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  1. Kubovy Aryeh Leon

    • Kubovy, Aryeh L., 1896-1966
    • Kubowitzki, Aryeh Leon, 1896-1966
    • Kubovy, Arieh Leon, 1896-1966
    • Ḳubovi, Aryeh L., 1896-1966
    • קובובי, אריה ל.
    • ...

    02/11/1986

    16/05/1966

    Israeli diplomat and writer. Director of World Jewish Congres (1940-). The second Chairman of Yad Vashem.

  2. Stroop Juergen

    • Stroop, Jürgen, 1895-1952
    • Sḥtrop, Yurgen 1895-1952
    • Stroop, Joseph 1895-1952 Frueherer Name
    • Stroop, Josef 1895-1952 Frueherer Name
    • Stroop, Josef, 1895-1952
    • ...

    26/09/1895

    06/03/1952

    SS Brigadeführer. Put down the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

  3. Poliakov Leon

    • Poliakov, Léon, 1910-1997
    • Poljakov, Lev Vladimirovič, 1910-1997
    • Поляков, Лев Владимирович, 1910-1997
    • Polyaḳov, Leon, 1910-1997
    • Poliakov, Léon, 1910-
    • ...

    1910

    1997

    Jewish historian, emigrated from Russia to France in 1920. Served in the French army during WWII. One of the first historians of the Holocaust

  4. Kramer Josef

    • Kramer, Josef, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Josef

    10/11/1906

    13/12/1945

    KZ-Kommandant and SS-Hauptsturmführer. Since 1934 in Dachau, 1937/1938 in Sachsenhausen, 1939 in Mauthausen, May 1940 in Auschwitz, April 1941 Schutzhaftlagerführer , Oct 1942 Kommandant in Natzweiler, since May 1944 Kommandant in Auschwitz-Birkenau, since 1 Dec 1944 in Bergen-Belsen. Sentenced to death in Belsen Trial, executed.

  5. Stepinac Alojzije

    • Stepinac, Aloysius
    • Stepinac, Alojzije
    • Stepinac, Luigi.
    • Stepinec, Aloysius
    • Stepinac, Luis
    • ...

    08/05/1898

    10/02/1960

    Archbishop of Zaghreb (1937). Sentenced to 16 years of forced labour after having stated that the church would not enhance relations with the state before state oppression seized.

  6. Goebbels Joseph

    • Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945
    • Goebbels, Paul Joseph, 1897-1945
    • Goebbels, Josef, 1897-1945
    • Gkaimpels, Paoul Giozeph, 1897-1945
    • Gebbelʹs, Ĭosef 1897-1945
    • ...

    29/10/1897

    01/05/1945

    Reichsmininster for Volksaufklärung and Propaganda, Gauleiter of Berlin, one of the people closest to Hitler.

  7. Weissmandel Michael Dov

    • Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 1904?-1957
    • וייסמנדל, רחמ״ד
    • וויסמאנדל, מיכאל דוב
    • ווייסמאנדל, מיכאל בער, ?1904־1957
    • ווייסמאנדל, חיים מיכאל דוב, 1957־?1904
    • ...

    1903

    1956

    Rabbi in Slovakia. Helped halt the deportation of Slovakian Jews for two years, through the organisation Working Group, who bribed German and Slovakian officials. Created the Europa Plan the rescue European Jews Jews in hte same way. In 1944 broadcast the so called Auschwitz Protocols about the mass exterminations. Escaped from Auschwitz, settled in the United States. \

  8. Kurt Ball-Kaduri

    • יעקב קורט בל-כדורי

    Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From his own public activities in Germany, he knew very well that many activities were conducted without any documentation, especially after the Nazi r...

  9. Alter Avraham Mordechai

    • Alter, Abraham Mordecai, 1866-1948
    • ʾAlṭer, ʾAvraham Mordeḵay, 1866-1948
    • Alter, Abraham Mordechai, 1866-1948
    • ʾAdumur mi-Gur, 1866-1948
    • Alter, Abraham Mordechaj (1866-1948).
    • ...

    1865

    03/06/1948

    Rabbi. Escaped to Palestine in 1940.

  10. Weizsäcker Ernst Baron Von

    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von (1882-1951).
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 1882-1951
    • Von Weizsäcker, Ernst, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst Heinrich, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • ...

    12/05/1882

    04/08/1951

    1938-1943, State Secretary at the Foreign Office 1943-1945 German Ambassador to the Holy See.

  11. Bach-Zelewski Erich von dem

    • Bach, Erich ˜von demœ 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zelewski, Erich von dem Bach-, 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zalewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zalewski, Erich von dem Bach- 1899-1972
    • ...

