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  1. Borisas Gurinovičius

    • Borisas Pavlovičius Gurinovičius

    Borisas Gurinovičius was born on 24 February 1907 in Kashinas town (Kalininas region, Russia). Since 1922 the family settled in Vilnius. In Vilnius Gurinovičius finished secondary school and started studies at the Steponas Batoras University in Vilnius. In 1936 he graduated from the university and work as a specialist of agriculture. Was able to survive the Holocaust in the East of Soviet Union. After the Second World war returned to Vilnius. Beside his primary work he was know as a collector. His the most famous collections are: "Kosmosas/Space", "Pasaulio sostinės/World Capitals", "Vilnia...

  2. Gutmannová, Františka (1899 - 1944)

    Born 1899. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Baroness Františka Gutmannová (neé Mayová) was the wife of the industrial magnate Vilém Gutmann, co-owner of Gebrüder Gutmann. Amongst other things, this company owned coal mines in Upper Silesia and, with the Rothschilds, founded what is now the Vítkovice Ironworks. Vilém Gutmann emigrated before the outbreak of war. Františka remained alone in Prague with her four children Eliška, Zuzana, Gertruda and František. During WWII she worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, in the stock of the Treuhandstelle. In the summer of 1944, together with her children...

  3. Krausz Miklós

    01/01/1908

    1985

    Hungarian Jewish Zionist activist. In 1932 he was appointed as the general secretary of the "Mizrahi" and “Hapoel Hamizrahi” organisations in Hungary. In 1934 he was the secretary of the Eretz-Israel Office in Budapest and from 1938 to 1946 its manager. In April 1944, a few weeks after the German invasion of Hungary, all the 7,800 certificates that were not used by Jews, who were deported or exterminated by the Nazis all over Europe, arrived. But after Romania switched alliance to the Russians (23.8.1944) the way to Palestine was blocked. The Swiss consul, Carl Lutz obtained from the Hungar...

  4. Koch Karl Otto

    • Koch, Karl-Otto
    • Koch, Karl 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto, 1897-1945

    02/08/1897

    05/04/1945

    KZ-Kommandant, SS-Standartenführer. Since 1935 head of the Wachtrupp of Esterwegen concentration camp, commander (Kommandant) of Columbiahaus in Berlin, since April 1936 commander of Esterwegen concentration camp. Since Aug 1, 1937 commander of Buchenwald, January to August 1942 commander of Lublin-Majdanek death camp.

  5. 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...

  6. Nathan Schwalb

    Nathan Schwalb was born in Stanislawow, Poland (today Ivano Frankovsk, Ukraine) in 1908. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and was member of Kibbutz Hulda. He spent World War II in Geneva as the representative of the World Hechalutz movement, serving as contact person and a financial welfare source for the Jews. He corresponded with hundreds of people in the occupied countries and was active in many areas including the sending of parcels via the Red Cross, mainly to Poland, and transferring funds via messengers whom he drafted for this purpose. Schwalb attempted to keep in touch with Hechalutz ...

  7. Arlozorov Chaim

    • Arlosoroff, Chaim
    • Arlozorof, Ḥayim
    • Arlozoroff, Haim
    • Arlosoroff, Chaim, 1899-1933
    • Arlosoroff, Victor, 1899-1933
    • ...

    1899

    A Zionist leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine, prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, and head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency. In 1933, Arlosoroff was assassinated in Tel Aviv.

  8. Frank Karl Hermann

    • Frank, Karl Hermann
    • Frank, Karl Hermann, 1898-1946
    • Frank, Karl H. 1898-1946
    • Frank.
    • Frank, K. H. 1898-1946
    • ...

    24/01/1898

    22/05/1946

    SS-Gruppenführer. In 1936, deputy of Henlein, in 1938 appointed deputy NSDAP-Gauleiter Sudetengau. From 1939 to 1944 state secretary (Staatssekretär) at the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, at the same time Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer. Executed.

  9. Yerushalmi Eliezer

    • Yerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • Jerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר
    • Yerushalmi, A., 1900-1962
    • ...

    Member of "the delegation" in Siaulilai ghetto (Lithuania). Kept a diary giving an account of events in the ghetto.

  10. Komoly Ottó

    1892

    1945

    Architect, Zionist leader. During the Holocaust, Komoly was among the most prominent Hungarian Jewish leaders to participate in rescuing the Jews of Hungary. Zionist organisations established the so-called Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) in 1942. Komoly, as president of this organisation, smuggled Jews across the border, assisted refugees in Hungary, and made preparations for the self-defence of the Jewish community. Komoly’s rescue action of Jewish children was his most successful achievement. He worked in this a...

