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  1. Arhiv Republike Srpske

    • Archives of the Republic of Srpska
    • Arhiv Bosanske Krajine

    The Archives of the City of Banja Luka was established by the Decision of the People's Committee of the City of Banja Luka, number 4735 dated 20 April, 1953. According to the approval of the Executive Council of the National Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, no. 1719-14 dated 30 May, 1956, the Archives of the City of Banja Luka became County Archives, authorized for the areas of the municipalities of Banja Luka and Prijedor. The establisher's rights were taken over by the People's Committee of the County Banja Luka (Decision no. 2170 dated 29 June, 1956) with the consent of the People's C...

  2. Aleksandar Licht

    Dr. Aleksandar Licht (1884−1948) was an Croatian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia. Licht was born in village Sokolovac, near Koprivnica to a Croatian Jewish family. As a child he moved with his family to Zagreb. Licht was educated in Zagreb where he finished elementary and high school. He graduated as a lawyer at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. In 1909 he was promoted to a Doctor of law at the University of Zagreb. In 1913 he opened a law firm in Zagreb, but in 1914 he was drafted to a Austro-Hungarian Army. Upon completing military service, Licht retu...

  3. Sheptytsky Andrei

    • Šeptic'kij, Andrej (1865-1944).
    • Szeptycki, Roman Aleksander.
    • Sheptytsʹkyĭ, Andriĭ, 1865-1944
    • Sheptytsky, Andrei
    • Шептицький, Андрей, 1865-1944
    • ...

    1865

    1944

    Head of the Greek Catholic church in Southeast Poland. Leader of the Ukranian nationalist movement in Poland during WWII.

  4. Sąd Grodzki w Łowiczu

    Z chwilą zakończenia II wojny światowej w 1945 roku Sąd Grodzki w Łowiczu podjął działalność w nowych warunkach ustrojowych na podstawie dekretu z dnia 14 marca 1945r. Dekret ten w zasadzie utrzymywał w mocy prawo o ustroju sądów powszechnych z dnia 6 lutego 1928 roku . Dekret zwracał szczególną uwagę na zachowanie osoby sędziego, który powinien w służbie i poza służbą strzec powagi Sądu. Nie wolno mu także było brać udziału w wystąpieniach, które mogłyby osłabić zaufanie do jego bezstronności, wierności do ustroju czy władz demokratycznego Państwa Polskiego. Sąd grodzki był najniższym szcz...

  5. 16-я 'Литовская' стрелковая дивизия

    • 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
    • Lietuviškoji 16-oji Raudonosios Armijos divizija

    The 16th Rifle Division was a formation in the Red Army created during the Second World War. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Novgorod in October 1939. In the end of 1941 reformed and given the title 'Lithuanian', the division participated in several battles against Nazi Germany, including Kursk, Belarus, and the Baltic. It was disbanded at the end of the war, although it was briefly revived in 1955 before being disbanded once more. When the 16th Division was reformed after its destruction, it w...

  6. Laura Papo - Bohoreta

    Laura Papo was born in 1891 and died in 1942.

    Laura Papo Bohoreta was born in Sarajevo on 15 March 1891, into the poor Jewish family of Juda and Esther Levi, the first of their seven children. Juda Levi was a trader, but as he did not have success in Sarajevo, he relocated to Istanbul in 1900 with his family. In Turkey, they changed the name of Luna into a more modern and international one - Laura. For eight years in Istanbul, Laura attended the International French School for Jews "Alliance Israélite Française". After eight years, Levi's family returned to Sarajevo, just as poor as before, only with more children. In order to help her...

  7. Arhiv Tuzlanskog kantona

    • Tuzla County Archives
    • Archive of Tuzla Canton

    The establishment of the Archives in Tuzla and the establishment of archival activities in the wider Tuzla area was carried out only after the Second World War. Archive of Tuzla was founded by the City People's Committee in Tuzla on July 1, 1954, in accordance with the recommendation of the Executive Council of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NR BiH) No. 3768/53 of 24 January 1954. Archive of Tuzla was founded as Archive of Tuzla town, and very started to supervise the region of northeast Bosnia which,since 1962, included 18 or 19 municipalities. Regional Archive jurisdicti...

  8. Michal Weichert

    Michal Weichert was born in Podhajce, eastern Galicia, Poland, 1890. He attended Polish schools, earned a degree in law at the University of Vienna, and also attended the Theater Arts Academy in Berlin. Upon his return to Poland, he established the Young Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He served as a Yiddish theater critic and was a prominent figure in the cultural life of the Jews of Poland during the 1920s and 1930s. At the same time, he also served as a legal advisor for charitable institutions and Jewish cultural organizations in Poland, and eventually he became a contact person with the Joi...

  9. Schneersohn Isaac

    • Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Shneursohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Schneerson, Yossef Yitzchok, 1880-1950
    • Schneerson, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950
    • Schneersohn, Yosef Yitzchok, 1880-1950
    • ...

    1969

    Established Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation.

  10. Ehrenburg Ilya Grigoryevich

    • Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡, 1891-1967
    • Ehrenburg, Ilya, 1891-1967
    • Ehrenbourg, Ilya, 1891-1967
    • Ehrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡ Grigorʹevich, 1891-1967
    • Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡ Grigorʹevich, 1891-1967
    • ...

