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  6. Abelis Klenickis

    Lithuanian composer, conductor and violinist was born on 14 July, 1904 in Tauragė. Studied at the Kaunas Conservatory in the classes of Juozas Gruodis and Jurgis Karnavičius. In 1953 Klenickis graduated (composition) at the Lithuanian Conservatory, he also took postgraduate cources at the Moscow Conservatory (conducting) in the class of L. Ginzburg. Klenickis served as president of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. He died on 14 May 1990 in Vilnius.

  8. Abetz Otto

    26/03/1903

    05/05/1958

    German ambassador in Paris since August 1940.

  9. Abolaffio, Vittorio

    • Vittorio Abolaffio

  10. Abraham Asscher

    19 September 1880 – 2 May 1950

    a Dutch Jewish businessman and politician from Amsterdam. In the 1930s, he became a leader and spokesmen of the Dutch Jewish community. He served as the President of the nation’s central Jewish organization, the Nederlandsch-Israëlitsch Kerkgenootschap (Dutch Jewish Congregation). When Jewish refugees began to flee in numbers to the Netherlands from the Nazi regime in Germany, it was Asscher, along with Professor David Cohen, who established (with government support) two organizations to deal with the situation. The Comité voor Bijzondere Joodse Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Intere...

  11. Abraham Kalmanowitz

    • אברהם קלמנוביץ

    Played a leading role in the the activities of the Va'ad Ha-hatsala of the Orthodox Rabbis in the USA

  12. Abraham Leib Zissu

    • אברהם לייב זיסו

    Romanian Jewish politician, journalist, and essayist

  13. Abraham Neumann

  14. Abraham Puls

    Dutch busines man who cooperated with the German Occupier. Puls had a moving company, that cleared and took away possessions from 29.000 Jewish houses, including the Achterhuis of Anne Frank.

  15. Abraham Salomon Levisson

    8 June 1902 - 25 April 1945

    In 1935 he was appointed chief rabbi of Friesland. This appointment included responsibility for the district of Drenthe. In 1941 he was also appointed chief rabbi of Gelderland. An announcement in recognition of this appointment appeared on the front page of the Joodsche Weekblad in July 1941. Abraham Salomon Levisson founded the circle of Jewish academics in Friesland in an effort to retain Jewish intellectuals within the Jewish community. Chief Rabbi Levisson was one of the leaders in the Leeuwarden subcommittee of the committee for special Jewish interests. In the late 1930s Levisson bec...

  16. Abraham Silberschein

    Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerland from where he tried to organize relief activities for the persecuted Jews in Poland and Germany. He was the fo...

  17. Abraham Spiegel