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  1. Abraham Salomon Levisson

    8 June 1902 - 25 April 1945

    In 1935 he was appointed chief rabbi of Friesland. This appointment included responsibility for the district of Drenthe. In 1941 he was also appointed chief rabbi of Gelderland. An announcement in recognition of this appointment appeared on the front page of the Joodsche Weekblad in July 1941. Abraham Salomon Levisson founded the circle of Jewish academics in Friesland in an effort to retain Jewish intellectuals within the Jewish community. Chief Rabbi Levisson was one of the leaders in the Leeuwarden subcommittee of the committee for special Jewish interests. In the late 1930s Levisson bec...

  2. Abraham Silberschein

    Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerland from where he tried to organize relief activities for the persecuted Jews in Poland and Germany. He was the fo...

  3. Abraham Spiegel

  16. Abromeit Franz

    08/08/1907

    30/06/1964

    Judenberater of Eichmann. SS-Hauptsturmführer in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.

  17. Abteilung Feindvermögen

    1940-11-01/1945

    Main task of the Abteilung Feindvermögen was the implementation of the regulation VO 26/1940, the treatment of the expropriation of enemy assets.

  18. Abwehr

    • Self-defense

    1933/1944-02-18

    Abwehr was a German intelligence agency. Formed in 1933, it was attached to the foreign and counterintelligence department of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Its head, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, was an opponent of the Nazi regime. After 1938, Abwehr became the center of a conspiracy against the Hitler government. On 1944-02-18, the Abwehr was dissolved into the SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt.