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  1. Bandera Stepan

    • Bandera, Stepan, 1908-1959
    • Bandera, Stepan, 1909-1959
    • Bandera, Stefan, 1909-1959
    • Bandera, Stepan A. 1909-1959
    • Бандера, Степан, 1909-1959.
    • ...

    01/01/1909

    15/10/1959

    Ukrainian leader, joined the Orhanizatsyia Ukrainshkykh Natsionalistiv (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN) and soon became one of the leaders of the national organisation in Western Ukraine. Bandera helped the Nazis to set up two Ukrainian battalions, the Nachtigall battalion and the Roland Battalion, with the purpose of carrying out intelligence activities. The OUN-B organized "mobile units," which moved into the Ukraine with the German forces and established the local government and the Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Ukrainian Auxiliary Police). Arrested in September 1941 and sent to...

  2. Barasz Efraim

    1892

    Chairman of the Bialystok Judenrat.

  3. Barbie Klaus

    • Barbie, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • Hansen, Klaus Altmann, 1913-1991
    • Barbie, Nikolaus, 1913-1991
    • Altmann Hansen, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • Barbon, Klaus, 1913-1991
    • ...

    25/10/1913

    25/09/1991

    Gestapo chief in Lyon, France.

  4. Bárdossy László

    • Bárdossy, László, 1890-1946
    • Bárdossy, László

    10/12/1890

    10/01/1946

    Hungarian diplomat and a politician. He was Prime Minister of Hungary between April 3, 1941, and March 7, 1942, when Hungary entered the war against Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. In autumn 1944 he became one of the leaders of the extreme right National Alliance of Legislators (Törvényhozók Nemzeti Szövetsége). In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  5. Bauminger Heshek

    01/01/1919

    31/03/1943

    Jewish resistance fighter in the Cracow ghetto.

  6. Baur André

    • Baur, André, 1904-1944
    • Baur, André, 1904-
    • Baur, André, b. 1904

    01/01/1904

    1944

    President of the Union générale des israélites de France, murdered in Auschwitz with his wife and children.

  7. Beckerle Adolf Heinz

    • Beckerle, Adolf H. 1902-1976
    • Beckerle, Adolf-Heinz 1902-1976 Vollstaendiger Name

    04/02/1902

    03/04/1976

    SA-Obergruppenführer. German consul in Bulgaria, involved in the deportation of Bulgarian Jews.

  8. Begma Vasiliy

    01/01/1906

    12/08/1965

    Communist. One of the leaders of the partisan/underground movement in Ukraine during WWII.

  9. Belev Alexander

    07/07/1900

    09/09/1944

    Commissar of Jewish affairs. Lawyer. Leader of the antisemitic group Ratnitsi Napreduka na Bulgarshtinata. Responsible for plans for the deportation of Bulgarian Jews and Jews in Bulgarian occupied Greece and Yugoslavia.

  10. Benes Edvard

    • Beneš, Edvard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Eduard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edward, 1884-1948
    • Bénès, Edouard, 1884-1948
    • Beneš, Edvard, Pres. Czechoslovak Republic, 1884-1948
    • ...

    28/05/1884

    03/09/1948

    Czech and Czechoslovak politician, diplomat, president in 1935-48, president of the exile government in London during the war.

  11. Beregfy Károly

    12/02/1888

    12/03/1946

    Hungarian military officer and politician. Minister of Defence in the Szálasi Cabinet in 1944-1945. In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  12. Berger Gottlob

    • Berger, Gottlob, 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob Christian 1896-1975
    • Berger, Gottlob
    • Berger, Gotlob, 1896-1975

    16/07/1896

    05/01/1975

    SS-Obergruppenführer, General der Waffen-SS, head of the SS-Hauptamt.

  13. Berman Léon

    • Berman, Léon

    07/05/1892

    31/10/1943

    Rabbi of Lille 1936-1939 and historian.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. Bernheim André

    • Bernheim, André, 1877-1963

    25/10/1877

    02/12/1963

    Doctor. Vice president of Consistoire central. Collector of Jewish art.

  17. Best Werner

    • Best, Werner
    • Best, Werner, 1903-1989
    • Best, Werner, 1903-
    • Best, Karl Rudolf Werner, 1903-1989
    • Best, Werner Karl Rudolf, 1903-1989
    • ...

    10/07/1903

    23/06/1989

    SS-Obergruppenführer (1944). Deputy of Reinhard Heydrich in the SD and later in the RSHA (1934–1940). German Statthalter in occupied Denmark (1942–1945).

  18. Biberstein Ernst

    • Biberstein, Ernst
    • Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski, Ernst, 1899-1986
    • Szymanowski-Biberstein, Ernst, 1899-1986

    05/02/1899

    08/12/1986

    Commander of Einsatzkommando 6, Christian theologian by profession, SS-Sturmbannführer (1939).

  19. Biebow Hans

    • Biebow, Hans
    • Biebow, Hans, 1902-1947

    18/12/1902

    23/06/1947

    Leiter (Head) of the Ghettoverwaltung (ghetto administration) Lodz. Organiser of deportations from Lodz to the extermination camp Chelmno. Sentenced to death 30.04.1947 in Poland.

  20. Bielski Tuvia

    • טוביה בילסקי
    • Tuvia Bielski

    Tuvia Bielski - Jewish partisan commander. Was born in 1906, in Stankiewicze, to family of farmers. At the age of seventeen he joined the Zionist pioneering movement, and in 1928 he was mobilized into the Polish army. He married and settled in the village of Subotnik where he opened a textile store. In September 1939 the area was annexed to the Soviet Union. With the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Bielski was mobilized. When the Germans invaded the region he fled to the forest, and from there to his village of birth. After his parents and other members of their family...