    01/03/1899

    08/03/1972

    SS-Obergruppenführer , General der Polizei (General of police) (1944). 1938 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Silesia, 1941 HSSPF Russland-Mitte, head of Einsatzgruppe B. Since 21 June 1943 Bevollmächtigter des Reichsführer-SS zur Bandenbekämpfung (murder of Jews and partisans). 1944 suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. End of 1944/1945 Stabschef des Befehlshabers des Ersatzheeres. In the Nuremberg Trials crown witness for the prosecution. Sentenced to life for the murder of three communists in 1961.

  12. Adolf Abraham Berman

    • אדולף אברהם ברמן
    • Bermann, Adolf Abraham

    17/10/1906

    03/02/1978

    Psychologist, Zionist activist in the Warsaw ghetto underground and one of the leaders of ZEGOTA. Witness in Eichmann trial.

  13. Edelstein Jacob

    • Edelstein, Jakob, 1903-1944
    • Edelstein, Jakob
    • Edelstein, Jacob, -1944
    • אדלשטיין, יעקב.
    • Edelstein, Jakob, -1944
    • ...

    1903

    1944

    Zionist leader in Czechoslovakia. Chairman of the Ältestenrat in Terezín.

  14. Markish Peretz

    • Markish, Peretz, 1895-1952
    • Marḳish, Perets 1895-1952
    • Markisza, P., 1895-1952
    • Markisch, Peretz, 1895-1952
    • Markiš, Perec Davidovič, 1895-1952
    • ...

    1895

    1952

    Yiddish writer and poet; member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and of the editorial board of its journal, Eynikayt.

  15. Heydrich Reinhard

    • Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942
    • Geĭdrikh, Reĭngard 1904-1942
    • הידריך, רינהרד
    • Heydrich, Reinhard
    • Heydrich, R. (Reinhard), 1904-1942
    • ...

    07/03/1904

    04/06/1942

    Founder of the SD, 1936 head of the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo), 1939 Head of the RSHA, 1941 appointed by Hermann Göring to prepare a "solution to the Jewish question". Covened the Wannsee conference. 1941 appointed Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, and killed 1942 by the Czech resistance movement.

  16. Tenenbaum Mordekhai

    • Tenenbaum, Mordecai, 1916-1943
    • Ṭenenboim-Ṭamarof, Mordekhai 1916-1943
    • Ṭamarof, Mordekhai Ṭenenboim 1916-1943
    • Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, Mordekhai, 1916-1943
    • Tamaroff, Mordecai, 1916-1943
    • ...

    1916

    1943

    Organised resistance in Bialystok gehtto. Zionist.

  17. Szymon Datner

    Szymon Datner (1902-1989), historyk, pedagog. Studiował prawo i administrację na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim. W 1927 r. obronił doktorat z filozofii. W 1969 r. uzyskał stopień dr. hab. historii. Przed wojną pracował w szkolnictwie żydowskim (Kraków, Kielce, Pińsk, Białystok). W czasie wojny w getcie białostockim uczestniczył w ruchu oporu, a następnie walczył w żydowskim oddziale partyzanckim. Po wyzwoleniu pracował w białostockim Biuletynie Radiowym oraz w tamtejszej dyrekcji Lasów Państwowych. Był członkiem Wojewódzkiej Rady Narodowej i przewodniczącym Wojewódzkiego Komitetu Żydów w Biały...

  18. Kvitko Leib

    • Kvitko, Leib, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, Leyb, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, L., 1890-1952
    • קוויטקאָ, לייב, 1890-1952
    • Kwiṭko, Leib 1890-1952
    • ...

    01/01/1890

    12/08/1952

    Yiddish poet and novelist.

  19. Falkenhausen Alexander von

    • Falkenhausen, Alexander ˜vonœ 1878-1966
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Von
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von, 1878-1966
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Ernst 1878-1966 Baron von
    • Alexander 1878-1966 Freiherr von Falkenhausen
    • ...

    29/10/1878

    31/07/1966

    General of the German Infantry. 1940-1944 head of the military government (Chef der Militärverwaltung) in occupied Belgium and northern France, imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after the July Plot. After the war sentenced to 12 years of hard labour for shooting 240 hostages and for the deportation of 25000 Belgian Jews but released after three weeks in recognition of the fact that he also protected Belgians from the SS.

  20. Frumka Plotnicka

    • פרומקה פלוטניצקה

    Plotnicka Frumka (1914-1943) one of the leaders of HeHalutz underground movement in Poland. From early youth she was a member of and activist in the ""Dror"" Zionist movement. After the outbreak of the war along with other members of hakhsharot (Zionist training farms) she reached the Soviet occupied territories and in 1940 was called back to the German occupation zone with a group of ""Dror"" leaders to establish the underground network for the movement. From June 1940 onwards Plotnicka traveled throughout Poland, even to the most remote ghettoes to strenghten the underground network. In S...