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  1. Curierul Israelit

    From 25/12/1906 to 25/03/1945

    Weekly Romanian newspaper founded in Bucharest on 25 December 1906 by I. Negureanu and M. Schweig. Curierul Israelit (The Israelite Courier) was issued with frequent interruptions until 25 March 1945; Schweig eventually appeared on its masthead as owner and director. The publication carried the subtitle “Organ septemânal pentru apărarea intereselor evreieşti” (Weekly Organ for the Defense of Jewish Interests); in 1944 this slogan was altered to “Organ al Uniunii Evreilor Români” (Organ of the Union of Romanian Jews). Curierul Israelit tried to expose antisemitism and, in the platform publis...

  2. Lavoslav Schick

    • Lavoslav Šik

    Lavoslav Schick (Šik) was a Croatian/Yugoslav Zionist, Judaist, journalist and a lawyer. He was born on the 27th of November 1881 in Vienna. After the death of his father, his mother married again and moved with his new husband and her two sons, Lavoslav (Leo) and Otto, in 1891 to Zagreb (Croatia) – then part of the Habsburg Empire. Schick studied Law in Zagreb, Vienna and Budapest and worked as a journalist. Already at the end of the 19th century he affirmed himself as a Zionist. He organized youth meetings, supported the Association of the South Slav Academics Bar Giora, founded 1902 in V...

  3. Dvorzetsky Mark Meir

    • Dvorjetski, Mark 1908-1975
    • Dbwrzeṣqiy Marq 1908-1975
    • Dvorjetski, Marc, 1908-1975
    • דבורזצקי מרק 1908-1975
    • Dvorzetsky, Mark Meir 1908-1975
    • ...

    1908

    1975

    Doctor, worked as a doctor in the Vilnius ghetto. Attempt to join the partisans failed. Deported from the ghetto to a labour camp in Estonia. Testified at Eichmann trial.

  4. Bibelforscher

    • Jehovah's Witnesses

    1870s/present

    Founded in the United States in the 1870s, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization sent missionaries to Germany to seek converts in the 1890s. By the early 1930s, only 20,000 (of a total population of 65 million) Germans were Jehovah's Witnesses, usually known at the time as "International Bible Students". Even before 1933, despite their small numbers, door-to-door preaching and the identification of Jehovah's Witnesses as heretics by the mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches made them few friends. Individual German states and local authorities periodically sought to limit the group's pr...

  5. Chaim Pazner

    • חיים פזנר
    • Chaim Pozner

    1899-1981

    Chaim Pazner was born in Kowal, Poland, 04 January 1899. In his youth he was active in the Hechalutz movement in the Wloclawek area in Poland, and he served as Vice-Principal of the Hebrew High School in Wloclawek. He was the director of the Committee of Assistance to Polish Refugees in Danzig, 1920-1922. He also served as the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Association (JTA) in Danzig, 1921-1923. He was one of the leaders of the League for Working Eretz Israel in Wloclawek, and he was elected as a representative to the 12th Zionist Congress in Karlsbad and to other Zionist convent...

  6. Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

    • יד ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה
    • Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah

    From 1953 to the present

    In 1953, the Israeli Knesset enacted the Yad Vashem Law, which determined that among its other missions, the task of Yad Vashem is “to collect, examine and publish testimony of the disaster and the heroism it called forth…” Indeed, efforts to document the Holocaust had begun long before the passage of the law. From the Nazi rise to power in Germany, and throughout World War II, there were those who documented the events as they were taking place, often under the harshest conditions. Immediately after the war, centers for documentation and the collection of testimonies were established in ma...

  7. Sutzkever Abraham

    • Sutzkever, Abraham, 1913-2010
    • Suckewer, A.
    • Suckewer, Abraham.
    • Suckiewer, Abraham.
    • Suckewer, Abraham, 1913-2010
    • ...

    15/07/1913

    20/01/2010

    Acclaimed Yiddish poet and partisan fighter.

  8. Blum Leon

    • Blum, Léon, 1872-1950
    • Blum, Leʾon, 1872-1950
    • בלום, ליאון, 1872־1950
    • בלום, ליאון
    • בלום, לאיון
    • ...

    09/04/1872

    30/03/1950

    French statesman. First Jew and first Socialist to be premier of France (05.06.1936-19.06.1937 and 13.03.-10.04.1938), opposed granting absolute powers to Petain. Arrested on Petain's orders. Riom Trials (1942). Turned over to the Germans in March 1943. Liberated with the Niederdorf group.

  9. Československá vláda v exilu

    • Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile
    • Československá exilová vláda
      1. 1940 - 5. 4. 1945

    The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile (known also as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) was accepted by the British Government after the Nazi occupation of France in 1940. It continued in the political effort of the former Czechoslovak official authority known as the Czech National Liberation Committee (set up in France in 1939) to reverse the Munich Agreement and the subsequent German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and to return the Republic to its 1937 boundaries. The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile consisted of the President, the Goverment and the State Council (which represent...

  10. Miliband, Ralph

    • ミリバンド, ラルフ
    • Milibend, Ralph 1924-1994
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-
    • Miliband, Ralph, 1924-1994
    • Milibend, Ral'f.
    • ...

