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  1. Bernadotte Folke

    02/01/1895

    17/09/1948

    Swedish official. Worked with the Red Cross in arranging POW exchanges. Vice president of the Swedish Red Cross. Saved thousands of POWs and concentration camp inmates. "During the last months of the war he was approached by Kaltenbrunner and Schellenberg on Himmler's behalf to feel out the Western allies on making some deal to mollify their unconditional surrender policy. Assassinated in Jerusalem by the Stern Gang.

  2. Roosevelt Franklin Delano

    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
    • ルーズヴェルト, フランクリン・D
    • Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, 1882-1945
    • Luosifu, 1882-1945
    • Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1882-1945
    • ...

    30/01/1882

    02/04/1945

    32nd president of the United States (1933-1945)

  3. Zuckerman Yitzhak

    • Zuckerman, Yitzhak, 1915-1981
    • Antek, 1915-1981
    • Cukierman, Icchak, 1915-1981
    • צוקערמאן, יצחק, 1915-1981
    • Zuckerman, Isaac, 1915-1981
    • ...

    13/12/1915

    19/06/1981

    Hero of Jewish armed resistance. One of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  4. Korczak Janusz

    • Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942
    • Goldszmit, Henryk, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorts'aḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • קורצאק, יאנוש, 1878-1942
    • Ḳorṭshaḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
    • ...

    22/07/1878

    1942

    Jewish educator, author, doctor, refused protection from the Judenrat, August 1942 deported from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, together with the 200 children in his care.

  5. Commission Central d’Oeuvres Juives d’Assistance

    • Central Commission of Jewish Relief Associations
    • CCOJA

    Founded in 1940-10-30

    Many central and local Jewish relief organizations were to be found in the unoccupied zone immediately after the exodus and the armistice of 1940-06. The activities of these organizations were not coordinated, nor was there a central organization that could deal with the French Government. That is why on a conference in Marseilles on 1940-10-30 and 1940-10-31 the Commission Central d’Oeuvres Juives d’Assistance was organized. The CCOJA rejected above all the Central Consistory’s claim to represent French Judaism. The CCOJA created the following sub-committees and commissions: 1. Comité d’Ac...

  6. Union Générale des Israélites de France

    • General Union of the Israelites of France
    • UGIF

    Founded in 1941-11-29

    In 1941-11-29 a Vichy Law established the Union Générale des Israélites de France, a national Jewish representation, with separate branches in the northern and southern zones. Among the various reasons given by Vichy for the establishment of this representation was the increased poverty resulting from diverse anti-Jewish measurements. At any rate this was advanced as one of the reasons by those Jews who chose to lead this Vichy creation. Indeed the problem was serious. The suffering Jewish population could only call on the network of immigrant organizations, operating semi-legally or illega...

  7. Benjamin Arditti

    • בנימין ארדיטי

    Benjamin Arditti was born in Vienna in 1897. He lived in Sofia (except for two years during World War II) from 1916-1949. He was one of the outstanding activists in the Zionist movement in Bulgaria: he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Union in Bulgaria, 1919-1923; he held five terms of office as the representative to the World Zionist Congress; he served as the chairman of the Zionist Organization in Sofia; he was one of the founders of the Revisionist movement in Bulgaria and its chairman from 1925-1935. Arditti was a member of the illegal Committee for the Rescue...

  8. Muzej Jevreja Bosne i Hercegovine - Muzej Sarajevo

    • Jewish Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Museum of Sarajevo

    The Sarajevo Museum is a public institute founded by Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It now consists of the main building, with depots, and five dependencies: Svrzo’s House, the Despić House, the Jewish Museum, the Brusa Bezistan, and the Museum of Sarajevo 1878-1914. The Jewish Museum or Museum of the Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina is housed in the oldest synagogue in Bosnia and Herzegovina, built in 1581. Many experts are of the opinion that this was the finest exhibition space in the whole of ex-Yugoslavia; and indeed, on entering the Synagogue, one steps into a di...

  9. Kiril Patriarch of Bulgaria

    • Kiril, patriarh b''lgarski
    • Akademik Kiril, patriarh b''lgarski
    • Kiril patriarche de Sofia 1901-1971
    • Кирил patriarche de Sofia 1901-1971
    • Kiril Konstantin Markov 1901-1971
    • ...

    1901

    1971

    Patriarch of the Bulgarian orthodox church 1953-1971.

  10. Kaczerginski Shmerke

    • שמריהו קצ'רגינסקי
    • ‏קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע.
    • Kaczerginski, Szmerke
    • Ḳaṭsherginsḳi, Shmerḳe, 1908-1954
    • קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע, 1908-1954
    • ...

    1908

    1954

    Jewish writer and poet, partisan fighter, took an active part in the cultural life and the education of the youth in the Vilnius Ghetto, eminent collector of the Yiddish Shoah song, survivor of Vilnius ghetto.

