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  1. Fleischmann Gisi

    • Fleischmannová, Gizi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmannová, Gisela, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi, 1892-1944
    • Fleischmann, Gisi
    • פלישמן, גישי
    • ...

    21/01/1892

    1944

    President of the Slovak WIZO, and representative of the Joint in Slovakia. Gisi Fleischmann was one of the few female Jewish leaders in Europe during World War II. She helped Jews in Slovakia to find refuge in other countries before the war and in the midst of the war. As a member of the Bratislava underground Working Group, she was involved with the Europa Plan and the Children’s Rescue Plan, which attempted to save Jews through bribery and negotiations with the Nazis. Fleischmann was arrested by the SS in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. She was murdered on arrival in Auschwitz in October ...

  2. Forster Albert

    • Forster, Albert, 1902-1952
    • Forster, Albert Maria 1902-1952
    • Forster, Albert
    • Forster, Albert 1902-1945

    26/07/1902

    28/02/1952

    NSDAP-Gauleiter of Gdansk-West Prussia.

  3. Franco Francisco

    • Franco Bahamonde, Francisco, 1892-1975
    • Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975
    • Boor, J., 1892-1975
    • Andrade, Jaime de, 1892-1975
    • Franco, Francisco.
    • ...

    1892

    1975

    Spanish head of state from 1939 until 1975.

  4. Frank Hans

    • Frank, Hans, 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans M., 1900-1946
    • Frank, Hans
    • Frank, Hans Michael
    • Frank.
    • ...

    23/05/1900

    16/10/1946

    Reichsrechtsführer. Hitler's lawyer, leading jurist in the Third Reich. Since 25 Oct 1939 Generalgouverneur of occupied Poland.

  5. Frank Karl Hermann

    • Frank, Karl Hermann
    • Frank, Karl Hermann, 1898-1946
    • Frank, Karl H. 1898-1946
    • Frank.
    • Frank, K. H. 1898-1946
    • ...

    24/01/1898

    22/05/1946

    SS-Gruppenführer. In 1936, deputy of Henlein, in 1938 appointed deputy NSDAP-Gauleiter Sudetengau. From 1939 to 1944 state secretary (Staatssekretär) at the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, at the same time Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer. Executed.

  6. Frankfurter David

    • Franqfûrṭer, Dāwid 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David, 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David
    • פרנקפורטר, דויד
    • ...

    1909

    1982

    Killed W. Gustloff (NS-Landesgruppenleiter in Switzerland) on 04.02.1936; since 1933 in Bern, Switzerland, expelled from Switzerland in 1945, emigrated to Tel Aviv.

  7. Franz Kurt

    17/01/1914

    1998

    Particpated at the T4 (Euthanasia) operation and in Aktion Reinhard. Since Aug 1943 last Kommandant of Treblinka.

  8. Freudiger Fülöp

    • Philipp von Freudiger
    • Pinchas Freudiger

    1900–1976

    Hungarian Jewish businessman, factory owner, community leader. Born in Budapest to a well-to-do family, Freudiger succeeded his father, Abraham, as the head of the Orthodox Jewish community of Budapest in 1939. Freudiger helped many of the Jewish refugees in Hungary. After German occupation, 1944 appointed to the Judenrat in Budapest. Through the intermediacy of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel of Bratislava, Freudiger established close contact with Dieter Wisliceny of the Eichmann Sonderkommando almost immediately after the occupation in March, 1944. By bribing Wisliceny, Freudiger succeeded ...

  9. Frick Wilhelm

    • Frick, Wilhelm, 1877-1946
    • Fulike 1877-1946
    • Frick, Wilhelm.

    12/03/1877

    16/10/1946

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  10. Friedman Philip

    • Friedman, Philip, 1901-1960
    • Friedmann, Filip
    • Friedmann, Filip.
    • Fridman, Filip.
    • Friedman, Filip.
    • ...

    1901

    1960

    Holocaust survivor, historian of the Holocaust, founded the Central Jewish Historical Commission immediately after WWII.

  11. Funk Walther Emanuel

    1890/08/18

    31/05/1960

    Reichswirtschaftsminister (Reich minister for economic affairs).

  12. Gabrovski Peter

    09/07/1898

    25/08/1947

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  13. Gamzon Robert

    • Gamzon, Robert
    • Castor

    1905

    1961

    Founder of the Jewish scout movement in France and partisan commander, joined the executive board of UGIF in January 1942.

  14. Ganzenmüller Albert

    • Ganzenmueller, Albert
    • Ganzenmüller, Albert 1905-1996
    • Ganzenmüller, Albert, 1905-
    • Ganzenmüller, Albert, b. 1905

    25/02/1905

    20/03/1996

    Staatssekretär in the German Transport Ministry (Reichsverkehrsministerium). Involved in the deportation of German Jews.

  15. Garel Georges

    • Garel, Georges, 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grigori 1909-1979
    • Garfinkel, Grégori 1909-1979

    1909

    1979

    Ran one of the OSE networks, rescuer of Jewish children in Vichy France by passing them of as gentiles and hiding among the non-Jewish French population.

  16. Gebirtig Mordechai

    • Gʿebiyrṭiyg, Mordekay, 1877-1942
    • Guebirtig, Mordje, 1877-1942
    • Gebirtig, Mordechaj, 1877-1942
    • געבירטיג, מרדכי, 1877־1942
    • Gebirtig, Mordechai, 1877-1942
    • ...

    1877

    June 1942

    Yiddish poet and songwriter, wrote what became the anthem of Cracow's Jewish underground resistance: Undzer shtetl brent (Our town is burning), shot and killed by German soldiers.

  17. Geissmann Raymond

    • Geissmann, Raymond

    Lawyer, director of the Lyon UGIF in 1943-44, witness in Barbie trial, son of Holocaust victim, Nazi hunter and French Holocaust historian.

  18. Gemmeker Albert Konrad

    • Gemmeker, Albert Konrad, 1907-1982
    • Gemmeker, Albert, 1907-1982

    27/09/1907

    1982

    SS-Obersturmführer. Commander of Westerbork camp.

  19. Gens Jacob

    • Gens, Jacob, 1903-1943
    • Gens, Jacob, 1905-1943

    1903

    1943

    Commander of the ghetto police and from 1942 head of the ghetto administration and sole representative of the ghetto (Ghettovorsteher), murdered in the Vilnius ghetto.

  20. Gerlier Pierre-Marie

    • Gerlier, Pierre, 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Pierre 1880-1965
    • Gerlier, Monseigneur 1880-1865
    • Gerlier, Cardinal 1880-1965
    • Gerlier.
    • ...

    1880

    1965

    French Cardinal of the Catholic church, archbishop of Lyon 1937-1965, , protested publicly against anti-Jewish measures.