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  1. 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).

  2. Hirsch Otto

    • Hirsch, Otto
    • Hirsch, Otto, 1885-1941

    1885

    1941

    Jewish lawyer. Chairman of the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden" and later of the "Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland".

  3. Hirschler Rene

    • Hirschler, René

    1905

    1944

    Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg who engaged in welfare activities in southern France during WWII. General Chaplain (Aumonier general) for the internment camps, deported to Auschwitz in 1944.

  4. Hitler Adolf

    • Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
    • Hitler.
    • Hitler, Adolph, 1889-1945
    • Khitker, Adolf, 1889-1945
    • Hitler, Adolf
    • ...

    20/04/1889

    30/04/1945

    Führer and Reichskanzler, since 04.02.1938 Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht.

  5. 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.

  6. Höß Rudolf

    • Höß, Rudolf, 1900-1947
    • Höess, Rudolf
    • Höss, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand.
    • Gëss, Rudol'f.
    • Höss.
    • ...

    25/11/1900

    16/04/1947

    Commander (Kommandant) of Auschwitz.

  7. Hull Cordell

    • Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
    • ハル, コーデル
    • Hull, Cordell

    02/10/1871

    1955

    United States secretary of state from 1933 to 1944. Had limited information about the persecution of the Jews in Germany but declined to intercede in what he regarded as Germany's internal affair. Hull opposed any relaxation of American immigration regulations during the war. Laid the groundwork for a postwar United nations.

  8. Hunsche Otto

    • Hunsche, Otto 1912-

    15/09/1911

    Regierungsrat in RSHA. A member of Eichmann's referat IV B 4b in the RSHA. In 1944 participated in Sonderkommando Eichmann which was responsible for the concentration and deportation of the Jews of Hungary.

  9. Iakova Violeta

    Jewish partisan in Bulgaria, assassinated General Lukov.

  10. Imrédy Béla

    • Imrédy, Béla, 1891-1946
    • Imredy, Bela

    29/12/1891

    28/02/1946

    Hungarian economist and politician, the Minister of Finance under the Gömbös Cabinet (1932-36), and the President of the Hungarian National Bank. Under Prime Minister Darányi he was Minister of Economics. From May 14, 1938, to February 14, 1939, he was Prime Minister. He founded the Party of Hungarian Renewal (Magyar Megújulás Pártja) in 1940. The first anti-Jewish law was passed under and the second was introduced by his government. He resigned when it was suggested that he had Jewish ancestors; the main reason for his downfall, however, was that his politics was incompatible with Horthy’s...

  11. Ionchev Slavcho

    Inspector at KEV and special representative, Kavala, Bulgaria.

  12. Jäger Karl

    • Jäger, Karl 1888-1959
    • Jaeger, Karl

    20/09/1888

    22/06/1959

    SS-Standartenführer. Head of the SD-Abschnitt Münster; Commander of Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania; Chief of police (Polizeipräsident) in Reichenberg (Sudetenland).

  13. Jarblum Marc

    • Jarblum, Marc, 1887-1972
    • יארבלום, מרדכי
    • יארבלום, מ.
    • Jarblum, Mordʹkhai, 1887-1972
    • Jarblum, M.
    • ...

    1887

    1972

    Socialist president of the Zionist Organization of France and head of the Fédération des Sociétés juives de France (FSJF), one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in rance, refuged in Geneve, Switzerland, in 1943.

  14. Jardin Jean

    1904

    1976

    Politician. Senior official in the Vichy Government, director of Pierre Laval's cabinet, 1942 - 1943.

  15. 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.

  16. Jost Heinz

    09/07/1904

    12/11/1964

    SS-Brigadeführer (1939), Generalmajor of the Police. Head of RSHA-Amt VI (SD Ausland); March - September 1942 Commander of Einsatzgruppe A; afterwards Chef (head) of the Zivilverwaltung (civil administration) of the Regierungsbezirk (governmental district) Zichenau.

  17. 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.

  18. Kahn Franz

    1895

    1944

    Zionist leader in Czechoslovakia, director of the bureau of the Zionist Congress, organised most Zionist Congresses between the wars. Was deported from Terezin ghetto camp to Auschwitz where he was killed.

  19. Kaindl Anton

    • Kaindl, Anton, 1902-
    • Kaindl, Anton

    14/07/1902

    1948

    SS-Standartenführer. Commander (Lagerkommandant) of Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  20. Kalitzin Iaroslav

    KEV raider.