  11. Российский государственный архив социально-политической истории

    • Russian State Archives of the Socio-Political History
    • Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsyalno-politicheskoy istorii
    • RGASPI
    • РГАСПИ

    State Archives of the Socio Political History was created in October 1991 on the basis of former Central Communist Party Archive. Archive history begins with the formation of the Archive of Russian Social Democratic Movement and its library on emmigration. After the 1917 documents referring to the history of pre 1917 revolutionary movement and revolution itself were collected by the various Soviet archives and research centers. In 1920 these tasks were centralized in the History of the Party Institute, that until 1928 was the branch of the Central Party Committee. This Institution directed ...

  12. Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski

    (April 5, 1866–December 17, 1929) was an Croatian nobleman, industrialist, and philanthropist; he was the younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and a member of the prominent Alexander family of Zagreb. He was a well-known economics expert and published a noted article in the "Bankarstvo" magazine in 1924. Between 1905 and 1910, Alexander was the city representative in the Zagreb City Assembly. In 1909 he became the adviser of Franz Joseph I of Austria. Alexander worked in and was a member of more than 60 associations in Croatia. He was the councillor, vice president ,and honorary presid...

  13. Éclaireurs Israélites de France

    • French Jewish Scouts
    • EIF

    Founded in 1923

    The Éclaireurs Israélites de France was a French Jewish scouting movement, created by Robert Gamzon in 1923, which rescued thousands of Jews in France during the Second World War. Soon after war broke out in 1939-09, the Éclaireurs Israélites de France established several children’s homes in southwest France. After France fell to the German army in mid-1940, the EIF moved south to the unoccupied zone of France while still continuing to function illegally in Paris. Its children’s homes soon began to take in the children of Jews imprisoned in Nazi camps. In 1941 the EIF was forced to join the...

  14. Sąd Grodzki w Garwolinie

    Sąd Grodzki w Garwolinie zaczął funkcjonować pod koniec 1944r. Na podstawie ustawy Krajowej Rady Narodowej z dn. 15VIII1944r. o tymczasowym trybie wydawania dekretów z mocą ustawy, PKWN dekretem z 4XI1944r. postanowił, że do czasu wytyczenia nowych granic, okręgów sądowych na terenie całego państwa, Kierownik Resortu Sprawiedliwości może zarządzić w drodze rozporządzenia tworzenie i znoszenie sądów grodzkich, okręgowych i apelacyjnych, ustalenie nowych siedzib sądów i zmianę granic ich okręgów.( Dz.U.R.P. z 1944r., nr 11, poz.58.Dekret PKWN z 4XI 1944r.)W praktyce sądy najczęściej funkcjono...

  15. Pius 12 Pope

    • Pius XII (papież ; 1876-1958).
    • Pacelli, Eugenio.
    • Pío XII.
    • Pij XII.
    • Pie XII (pape).
    • ...

    02/03/1876

    09/10/1958

    Head of the Roman Catholic Church (1939-58). Controversy around his and the Vatican's "neutrality" during the Holocaust

  16. Horthy Miklós

    • Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Nicolaus von, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Miklós, nagybányai, 1868-1957
    • Nagybányai Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • הורטי, ניקולאוס
    • ...

    18/06/1868

    09/02/1957

    Hungarian military officer and politician, the Regent of Hungary between March 1, 1920, and October 16, 1944. After the coup d'état of the Arrow Cross Party, he was under German house arrest. After the end of the war he settled in Portugal.

  17. Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue

    • Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue, 1850-1937
    • マサリック
    • マサリク, T. G
    • Masaryk, Tomás G., 1850-1937
    • Masaryk, Thomas-Garrigue, 1850-1937
    • ...

    07/03/1850

    14/09/1937

    Founder and first president (1918-35) of Czechoslovakia. Fought Anti-Semitism. Sympathetic to Zionism

  18. The Command of the Lithuanian Partisan Movement

    • Lietuvos partizaninio judėjimo štabas
    • Shtab Litovskogo Partizanskogo dvizhenija

    "In 1941, the Soviet partisan movement in Lithuania began with the actions of a small number of Red Army soldiers left behind enemy lines, much like the beginning of partisan movements in Ukraine and Belarus. The movement grew throughout 1942, and in the summer of that year the Lithuanian Soviet partisan movement began receiving material aid as well as specialists and instructors in guerrilla warfare from Soviet-held territory. On 26 November 1942, the Command of the Lithuanian Partisan Movement (Lietuvos partizaninio judėjimo štabas) was created in Moscow, headed by the First Secretary of ...

  19. HICEM

    Founded in 1927

    HICEM is established in 1927, with the goal to help European Jews emigrate. HICEM was formed with the merger of three Jewish migration associations: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which was based in New York; Jewish Colonization Association, which was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society; and Emigdirect, a migration organization based in Berlin. By the time the Second World War broke out in 1939-09, HICEM had offices all over Europe, South and Central America, and the Far East. Its employees advised and prepared European refugees for emigration, including helping the...

  20. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    13/08/1894

    07/06/1951

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.