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  1. Komoly Ottó

    1892

    1945

    Architect, Zionist leader. During the Holocaust, Komoly was among the most prominent Hungarian Jewish leaders to participate in rescuing the Jews of Hungary. Zionist organisations established the so-called Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) in 1942. Komoly, as president of this organisation, smuggled Jews across the border, assisted refugees in Hungary, and made preparations for the self-defence of the Jewish community. Komoly’s rescue action of Jewish children was his most successful achievement. He worked in this a...

  2. Koppe Wilhelm

    • Koppe, Wilhelm, 1896-1975
    • Koppe, Wilhelm

    15/06/1896

    02/07/1975

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1942), General der Polizei. October 1939 appointed HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer) in the Warthegau. Responsible i.A. for the deportations of Jews from the Lodz / Litzmannstadt Ghetto.

  3. 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.

  4. Koretz Zvi

    • Koretz, Zvi ca. 20.Jh.

    1894

    1945

    Rabbi in Greece. Bergen-Belsen, Terezin, died 3 months after liberation.

  5. Kovner Abba

    • Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987
    • Kovner, Aba.
    • Kovner, Abba
    • Ḳovner, Aba 1918-1987
    • קובנר, אבא
    • ...

    14/03/1918

    25/09/1987

    Underground leader and partisan commander; a leader of the Beriha movement; Hebrew poet and writer. One of the FPO leaders, became its commander in 1943, lead escape of Vilnius ghetto fighters into the forest, commanded Jewish partisan unit in the Rudninkai forest.

  6. Kovpak Sidor

    • Kovpak, S. A. 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sydir Artemovych, 1887-1967
    • Kovpak, Sidor Artemʹevich, 1887-1967
    • Kowpak, A. S.
    • Kovpak, S.
    • ...

    07/06/1887

    11/12/1967

    Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine.

  7. 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.

  8. Krausz Miklós

    01/01/1908

    1985

    Hungarian Jewish Zionist activist. In 1932 he was appointed as the general secretary of the "Mizrahi" and “Hapoel Hamizrahi” organisations in Hungary. In 1934 he was the secretary of the Eretz-Israel Office in Budapest and from 1938 to 1946 its manager. In April 1944, a few weeks after the German invasion of Hungary, all the 7,800 certificates that were not used by Jews, who were deported or exterminated by the Nazis all over Europe, arrived. But after Romania switched alliance to the Russians (23.8.1944) the way to Palestine was blocked. The Swiss consul, Carl Lutz obtained from the Hungar...

  9. Kritzinger Friedrich

    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm 1890-1947

    14/04/1890

    31/10/1947

    1938 Ministerialdirektor in the Reichskanzlei, since 1942 Staatssekretär (second in command after Lammers). Participant of the Wannsee Conference. Internment 1945/46, released due to illness, died in hospital.

  10. Kroeger Erhard

    • Kroeger, Erhard, 1905-1987
    • Kroeger, Erhard.
    • Kroeger, Erhard, 1905-
    • Kroeger, Erhard, b. 1905

    24/03/1905

    SS-Oberführer (1941). Head of Einsatzkommando 6 since Nov 1941.

  11. Krüger Friedrich-Wilhelm

    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilehlm, 1894-1957
    • Krüger, Friedrich-Wilhelm 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich W. 1894-1945
    • Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • ...

    08/05/1894

    10/05/1945

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1935), General der Polizei (General of Police). 1935 in the Stab Reichsführer SS, 1936 SS-Hauptamt. Since Oct 1939 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Ost in Krakow, in addition since May 1942 "Staatssekretär für das Sicherheitswesen im Generalgouvernement". Commanded what was later called the "Blutsonntag von Stanislau" (Bloody Sunday of Stanislawów) on 12 Oct 1941, a mass killing with 12,000 Jews shot. Suicide.

  12. Kruk Herman

    • Kruk, Hermann, 1897-1944
    • Kruk, Herman, 1897-1944
    • Kruk, Herman
    • קרוק, הערמאן, 1897־1944
    • Qrwq, Hʻrmʼan.
    • ...

    1897

    1944

    Librarian. Wrote diaries from the Vilna ghetto.

  13. Krumey Hermann

    • Krumey, Hermann, 1905-

    18/04/1905

    27/11/1981

    SS-Obersturmbannführer, Leader of the Umwandererzentrale Lodz (1940-1944), 1944 appointed Kommandoführer of the Sonderkommandos in Budapest.

  14. Kube Wilhelm

    • Kube, Wilhelm 1887-1943
    • Kube, W.
    • Kube, Wilhelm, 1887-
    • Kube, Wilhelm

    13/11/1887

    23/09/1943

  15. Kubovy Aryeh Leon

    • Kubovy, Aryeh L., 1896-1966
    • Kubowitzki, Aryeh Leon, 1896-1966
    • Kubovy, Arieh Leon, 1896-1966
    • Ḳubovi, Aryeh L., 1896-1966
    • קובובי, אריה ל.
    • ...

    02/11/1986

    16/05/1966

    Israeli diplomat and writer. Director of World Jewish Congres (1940-). The second Chairman of Yad Vashem.

  16. Kurtev Vladimir

    19/10/1888

    07/06/1946

    Righteous Among the Nations

  17. Kvitko Leib

    • Kvitko, Leib, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, Leyb, 1890-1952
    • Ḳṿiṭḳo, L., 1890-1952
    • קוויטקאָ, לייב, 1890-1952
    • Kwiṭko, Leib 1890-1952
    • ...

    01/01/1890

    12/08/1952

    Yiddish poet and novelist.

  18. Lachal Raymond

    • Lachal, Raymond 1898-1963

    04/05/1898

    11/01/1963

    French politician and parliament member

  19. Lagarde Abbe

    Catholic priest who helped hiding Jews. Prisoner of war at Bergen-Belsen

  20. Lakatos Géza

    • Lakatos, Géza
    • Lakatos, Géza, 1890-1967

    30/04/1890

    21/05/1967

    Military oficer and politician. Prime Minister of Hungary 29.08./16.10.1944.