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  1. Kramer Josef

    • Kramer, Josef, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph, 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Joseph 1906-1945
    • Kramer, Josef

    10/11/1906

    13/12/1945

    KZ-Kommandant and SS-Hauptsturmführer. Since 1934 in Dachau, 1937/1938 in Sachsenhausen, 1939 in Mauthausen, May 1940 in Auschwitz, April 1941 Schutzhaftlagerführer , Oct 1942 Kommandant in Natzweiler, since May 1944 Kommandant in Auschwitz-Birkenau, since 1 Dec 1944 in Bergen-Belsen. Sentenced to death in Belsen Trial, executed.

  2. Stepinac Alojzije

    • Stepinac, Aloysius
    • Stepinac, Alojzije
    • Stepinac, Luigi.
    • Stepinec, Aloysius
    • Stepinac, Luis
    • ...

    08/05/1898

    10/02/1960

    Archbishop of Zaghreb (1937). Sentenced to 16 years of forced labour after having stated that the church would not enhance relations with the state before state oppression seized.

  3. Goebbels Joseph

    • Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945
    • Goebbels, Paul Joseph, 1897-1945
    • Goebbels, Josef, 1897-1945
    • Gkaimpels, Paoul Giozeph, 1897-1945
    • Gebbelʹs, Ĭosef 1897-1945
    • ...

    29/10/1897

    01/05/1945

    Reichsmininster for Volksaufklärung and Propaganda, Gauleiter of Berlin, one of the people closest to Hitler.

  4. Weissmandel Michael Dov

    • Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 1904?-1957
    • וייסמנדל, רחמ״ד
    • וויסמאנדל, מיכאל דוב
    • ווייסמאנדל, מיכאל בער, ?1904־1957
    • ווייסמאנדל, חיים מיכאל דוב, 1957־?1904
    • ...

    1903

    1956

    Rabbi in Slovakia. Helped halt the deportation of Slovakian Jews for two years, through the organisation Working Group, who bribed German and Slovakian officials. Created the Europa Plan the rescue European Jews Jews in hte same way. In 1944 broadcast the so called Auschwitz Protocols about the mass exterminations. Escaped from Auschwitz, settled in the United States. \

  5. Kurt Ball-Kaduri

    • יעקב קורט בל-כדורי

    Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From his own public activities in Germany, he knew very well that many activities were conducted without any documentation, especially after the Nazi r...

  6. Alter Avraham Mordechai

    • Alter, Abraham Mordecai, 1866-1948
    • ʾAlṭer, ʾAvraham Mordeḵay, 1866-1948
    • Alter, Abraham Mordechai, 1866-1948
    • ʾAdumur mi-Gur, 1866-1948
    • Alter, Abraham Mordechaj (1866-1948).
    • ...

    1865

    03/06/1948

    Rabbi. Escaped to Palestine in 1940.

  7. Weizsäcker Ernst Baron Von

    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von (1882-1951).
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 1882-1951
    • Von Weizsäcker, Ernst, 1882-1951
    • Weizsäcker, Ernst Heinrich, Freiherr von, 1882-1951
    • ...

    12/05/1882

    04/08/1951

    1938-1943, State Secretary at the Foreign Office 1943-1945 German Ambassador to the Holy See.

  8. Bach-Zelewski Erich von dem

    • Bach, Erich ˜von demœ 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zelewski, Erich von dem Bach-, 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zalewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zalewski, Erich von dem Bach- 1899-1972
    • ...

    01/03/1899

    08/03/1972

    SS-Obergruppenführer , General der Polizei (General of police) (1944). 1938 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Silesia, 1941 HSSPF Russland-Mitte, head of Einsatzgruppe B. Since 21 June 1943 Bevollmächtigter des Reichsführer-SS zur Bandenbekämpfung (murder of Jews and partisans). 1944 suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. End of 1944/1945 Stabschef des Befehlshabers des Ersatzheeres. In the Nuremberg Trials crown witness for the prosecution. Sentenced to life for the murder of three communists in 1961.

  9. Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung von NS-Verbrechen Ludwigsburg

    • Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen Ludwigsburg

    Concerned about the government’s ability to bring charges against suspected war criminal, the Bundesrepublik Deutschland created the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung von NS-Verbrechen Ludwigsburg. The Zentrale Stelle’s staff of lawyers and judges would investigate Nazi-era crimes and then turn its material over to individual German states for prosecution. The only crimes it could investigate were those that committed outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and only those that could be prosecuted under German law. It could not deal with war crimes per se, though in...

  10. Adolf Abraham Berman

    • אדולף אברהם ברמן
    • Bermann, Adolf Abraham

    17/10/1906

    03/02/1978

    Psychologist, Zionist activist in the Warsaw ghetto underground and one of the leaders of ZEGOTA. Witness in Eichmann trial.

  11. Edelstein Jacob

    • Edelstein, Jakob, 1903-1944
    • Edelstein, Jakob
    • Edelstein, Jacob, -1944
    • אדלשטיין, יעקב.
    • Edelstein, Jakob, -1944
    • ...

