohn, Yosef Yitzchok, 1880-1950
    • ...

    1969

    Established Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation.

  6. Ehrenburg Ilya Grigoryevich

    • Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1891-1967
    • Ehrenburg, Ilya, 1891-1967
    • Ehrenbourg, Ilya, 1891-1967
    • Ehrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡ Grigorʹevich, 1891-1967
    • Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡ Grigorʹevich, 1891-1967
    • ...

    27/01/1891

    01/09/1967

    Jewish Soviet poet and journalist of WWII, member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; worked with Vassily Grossmann, collecting and editing material for Chernaia kniga (Black Book) on the destruction of Jews.

  7. Churchill Winston

    • Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, Уинстон, 1874-1965
    • Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, 1874-1965
    • Čērčils, Vinstons, 1874-1965
    • ...

    1874

    24/01/1965

    Prime minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955).

  8. 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 ...

  9. Joseph Kermish

    • Joseph Kermisz

    Dr. Joseph Kermish was born in the town of Zlotniki, in the Tarnopol district, 1907. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and completed his doctoral studies in 1937. He spent the years 1936-1939 preparing a book of bibliographies on the history of Warsaw and the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw, work that was suspended with the outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939, and his draft into the Polish Army. He spent the period of the German occupation, from 1941, in the town of Probuzna, not far from Husiatin. During this period he served as the authorized representative of th...

  10. Dimitrov Georgi

    • Dimitrov, Georgi, 1882-1949
    • Dimitroff, G.
    • Dimitrov, Georgi
    • Dimitrov, Georgi Mihajlov
    • Dimitrow, G. (Georgi)
    • ...

    18/06/1882

    02/07/1949

    Bulgarian communist. After being acquitted as the star defendant at the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933, D. became general secretary of the comintern in 1935. Leader of Bulgarian communists after the Soviet liberation and became prime minister on 06.11.1946.

  11. Blumental Nachman

    • Blumental, Nachman 1905-1983
    • Blumental Naḥman 1905-1983
    • בלומענטאל נחמן 1905-1983
    • בלומנטל נחמן 1905-1983
    • Blwmenṭal Naḥman 1905-1983
    • ...

    1905

    1983

    Co-founder of the Jewish Historical Committee (Żydowska Komisja Historyczna), a Holocaust research body organized in Lublin in August 1944. In December 1944, the commission became an agency of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) and was renamed the Central Jewish Historical Commission (Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna). Director (1947-48) of the successor, the Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny; ŻIH), research institute, archive, library, and museum in Warsaw.

  12. Demjanjuk John Iwan

    • דמיאניוק, ג'ון, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, Ivan, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, G'ohn, 1920-2012
    • Demjanjuk, Iwan, 1920-2012
    • דמיניוק, ג'ון
    • ...

    03/04/1920

    17/12/2012

    Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced him to death. Demjanjuk appealed the verdict, and in 1993, he was acquitted because...

  13. Grossman Vasilii Semenovich‏

    • Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich, 1905-1964
    • Grossman, Vassili, 1905-1964
    • Grosman, Ṿasili, 1905-1964
    • Гроссман, Василий Семёнович, 1905-1964
    • Grossman, Wassilij, 1905-1964
    • ...

    1905

    1964

    Jewish author; member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; worked with Ilya Ehrenburg, collecting and editing material for Chernaia kniga (Black Book) on the destruction of Jews.

  14. Lavoslav Schick

    • Lavoslav Šik

    Lavoslav Schick (Šik) was a Croatian/Yugoslav Zionist, Judaist, journalist and a lawyer. He was born on the 27th of November 1881 in Vienna. After the death of his father, his mother married again and moved with his new husband and her two sons, Lavoslav (Leo) and Otto, in 1891 to Zagreb (Croatia) – then part of the Habsburg Empire. Schick studied Law in Zagreb, Vienna and Budapest and worked as a journalist. Already at the end of the 19th century he affirmed himself as a Zionist. He organized youth meetings, supported the Association of the South Slav Academics Bar Giora, founded 1902 in V...