    Ralph Miliband, the political scientist and socialist, was born in Belgium of Jewish parents on 7 January 1924. He and his father fled to London in 1940 as the German army was invading Belgium. Here he learned English and began to study at the London School of Economics (then exiled in Cambridge). After serving in the Royal Navy for three years he returned to his studies at LSE, graduated with first class honours, and then took a Ph.D. His first teaching post was at Roosevelt College, Chicago, but he then became a lecturer at LSE in 1949 until 1972, when he was appointed Professor of Politi...

  11. Siegfried Jaegendorf

    Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. Afterwards, he was appointed General Manager of Siemens in Bucharest, Romania. From there, he returned to Vienna where he served as Engi...

  12. Hans Helm

    The Bavarian Hans Helm began his police career in Munich. Born in 1909 in a poor family, and has not completed the study of philosophy, and instead he got a job at the Munich police. He proved to be "an eager, disciplined and capable officer" and promoted as a forensic officer. As of 1937 he started working for the Gestapo. Among other activities within the scope of work of the Gestapo, Helm supervised and processed Ustasha intelligence exiles in Germany. At the same time he maintained official contacts with the Yugoslav police, who searched for the Ustashe as members of a terrorist organiz...

  13. Гроссман Василий Семенович

    • Grossman Vasily Semyonovich

    Василий Семенович Гроссман, настоящее имя Иосиф Соломонович Гроссман (1905 - 1964) - писатель, журналист, военный корреспондент. Родился в Бердичеве в еврейской семье. Несколько детских лет провел в Швейцарии. Получил образование в Киевском реальном училище, Киевском высшем институте народного образования, химическом отделении физико-математического факультета 1-го Московского государственного университета, однако научной карьере предпочел занятия литературой. В 1934 г. впервые был опубликован рассказ "В городе Бердичеве", посвященный Гражданской войне. В годы Великой Отечественной войны ра...

  14. Recha Freier

    Recha Freier was born in Norden, in the northwestern part of Germany, in 1892. On completion of her University Language studies, she worked as a teacher and folklore researcher. In 1932 she conceived of the idea of organizing the sending of Jewish youth to Eretz Israel for education in the kibbutzim. She gathered funds for this purpose and saw her idea become a reality when the first group of Jewish youth left Berlin in late 1932. The World Jewish Congress approved the idea in 1933, however initially Recha Freier had to raise the funds for the project herself. in 1935, Recha Freier proposed...

  15. Sąd Grodzki w Sobolewie

    Na terenie GG funkcjonowały, podobnie jak na ziemiach włączonych do Rzeszy, wojskowe sądy polowe i wojskowe sądy doraźne. Od 26X1939r. wprowadzono w GG nowy ustrój sądownictwa, ustalający podział na sądownictwo niemieckie i polskie.( Dziennik Rozporządzeń Generalnego Gubernatora dla okupowanych polskich obszarów,1939r., Rozporządzenie o odbudowie wymiaru sprawiedliwości w GG z dn. 26X1939r.). Obywatele narodowości niemieckiej podlegali w całości kompetencji sądów niemieckich. Polacy, Ukraińcy i Żydzi podlegali kompetencji sądów niemieckich w zakresie działalności skierowanej przeciwko bezpi...

  16. Gruenbaum Yizhak

    • Gruenbaum, Isaak Icek, 1879-1970
    • Grinboym, Yitsḥaḳ, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Isaac, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Itzhak, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Yiẓḥak 1879-1970
    • ...

    1879

    1970

    Zionist.

  17. Erich Kulka

    Erich Schon, born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. A history of the arrests of Erich Kulka begins in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942, when he was transferred to Auschwitz. Kulka was given the number 73043 an...

  18. Sicherheitsdienst

    • Security Service
    • SD

    Founded in 1931

    The Sicherheitsdienst, an intelligence and surveillance organization, was established in 1931 under Reinhard Heydrich. Among its major tasks were monitoring real or imagined enemies of national socialism and reporting on the state of opinion among the German public. As chief of the Sicherheitsdienst as well as of the Sicherheitspolizei, Reinhard Heydrich merged the two organizations, establishing the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in September 1939.

  19. Gebirtig Mordechai

    • Gʿebiyrṭiyg, Mordekay, 1877-1942
    • Guebirtig, Mordje, 1877-1942
    • Gebirtig, Mordechaj, 1877-1942
    • געבירטיג, מרדכי, 1877־1942
    • Gebirtig, Mordechai, 1877-1942
    • ...

    1877

    June 1942

    Yiddish poet and songwriter, wrote what became the anthem of Cracow's Jewish underground resistance: Undzer shtetl brent (Our town is burning), shot and killed by German soldiers.

  20. Bielski Tuvia

    • טוביה בילסקי
    • Tuvia Bielski

    Tuvia Bielski - Jewish partisan commander. Was born in 1906, in Stankiewicze, to family of farmers. At the age of seventeen he joined the Zionist pioneering movement, and in 1928 he was mobilized into the Polish army. He married and settled in the village of Subotnik where he opened a textile store. In September 1939 the area was annexed to the Soviet Union. With the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Bielski was mobilized. When the Germans invaded the region he fled to the forest, and from there to his village of birth. After his parents and other members of their family...