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  1. Murmelstein, Benjamin (* 9.6.1905)

    Murmelstein was born in 1905 in Lemberg/Lwov (Galicia), studied in Vienna and became a rabbi. After the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938, he worked for the Viennese Jewish community subordinated to the Nazis and organised both emigration and deportation of local Jews. In January 1943, he was deported to Terezín, where he was appointed to the "Council of Elders". he catalogued Hebrew manuscripts and was charged with the "beautification" of Terezín in preparation for the visit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1944). From September 1944, he served as the head of the "Council of E...

  2. Petras Baublys

    Petras Baublys was born on 23 May 1914 in Lyda (Byelorussia). He was Pediatrician and head of an orphanage in Kaunas. During the Nazi occupation, an underground Jewish organization active in the Kovno ghetto asked Baublys if the orphanage, situated in the same section of the city as the ghetto, could be used as a temporary place of refuge for Jewish children and a steppingstone for moving Jewish children to safer, permanent locations. Baublys agreed; over time, tens of Jewish babies and children were admitted into the orphanage. In 1977 Baublys was posthumously awarded the title "Righteous ...

  3. Filderman Wilhelm

    • Filderman, Wilhelm
    • Filderman, Wilhelm, 1882-1963
    • Filderman, W., 1882-1963
    • Filderman, W. (Wilhelm), 1882-1963
    • Filderman, Ṿilhelm 1882-1963
    • ...

    1882

    1863

    Jewish lawyer.

  4. Rauff Walther

    • Rauff, Walter
    • Rauff, Walther
    • Rauff, Walther, 1906-1984
    • Rauff, Walter, 1906-1984
    • Rauff, Hermann Julius Walther Rauff 1906-1984 Vollstaendiger Name
    • ...

    19/06/1906

    SS officer and RSHA functionary. Responsible for arming Einsatzgruppen and for building gas waggons. Head of an SD-Einsatzkommando in Tunis.

  5. Sternbuch Isaac

    Representative in the Va'ad ha-hatsala rescue committee of the Orthodox rabbis in the United States together with his wife Recha. Headed the Relief Organisation for Jewish Refugees Abroad. Helped rescue numerous Jews from Poland and Czechoslovakia.

  6. Saburov Aleksandr

    • Saburov, A.
    • Saburow, A.
    • Saburov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
    • Saburow, Aleksander
    • Saburov, Oleksandr
    • ...

    01/08/1908

    15/04/1974

    One of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine and western Russia

  7. Mengele Josef

    • Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979?
    • Mengele, Joseph, 1911-1979?
    • Mengele, Josef, 1911-
    • Mengele, Joseph (Josef), 1911-1979
    • メンゲレ
    • ...

    16/03/1911

    07/02/1979

    Nazi chief doctor at Auschwitz. Participated in selections and organised medical experiments on prisoners. Escaped to Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil after the war.

  8. Wittenberg Yitzhak

    • Wittenberg, Yitzhak
    • Wittenberg, Yiṣḥāq 1907-1943
    • Wittenberg, Yiẓḥak 1907-1943
    • Wittenberg, Yitzhak 1907-1943
    • Wittenberg, Leo Itzig 1907-1943
    • ...

    1907

    1943

    First commander of Farey-Negte Partizaner Organizatsye in Vilna ghetto.

  9. 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...

  10. Jeckeln Friedrich

    • Jeckeln, Friedrich, 1895-1946
    • Jeckeln, Friedrich

    02/02/1895

    03/02/1946

    SS-Obergruppenführer. 1933 Chief of police in Brunswick, 1940 HSSPF West in Düsseldorf; 1941 HSSPF of "Heeresgebiet Süd" (Ukraine); 1941 HSSPF Nord und Ostland. Responsible i.A. for mass murders of Jews in Kamenez-Podolsk, Babi Jar and the Riga Ghetto.

  11. Hinkel Hans

    • Hinkel, Hans, 1901-....
    • Hinkel, Hans, b. 1901
    • Hinkel, Hans 1901-1960
    • Hinkel, Hans

    22/06/1901

    08/02/1960

    SS-Gruppenführer. Head of the Reich Culture Chamber (Reichskulturkammer); since 1942 also head of the film department at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda); 1944 appointed National Film Superintendent (Reichsfilmintendant).

  12. Heß Rudolf

    • Hess, Rudolf
    • Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987
    • Hess, Walter Richard Rudolf, 1894-1987
    • Hess, Richard Walter Rudolf, 1894-1987
    • Hīs, Rūdulf 1894-1987
    • ...

    26/04/1894

    17/08/1987

    Stellvertreter des Führers (StdF).

  13. Bousquet René

    • Bousquet, René, 1909-1993
    • Bousquet, Rene

    1909

    1993

    Secretaire general de la Police, Vichy, 1942 - 1943. B. left France in 1944 and pretended to have been deported.

  14. Schwammberger Josef

    • Schwammberger, Josef
    • Schwammberger, Josef Franz Leo 1912-2004
    • Schwammberger, Josef, 1912-2004
    • Schwammberger, Josef (Josef Franz Leo), 1912-

    14/02/1912

    Commander of Ghettos in Przemyśl.

  15. Sugihara Sempo

    • 杉原, 千畝, 1900-1986
    • スギハラ, チウネ, 1900-1986
    • Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986
    • Sugihara, Chiune.
    • 杉原千畝, 1900-1986.
    • ...

    01/01/1900

    31/07/1986

    Consul general in Kovno, Lithuania. Assisted Jewish refugees in 1940. Righteous among the nations from 1984.

  16. Wallenberg Raoul

    • Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947
    • Wallenberg, Raoul 1912-1945
    • Vallenberg, Raulʹ, 1912-1947
    • Валленберг, Рауль, 1912-1947
    • Wallenberg, Raoul
    • ...

    05/08/1912

    17/07/1947

    Swedish architect, businessman and diplomat. He arrived in Hungary in July 1944 as a member of the Swedish diplomatic mission. He played a dominant role in the diplomatic protection provided for Jews. He issued thousands of protective documents and placed numerous Budapest buildings under Swedish protection during the Arrow Cross regime. Soviet authorities arrested him in January 1945 and took him to Moscow, where he died in 1947.

  17. Herschel Grynszpan

    • הרשל גרינשפן

    A Polish-German Jew who shot Nazi German foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath at the German Embassy in Paris on November 7, 1938, in protest against the deportation of thousands of Jews of Polish citizenship living in Germany, including his parents. The assassination provided the Nazis with the pretext for the long planned November pogroms against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938, known as “Kristallnacht.”

  18. Sauckel Fritz

    27/10/1894

    16/10/1946

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in Thüringen (since 1927),General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) 1942/1945. Organized the systematic enslavement of millions of foreign citizens.

  19. Peshev Dimitar

    • Pešev, Dimit''r 1894-1973
    • Peshev, Dimitar, 1894-1973
    • Пешев, Димитър 1894-1973
    • Pešev, Dimitǎr, 1894-1973
    • Peshev, Dimitur, 1894-1973
    • ...

    25/06/1894

    20/02/1973

    Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice during World War II. Prevented deportations of Jews from Bulgaria

  20. Born, Friedrich

    10/06/1903

    14/01/1963

    Chief Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross of Switzerland in Budapest (Hungary) between May 1944 and March 1945. During the period from May 1944 to January 1945, Born issued thousands of Red Cross letters of protection (Schutzbriefe) to Jews. He put over 60 Jewish institutions under Red Cross protection and housed over 7,000 Jewish children and orphans. He worked closely with the other neutral diplomatic legations, and set up dozens of Red Cross protected houses. In 1987, Born was designated as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem (Israel).