  15. Dvorzetsky Mark Meir

    • Dvorjetski, Mark 1908-1975
    • Dbwrzeṣqiy Marq 1908-1975
    • Dvorjetski, Marc, 1908-1975
    • דבורזצקי מרק 1908-1975
    • Dvorzetsky, Mark Meir 1908-1975
    • ...

    1908

    1975

    Doctor, worked as a doctor in the Vilnius ghetto. Attempt to join the partisans failed. Deported from the ghetto to a labour camp in Estonia. Testified at Eichmann trial.

  16. Chaim Pazner

    • חיים פזנר
    • Chaim Pozner

    1899-1981

    Chaim Pazner was born in Kowal, Poland, 04 January 1899. In his youth he was active in the Hechalutz movement in the Wloclawek area in Poland, and he served as Vice-Principal of the Hebrew High School in Wloclawek. He was the director of the Committee of Assistance to Polish Refugees in Danzig, 1920-1922. He also served as the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Association (JTA) in Danzig, 1921-1923. He was one of the leaders of the League for Working Eretz Israel in Wloclawek, and he was elected as a representative to the 12th Zionist Congress in Karlsbad and to other Zionist convent...

  17. Sutzkever Abraham

    • Sutzkever, Abraham, 1913-2010
    • Suckewer, A.
    • Suckewer, Abraham.
    • Suckiewer, Abraham.
    • Suckewer, Abraham, 1913-2010
    • ...

    15/07/1913

    20/01/2010

    Acclaimed Yiddish poet and partisan fighter.

  18. Blum Leon

    • Blum, Léon, 1872-1950
    • Blum, Leʾon, 1872-1950
    • בלום, ליאון, 1872־1950
    • בלום, ליאון
    • בלום, לאיון
    • ...

    09/04/1872

    30/03/1950

    French statesman. First Jew and first Socialist to be premier of France (05.06.1936-19.06.1937 and 13.03.-10.04.1938), opposed granting absolute powers to Petain. Arrested on Petain's orders. Riom Trials (1942). Turned over to the Germans in March 1943. Liberated with the Niederdorf group.

  19. Miliband, Ralph

    • ミリバンド, ラルフ
    • Milibend, Ralph 1924-1994
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-1994
    • Milibend, Ral'f.
    • ...

    Ralph Miliband, the political scientist and socialist, was born in Belgium of Jewish parents on 7 January 1924. He and his father fled to London in 1940 as the German army was invading Belgium. Here he learned English and began to study at the London School of Economics (then exiled in Cambridge). After serving in the Royal Navy for three years he returned to his studies at LSE, graduated with first class honours, and then took a Ph.D. His first teaching post was at Roosevelt College, Chicago, but he then became a lecturer at LSE in 1949 until 1972, when he was appointed Professor of Politi...

  20. Šeinė Sideraitė

    • Sheina Sideraite

    1921-2005

    Šeinė Sideraitė gimė 1921-02-09 Lazdijuose. 1932 m. baigė Lazdijų žydų pradžios mokyklą, kurioje mokėsi hebrajų kalba. 1932–1940 m. mokėsi Lazdijų „Žiburio“ gimnazijoje. 1940–1941 m. studijavo Kauno Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Medicinos fakultete. 1941 m. vasarą evakavosi į Sovietų Sąjungą ir apsigyveno Tadžikijoje. 1941–1945 m. studijavo Stalinabado (dabar Dušanbė, Tadžikija) Medicinos institute bei dirbo preparatore, medicinos seserimi, gydytoja. 1945 m. grįžo į Lietuvą ir buvo priimta į Vilniaus valstybinio universiteto Medicinos fakulteto 5-ąjį kursą. Studijuodama dirbo Lietuvos TSR s...