    27/01/1891

    01/09/1967

    Jewish Soviet poet and journalist of WWII, member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; worked with Vassily Grossmann, collecting and editing material for Chernaia kniga (Black Book) on the destruction of Jews.

  11. Churchill Winston

    • Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, Уинстон, 1874-1965
    • Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), Sir, 1874-1965
    • Черчилль, 1874-1965
    • Čērčils, Vinstons, 1874-1965
    • ...

    1874

    24/01/1965

    Prime minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955).

  12. Stephen Samuel Wise

    Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the grandson and son of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with excellence at the age of 18, and was ordained as a rabbi in 1893. He served as the rabbi in a number of communities in New York and in Oregon, and was a trail-blazer in the area of interdenominational cooperation in the United States. In 1902 he earned his doctoral degree from Columbia University. Wise began ...

  13. Joseph Kermish

    • Joseph Kermisz

    Dr. Joseph Kermish was born in the town of Zlotniki, in the Tarnopol district, 1907. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and completed his doctoral studies in 1937. He spent the years 1936-1939 preparing a book of bibliographies on the history of Warsaw and the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw, work that was suspended with the outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939, and his draft into the Polish Army. He spent the period of the German occupation, from 1941, in the town of Probuzna, not far from Husiatin. During this period he served as the authorized representative of th...

  14. Dimitrov Georgi

    • Dimitrov, Georgi, 1882-1949
    • Dimitroff, G.
    • Dimitrov, Georgi
    • Dimitrov, Georgi Mihajlov
    • Dimitrow, G. (Georgi)
    • ...

    18/06/1882

    02/07/1949

    Bulgarian communist. After being acquitted as the star defendant at the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933, D. became general secretary of the comintern in 1935. Leader of Bulgarian communists after the Soviet liberation and became prime minister on 06.11.1946.

  15. Blumental Nachman

    • Blumental, Nachman 1905-1983
    • Blumental Naḥman 1905-1983
    • בלומענטאל נחמן 1905-1983
    • בלומנטל נחמן 1905-1983
    • Blwmenṭal Naḥman 1905-1983
    • ...

    1905

    1983

    Co-founder of the Jewish Historical Committee (Żydowska Komisja Historyczna), a Holocaust research body organized in Lublin in August 1944. In December 1944, the commission became an agency of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) and was renamed the Central Jewish Historical Commission (Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna). Director (1947-48) of the successor, the Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny; ŻIH), research institute, archive, library, and museum in Warsaw.

  16. Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps

    • Comité de Nimes
    • CCAC

    Founded in 1940-11

    After 1940-10, the camp activities of the major Jewish welfare agencies were coordinated within the Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance under the leadership of Grand Rabbi René Hirschler. A month later, the Jewish central commission met with various non-Jewish agencies working in the camps, such as Comité inter-mouvements aupres des evacues (CIMADE), the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), the Quakers, various national branches of the Red Cross, the Secours Suisse, the Service social d’aide aux emigrants (SSAE), the Unitarian Service Committee, the Rockefeller Foun...

  17. Hechalutz

    • החלוץ
    • HeHalutz

    Founded in 1905

    Association of Jewish youth whose aim was to train its members to settle on the land in Israel. The original meaning of the Hebrew word is the vanguard that leads the host on its advanceץ The idea of Hechalutz was conceived during the crisis that overtook Russian Jewry in the aftermath of the 1881 pogroms. This awakening was influenced indirectly by the Russian revolutionary movement, which called upon the intelligentsia to "go out to the people." Two of the societies that were formed at this time – *Bilu, which called for settlement in Ereẓ Israel, and *Am Olam, which advocated settlement ...

  18. Demjanjuk John Iwan

    • דמיאניוק, ג'ון, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, Ivan, 1920-2012
    • Demyanyuk, G'ohn, 1920-2012
    • Demjanjuk, Iwan, 1920-2012
    • דמיניוק, ג'ון
    • ...

    03/04/1920

    17/12/2012

    Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced him to death. Demjanjuk appealed the verdict, and in 1993, he was acquitted because...

  19. Υπηρεσία Αναζητήσεων Ελληνικού Ερυθρού Σταυρού

    • Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department
    • Ypiresia Anazitiseon Ellinikou Erithrou Staurou
    • Διεύθυνση Αναζητήσεων του Ελληνικού Ερυθρού Σταυρού
    • Diefthynsi Anazitiseon tou Ellinikou Erythrou Stavrou

    Ever since its foundation, in 1915, until now the Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department has performed very significant task. During its course, it has not only been active in unstable situations, in time of war and peace tracing missing persons, both in Greece and abroad, but also it has facilitated communication between captives, detainees and refugees and their relatives. Goals · Maintain family unity · Restore family links · Maintain communication among family members · Trace the missing persons and inform their relatives The Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department has the largest tracing ...

  20. Grossman Vasilii Semenovich‏

    • Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich, 1905-1964
    • Grossman, Vassili, 1905-1964
    • Grosman, Ṿasili, 1905-1964
    • Гроссман, Василий Семёнович, 1905-1964
    • Grossman, Wassilij, 1905-1964
    • ...

    1905

    1964

    Jewish author; member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; worked with Ilya Ehrenburg, collecting and editing material for Chernaia kniga (Black Book) on the destruction of Jews.