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  1. Lubetkin Zivia

    • Lubetkin, Cywia
    • Lubetkin, Zivia
    • Lubetkin-Zuckerman, Zivia.
    • Tsuḳerman, Tsivyah Lubeṭḳin-
    • Lubeṭḳin-Tsuḳerman, Tsivyah
    • ...

    09/11/1914

    11/07/1978

    Founder of Jewish Fighting Organisation in occupied Poland (ZOB). Fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  2. Kovner Abba

    • Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987
    • Kovner, Aba.
    • Kovner, Abba
    • Ḳovner, Aba 1918-1987
    • קובנר, אבא
    • ...

    14/03/1918

    25/09/1987

    Underground leader and partisan commander; a leader of the Beriha movement; Hebrew poet and writer. One of the FPO leaders, became its commander in 1943, lead escape of Vilnius ghetto fighters into the forest, commanded Jewish partisan unit in the Rudninkai forest.

  3. Chackelis Kibarskis

    1903-2003

    Chackelis Kibarskis gimė 1903-10-14 Lazdijų rajone Šeštokų kaime. 1918–1923 m. mokėsi Marijampolės žydų (hebrajų) gimnazijoje. 1923–1928 m. studijavo Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Medicinos fakultete. 1932–1936 m. tobulinosi Prahos (Čekija) ir Vienos (Austrija) klinikose, 1936–1938 m. – Ciuricho (Šveicarija) klinikose. 1930–1934 m. buvoo Kauno žydų ligoninės Vidaus ligų skyriaus gydytojas asistentas, 1934–1941 m. – to paties skyriaus vedėjas. 1942–1946 m. – Raudonosios armijos 16-osios lietuviškosios šaulių divizijos vyriausias terapeutas, Medicinos bataliono vadas. 1946–1952 m. Ch. Kibarsk...

  4. Globocnik Odilo

    • Globocnik, Odilo, 1904-1945
    • Globots'niḳ, Odilo, 1904-1945
    • גלובוצ׳ניק, 1904־1945
    • Globocnik, Odilo

    21/04/1904

    31/05/1945

    SS-Obergruppenführer. 1939 SS- und Polizeiführer in Lublin. Commissioned by Himmler with the "Final Solution" in Poland, code name "Aktion Reinhard". Responsible for the establishment of the extermination camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. In addition, 1943 manager of the Ostindustrie GmbH (OSti) in Lublin rob Jewish assets and to exploit Jewish labour prior to mass murder. Since 13 Sept 1943 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, including the Italian concentration camp San Saba in Trieste. Suicide.

  5. Leyb Koniuchowsky

    • Leib Koniuchowsky

    Leyb Koniuchowsky was born in Lithuania on 18 November 1910. An engineer by profession, he resided in Kaunas (Kovno). During the German occupation he lived in the Kaunas Ghetto and worked there until his escape. He found shelter in a bunker at a farmer's home where he remained until the liberation of Lithuania by the Red Army in 1944. From 1944-46, he wandered through the war battered towns of Lithuania, collecting testimonies from the few Jews that survived. The testimonies focus on the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of the local towns and villages. Koniuchowsky was meticulo...

  6. Sendler Irena

    • Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008
    • Sendler, Irena, 1910-2008
    • Krzyżanowska, Irena 1910-2008
    • Krzyżanowska, Irena Stanisława, 1910-2008
    • Sendlerowa, Irena
    • ...

    15/02/1910

    12/05/2008

    Social worker and an active member in the Polish underground organisation Żegota (Council for Aid to Jews). Smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto providing them with false identity and housing outside the Ghetto. 1965 Righteous Among the Nations.

  7. Rudolf Kasztner

    • Rezső Kasztner

    1906-1957

    Rudolf Kasztner, lawyer, journalist, Zionist activist. Kasztner’s name is associated with several rescue operations during the Holocaust. In 1942, he helped found the Relief and Rescue Committee (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) of Budapest, a clandestine group that smuggled Jews from Slovakia and Poland to Hungary. Kasztner brought copies of the so-called Auschwitz Protocols from Slovakia to Hungary at the end of April 1944. In the summer of 1944 Kasztner attempted a rescue operation that became known as the Kasztner Train. After Kasztner's immigration t...

  8. Neurath Constantin Freiherr von

    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Freiherr Von
    • Neurath, Konstantin, Freiherr von, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl, 1873-1956
    • Neurath, Konstantin ˜vonœ 1873-1956
    • ...

    02/02/1873

    15/08/1956

    German Foreign Minister (1932-1938). Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1943).

  9. Mussolini Benito

    • Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
    • Mousolini, Benito, 1883-1945
    • Duce, 1883-1945
    • موسوليني، بنيتو، 1883-1945
    • מוסוליני, ביניטו, 1883-1945
    • ...

    29/07/1883

    28/04/1945

    Prime minister (1922-43). First European fascist dictator. Executed by partisans in 1945.

  10. Israel Gutman

    • ישראל גוטמן

    Member of the underground and the Jewish Combat Organization and participant in the Warsaw ghetto urprising. He survived and was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. After the war he was active in the Zionist youth organizaion Hashomer Hatzair in Austria and Italia, where participated in the foundation of Kibbutz Aviv in Leuca de Senta. In 1947 he emigrated to Israel and joined the kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan. In 1961 he testified at the Eichmann trial. Gutman was a profesor of history at the hebrew University of Jerusalem and editor in chief of the Encyclope...