    1903

    1944

    Zionist leader in Czechoslovakia. Chairman of the Ältestenrat in Terezín.

  12. Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce

    • Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland
    • GKBZNP

    1946/1991

    In early 1946, the Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej (Provisional Government of National Unity) established the Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce to investigate crimes committed against Polish citizens. The investigations included collecting documents and other evidence as well as interviewing witnesses and survivors of such crimes. In 1991, Poland’s new democratic government transformed the GKBZNP into the Główna Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Main Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation), which is part of the Instytut P...

  13. War Refugee Board

    • WRB

    Founded in 1944-01-22

    The War Refugee Board was an ad hoc agency created on 1944-01-22 by Executive Order 9417. Its purpose was to circumvent obstruction by the U.S. State Department and rescue Jews. The impetus for the Board came from Josiah DuBois, John Pehle and Randolph Paul. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been lobbied by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morganthau Jr. to create the Board. This proposal was opposed by Secretary of war Henry Louis Stimson and secretary of State Cordell Hull. In addition, rescue legislation was pending in the Senate, crafted by the Bergson Group. The Board was funded l...

  14. Levy Family from Essen

    Dr. Ernst Levy (b.1872) was the eldest son of physician Dr. Hermann Levy (b. 1838) and his wife Emma, née Hirschland (b. 1847). Dr. Ernst Levy and his wife, the former Martha Ruthenburg (b. 1878) lived in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Levy was a general practioner and researcher. They had four children, Hermann (b. 1906), Rudolf (b. 1908), Hans (b. 1911) and Eva (b. 1914). A year after the rise of nazism, Hermann Levy, a lawyer by training, went to study a new career in Paris, France, since he was banned from practicing his profession in Germany. At the end of 1935 he emigrated to Argentina, an...

  15. Markish Peretz

    • Markish, Peretz, 1895-1952
    • Marḳish, Perets 1895-1952
    • Markisza, P., 1895-1952
    • Markisch, Peretz, 1895-1952
    • Markiš, Perec Davidovič, 1895-1952
    • ...

    1895

    1952

    Yiddish writer and poet; member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and of the editorial board of its journal, Eynikayt.

  16. Heydrich Reinhard

    • Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942
    • Geĭdrikh, Reĭngard 1904-1942
    • הידריך, רינהרד
    • Heydrich, Reinhard
    • Heydrich, R. (Reinhard), 1904-1942
    • ...

    07/03/1904

    04/06/1942

    Founder of the SD, 1936 head of the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo), 1939 Head of the RSHA, 1941 appointed by Hermann Göring to prepare a "solution to the Jewish question". Covened the Wannsee conference. 1941 appointed Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, and killed 1942 by the Czech resistance movement.

  17. Tenenbaum Mordekhai

    • Tenenbaum, Mordecai, 1916-1943
    • Ṭenenboim-Ṭamarof, Mordekhai 1916-1943
    • Ṭamarof, Mordekhai Ṭenenboim 1916-1943
    • Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, Mordekhai, 1916-1943
    • Tamaroff, Mordecai, 1916-1943
    • ...

    1916

    1943

    Organised resistance in Bialystok gehtto. Zionist.

  18. Polska Partia Robotnicza

    • Polish Workers’ Party
    • PPR

    1942-01-05/1948

    Polish communists were transferred from USSR to Poland to connect polish communistics parties. The Polska Partia Robotnicza was subordinated to soviet communist party and controlled by the Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich Dieł (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs). The leaders were: W. Gomulka, B. Bierut. It headed Gwardia Ludowa (Polish People’s Army), Armia Ludowa (People’s Army). When Red Army came to Poland, PPR let Sovietization of the country through terror. It merged with the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party) into Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (Poli...

  19. Nyilaskeresztes Párt - Hungarista Mozgalom

    • Arrow Cross Party - Hungarist Movement
    • Arrow Cross

    (1935) 1939-1945

    Arrow Cross Party was the most popular right-wing extremist movement in Hungary before and during WWII. The party was founded in 1935 under the name of Party of National Will. Its leader, former officer of the General Staff, Ferenc Szálasi was imprisoned (1938-1940) and his party dissolved several times, however, managed to return to political life. In the last pre-war elections in 1939 the Arrow Cross gained 29 seats, making it the second largest party in Parliament. The party was re-named to Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement in 1942. After Regent Miklós Horthy’s attempt to extricate fr...

  20. Yad Vashem archives

    • ארכיון יד ושם
    • YV archives

    From 1953 to the present

    The Yad Vashem Archives holds various types of materials related to the Holocaust period, materials related to the life of the Jews in Europe between WWI and WWII and materials related to the life of the survivors after the Holocaust. Among these materials, the Yad Vashem Archives holds individual documents such as letters, diaries, photos, films, testimonies and personal documents which had been donated to the Archives by individuals. Many of these documents are original. Other types of documents available in the archives are those which were created by Jewish organizations before, during ...