  11. Killinger Manfred von

    14/07/1886

    02/09/1944

    SA-Obergruppenführer. Member of the NSDAP since 1927, 1932 Inspekteur (Chief of Staff) of the SA, 1933 Ministerpräsident of Saxony, 1935 Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office), member of the Volksgerichtshof (Nazi "People's Court"). 1936 Generalkonsul (consul general) in San Francisco, summer 1939 Gesandter (envoy) in Pressburg (Bratislava), 1941-1944 responsible for "Judenangelegenheiten" ("Jewish affairs"). K. commited suicide when the Red Army marched into Bucharest.

  12. Moshe Agami (Averbuch)

    • משה אגמי (אוורבוך)

    Activist of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet. Born in 1907 in Latvia, he immigrated In 1928 to Eretz Israel and joined Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. In 1938 he went on a mission to the Austrian "Hehalutz"; In 1939-1940 he continued to work on behalf of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet in Switzerland and Hungary. In 1942-1943 he served as the emissary of the Mossad L'Aliyah Bet in Iran and in 1944 he was active in Istanbul, Turkey. From there he went to Romania and worked there as a representative of the Mossad Le'Aliya Bet until 1946. He also worked in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in foreign enlistment on behalf of the...

  13. Höß Rudolf

    • Höß, Rudolf, 1900-1947
    • Höess, Rudolf
    • Höss, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand.
    • Gëss, Rudol'f.
    • Höss.
    • ...

    25/11/1900

    16/04/1947

    Commander (Kommandant) of Auschwitz.

  14. Dannecker Theodor

    • Dannecker, Theodor
    • Dannecker, Theodor, 1913-1945
    • Dannecker, Theo, 1913-1945

    27/03/1913

    10/12/1945

    SS-Hauptsturmführer (1942). 1934 Wachtrupp Columbia-House Berlin, then SS-Wachverband Brandenburg. Since 1937 member of Eichmann's staff in SD-Hauptamt. Sept 1940 Leiter (head) of the Judenreferat for the Befehlshaber (commander) of the Sipo and SD (BdS) Belgium-France. Jan 1943 Sonderkommando Eichmann in Hungary, since Oct 1944 Judenreferent of the BdS Italy. Suicide in US imprisonment.

  15. Six Franz

    • Six, Franz Alfred, 1906-1975
    • Six, F. A.
    • Siks, Franc Alfred
    • Six, Franz
    • Six, Franz Alfred, 1909-1975
    • ...

    09/07/1906

    09/07/1975

    One of the early leaders of the SD, press specialist. 1944 appoined head of Amt II of the RSHA (Gegnerforschung - opposition research).

  16. Safran Alexandru

    • Safran, Alexandre, 1910-2006
    • Şafran, Alexandru, 1910-2006
    • Safran, Alexandre
    • Șafran, Alexandru
    • Śafran, Aleksander Y.
    • ...

    1910

    2006

    Chief Rabbi of Romania from 1940 to 1947 and philopsopher of Judaism. One of the signatories of a memorandum objecting to the closing of synagoges (1940)

  17. Teleki Pál

    • Teleki, Pál, gróf, 1879-1941
    • Teleki, Pál, 1879-1941
    • Teleki, Paul.
    • Tèleki, Paul 1879-1941
    • Teleki, Paolo 1879-1941
    • ...

    01/11/1879

    03/04/1941

    Geographer and politician. Hungarian Prime Minister 1920-1921 and 1939-1941). Wrote the preamble to the Second Anti-Jewish Law (1939) and prepared the Third Anti-Jewish Law ( 1940). Signed more than 50 anti-Jewish decrees during his rule. In April 1941 committed suicide to protest Hungary's active support of Nazi Germany's invasion of Yugoslavia.

  18. Sikorski Wladyslaw Eugeniusz

    • Sikorski, Władysław, 1881-1943
    • Sikorski, Władysław Eugeniusz, 1881-1943
    • Sikorski, L., 1881-1943
    • Sikorski, Władysław Eugeniusz Kopaszyna, 1881-1943
    • Sikorski, Ladislaus, 1881-1943
    • ...

    20/05/1881

    04/07/1943

    General and statesman. Lead Poland's government in exile during WWII. Condemned the genocide against the Jews.

  19. Pechersky Aleksandr

    • Pečerskij, Aleksandr Aronovič, 1909-1990
    • Peczerski, Aleksander.
    • Pecherskiĭ, Aleksandr Aronovich 1909-1990
    • Petschjorski Aleksander Aronowitsch 1909-1990
    • Pečërskij, Aleksandr Aronovič 1909-1990
    • ...

    1909

    1990

    Chief organiser and leader of the uprising and mass-escape of Jews from Sobibor extermination camp on 14.10.1943

  20. Jarblum Marc

    • Jarblum, Marc, 1887-1972
    • יארבלום, מרדכי
    • יארבלום, מ.
    • Jarblum, Mordʹkhai, 1887-1972
    • Jarblum, M.
    • ...

    1887

    1972

    Socialist president of the Zionist Organization of France and head of the Fédération des Sociétés juives de France (FSJF), one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in rance, refuged in Geneve, Switzerland, in 1943.