  11. Krüger Friedrich-Wilhelm

    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilehlm, 1894-1957
    • Krüger, Friedrich-Wilhelm 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich W. 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • ...

    08/05/1894

    10/05/1945

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1935), General der Polizei (General of Police). 1935 in the Stab Reichsführer SS, 1936 SS-Hauptamt. Since Oct 1939 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Ost in Krakow, in addition since May 1942 "Staatssekretär für das Sicherheitswesen im Generalgouvernement". Commanded what was later called the "Blutsonntag von Stanislau" (Bloody Sunday of Stanislawów) on 12 Oct 1941, a mass killing with 12,000 Jews shot. Suicide.

  12. Karski Jan

    • Karski, Jan, 1914-2000
    • Kozielewski-Karski, Jan, 1914-2000
    • Witold 1914-2000 Pseudonym
    • Kozielewski, Jan 1914-2000 Wirklicher Name
    • コジェレフスキ, ヤン
    • ...

    24/06/1914

    13/07/2000

    Resistance fighter. Member of the Polish underground, courier to the Polish Government-in-exile, slipped twice into the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and subsequently made his way to London and the US to report on the deplorable conditions he witnessed. Righteous gentile.

  13. Streckenbach Bruno

    • Streckenbach, Bruno, 1902-1978
    • Streckenbach, Bruno Heinrich Hugo, 1902-1978
    • Streckenbach, Bruno

    07/02/1902

    28/10/1977

    Head of Gestapo Hamburg (1933). Commander of Einsatzgruppe 1 in Poland (1939). In November 1939 appointed Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) of the Generalgouvernement. Head of Amt I of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (1940). In Waffen SS (1943), general (1944-).

  14. Fefer Isaak Solomonovich

    • Fefer, Itzik, 1900-1952
    • Fefer, Isaac.
    • Fefer, Isaac Solomonovič.
    • Fefer, Icik.
    • Feffer, Itzik
    • ...

    1900

    1952

    Author.

  15. Wilhelm Brauckmann

    • Wilhelm Karl August Brauckmann

    Brauckmann was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and lived in Luxembourg. He joined the NSDAP in 1935. In autumn 1940, he was appointed to the Civil Administration in occupied Luxembourg (CdZ) and assigned to Subdepartment IVa, headed by Dr. Hans Christian Neugebauer, where he worked until September 1944. He served in a unit dealing with house contents, until 1942, of which he then became commander. After receiving confiscation instructions from Neugebauer, Brauckmann’s unit drew up lists of the contents of deportees’ and migrants’ homes, confiscated their belongings, sold them on the free mar...

  16. Göring Hermann

    • Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946
    • Goering, Hermann, 1893-1946
    • Goering 1893-1946
    • Göring, Hermann Wilhelm
    • Goering, Hermann Wilhelm
    • ...

    12/01/1893

    15/10/1946

    Reichsmarschall. One of the main leaders of the Nazi state. Headed the Air Ministry and air force (Luftwaffe) and minister in charge of the Four Year Plan.

  17. Pohl Oswald

    • Pohl, Oswald
    • Pohl, Ludwig Oswald, 1892-1951
    • Pohl, Oswald, 1892-1951

    30/06/1892

    08/06/1951

    Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Dept (1942-) ( SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt ). Responsible for sending valuables, clothes and hair from gassed Jewish inmates to Germany

  18. Karl Linnas

    1919-1987

    Karl Linnas was, between 1941 and 1943, the commandant of a concentration camp at Tartu during the German occupation of Estonia. After Soviet forces pushed the Germans out of Estonia, Linnas fought with the German army. After the war he stayed in Displaced Persons camps in Germany until emigrating to the USA in 1951. During the show trial in Soviet Estonia in 1962 he was sentenced to capital punishment. In 1979 U.S. immigration officials charged him with making false statements to gain entry to the United States. In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, New York, stripped then-62-yea...

  19. Fleischmann Gisi

    • Fleischmannová, Gizi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmannová, Gisela, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi
    • פלישמן, גישי
    • ...

    21/01/1892

    1944

    President of the Slovak WIZO, and representative of the Joint in Slovakia. Gisi Fleischmann was one of the few female Jewish leaders in Europe during World War II. She helped Jews in Slovakia to find refuge in other countries before the war and in the midst of the war. As a member of the Bratislava underground Working Group, she was involved with the Europa Plan and the Children’s Rescue Plan, which attempted to save Jews through bribery and negotiations with the Nazis. Fleischmann was arrested by the SS in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. She was murdered on arrival in Auschwitz in October ...

  20. Dirlewanger Oskar Paul

    • Dirlewanger, Oskar-Paul, 1895-1945
    • Dirlewanger, Oskar, 1895-1945
    • Dirlevanger, Oskar Daulʹ, 1895-1945
    • Dirlewanger, Oskar

    26/09/1895

    07/06/1945

    Obersturmführer (1939), SS-Standartenführer (1944). Joined the Condor Legion in 1937. 1940 founded the special SS battalion "Dirlewanger" made up of criminals. This unit was investigated by a Hauptamt SS court for extreme cruelty and murderous havoc during "partisan combat" in Poland and Belarus. The "Dirlewanger" unit was also active in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.