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  1. Kállay Miklós

    23/01/1887

    14/01/1967

    Hungarian politician. Prime Minister of Hungary between March 9, 1942 and March 22, 1944. Kállay unsuccessfully attempted to extricate Hungary from the German alliance. After the German occupation of Hungary in March, 1944 he was forced into hiding, subsequently taken prisoner, being held at the concentration camp of Dachau and, later, Mauthausen.

  2. Kaltenbrunner Ernst

    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1903-1946
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1902-1946

    04/10/1903

    16/10/1946

    Head of the SS and police in Austria. Since 01.01.1943, head of RSHA and of Sipo and SD. Sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

  3. Kapel Shmuel René

    • Kapel, René Samuel
    • Kapel, Shmuel René
    • Ḳapel, Shemuʾel Reneh
    • Kapel, Samuel René
    • קפל, שמואל רנה
    • ...

    1907

    1994

    French Rabbi during WWII, one of the chaplains for the internment camps in South France. Holocaust survivor, France. Israeli Ambassador to Greece and Latin American countries.

  4. Kaplan Jacob

    • Kaplan, Jacob, 1895-1994
    • Kaplan.
    • קפלן, יעקב 1895-1994
    • Kaplan, Jacob

    1895

    1994

    Rabbi, after the war Chief Rabbi of Paris (1950 - 1955) and later Chief Rabbi of France (1955 - 1981).

  5. Kaplan Joseph

    1913

    1943

    Resistance fighter.

  6. Karski Jan

    • Karski, Jan, 1914-2000
    • Kozielewski-Karski, Jan, 1914-2000
    • Witold 1914-2000 Pseudonym
    • Kozielewski, Jan 1914-2000 Wirklicher Name
    • コジェレフスキ, ヤン
    • ...

    24/06/1914

    13/07/2000

    Resistance fighter. Member of the Polish underground, courier to the Polish Government-in-exile, slipped twice into the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and subsequently made his way to London and the US to report on the deplorable conditions he witnessed. Righteous gentile.

  7. Rudolf Kasztner

    • Rezső Kasztner

    1906-1957

    Rudolf Kasztner, lawyer, journalist, Zionist activist. Kasztner’s name is associated with several rescue operations during the Holocaust. In 1942, he helped found the Relief and Rescue Committee (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) of Budapest, a clandestine group that smuggled Jews from Slovakia and Poland to Hungary. Kasztner brought copies of the so-called Auschwitz Protocols from Slovakia to Hungary at the end of April 1944. In the summer of 1944 Kasztner attempted a rescue operation that became known as the Kasztner Train. After Kasztner's immigration t...

  8. Katzenelson Itzhak

    • יצחק יחיאל קצנלסון
    • Icchak Kacenelson
    • Ytzhak Yehiel Katzenelson

    1886

    1944

    Jewish teacher, poet, dramatist. Participated in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  9. Katzmann Friedrich Fritz

    06/05/1906

    19/09/1957

    SS-Gruppenführer. SSPF (SS- und Polizeiführer) of Distrikt Radom (November 1939 - Juli 1941); SS- und Polizeiführer von Galizien (1941 - April 1943); Head of SS-Oberabschnitt Weichsel/Danzig-Westpreußen (April 1943 - 8 May 1945).

  10. Keitel Wilhelm

    22/09/1882

    16/10/1946

    Head of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the supreme command of the German army (since 04 Feb 1938).

  11. Killinger Manfred von

    14/07/1886

    02/09/1944

    SA-Obergruppenführer. Member of the NSDAP since 1927, 1932 Inspekteur (Chief of Staff) of the SA, 1933 Ministerpräsident of Saxony, 1935 Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office), member of the Volksgerichtshof (Nazi "People's Court"). 1936 Generalkonsul (consul general) in San Francisco, summer 1939 Gesandter (envoy) in Pressburg (Bratislava), 1941-1944 responsible for "Judenangelegenheiten" ("Jewish affairs"). K. commited suicide when the Red Army marched into Bucharest.

  12. 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.

  13. Klarsfeld Beate

    • Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939-....
    • Klarsfeld, Beate
    • קלארספלד, ביאטה, ־1939

    13/02/1939

    Journalist. Nazi hunter.

  14. Klarsfeld Serge

    • Klarsfeld, Serge, 1935-....
    • Klarsfeld, Serge

    17/09/1935

    Nazi hunter.

  15. Klein Samy

    25/01/1915

    07/07/1944

    Rabbi and French resistance.

  16. Klingelhöfer Woldemar

    • Klingelhöfer, Woldemar

    04/04/1900

    SS-Sturmbannführer. 1939 SS/SD, June 1941 Sonderkommando 7b, July 1941 "Vorkommando Moskau", Sonderkommando of Einsatzgruppe B, Sept 1941 part of the group of commanders of Einsatzgruppe B. Sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, released in Landsberg 12 Dec 1956.

  17. Klopfer Gerhard

    • Klopfer, Gerhard, 1905-1987
    • Klopfer, Gerhard

    18/02/1905

    29/01/1987

    Staatssekretär, Deputy of Bormann in the Polizeikanzlei (Nov 1942).

  18. Knochen Helmut

    • Knochen, Helmut
    • Knochen, Helmuth 1910-2003
    • Knochen, Helmut, 1910-2003

    14/03/1910

    Head (Befehlshaber) of the Sipo and SD in France.

  19. Koch Erich

    • Koch, Erich, 1896-1986
    • Koch, Erich
    • Koch, Erich. (1896-1959).

    19/06/1896

    12/11/1986

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in East-Prussia, 1941 appointed Reichskommissar of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine and also 1941 bis 1945 Chef der Zivilverwaltung of the Bezirk Bialystok in occupied Poland.

  20. Koch Karl Otto

    • Koch, Karl-Otto
    • Koch, Karl 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto 1897-1945
    • Koch, Karl Otto, 1897-1945

    02/08/1897

    05/04/1945

    KZ-Kommandant, SS-Standartenführer. Since 1935 head of the Wachtrupp of Esterwegen concentration camp, commander (Kommandant) of Columbiahaus in Berlin, since April 1936 commander of Esterwegen concentration camp. Since Aug 1, 1937 commander of Buchenwald, January to August 1942 commander of Lublin-Majdanek death camp.