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• 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
• Lietuviškoji 16-oji Raudonosios Armijos divizija

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• 1941-1945
• Updated 10 years ago

The 16th Rifle Division was a formation in the Red Army created during the Second World War. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Novgorod in October 1939. In the end of 1941 reformed and given the title 'Lithuanian', the division participated in several battles against Nazi Germany, including Kursk, Belarus, and the Baltic. It was disbanded at the end of the war, although it was briefly revived in 1955 before being disbanded once more. When the 16th Division was reformed after its destruction, it w...

• Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department
• Ypiresia Anazitiseon Ellinikou Erithrou Staurou
• Διεύθυνση Αναζητήσεων του Ελληνικού Ερυθρού Σταυρού
• Diefthynsi Anazitiseon tou Ellinikou Erythrou Stavrou

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• 1915
• Updated 8 years ago

Ever since its foundation, in 1915, until now the Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department has performed very significant task. During its course, it has not only been active in unstable situations, in time of war and peace tracing missing persons, both in Greece and abroad, but also it has facilitated communication between captives, detainees and refugees and their relatives. Goals · Maintain family unity · Restore family links · Maintain communication among family members · Trace the missing persons and inform their relatives The Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department has the largest tracing ...

• Lavoslav Šik

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• 1881-1942
• Updated 9 years ago

Lavoslav Schick (Šik) was a Croatian/Yugoslav Zionist, Judaist, journalist and a lawyer. He was born on the 27th of November 1881 in Vienna. After the death of his father, his mother married again and moved with his new husband and her two sons, Lavoslav (Leo) and Otto, in 1891 to Zagreb (Croatia) – then part of the Habsburg Empire. Schick studied Law in Zagreb, Vienna and Budapest and worked as a journalist. Already at the end of the 19th century he affirmed himself as a Zionist. He organized youth meetings, supported the Association of the South Slav Academics Bar Giora, founded 1902 in V...

• Jehovah's Witnesses

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1870s/present

Founded in the United States in the 1870s, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization sent missionaries to Germany to seek converts in the 1890s. By the early 1930s, only 20,000 (of a total population of 65 million) Germans were Jehovah's Witnesses, usually known at the time as "International Bible Students". Even before 1933, despite their small numbers, door-to-door preaching and the identification of Jehovah's Witnesses as heretics by the mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches made them few friends. Individual German states and local authorities periodically sought to limit the group's pr...

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• Chaim Pozner

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• 1899-1981
• Updated 8 years ago

1899-1981

Chaim Pazner was born in Kowal, Poland, 04 January 1899. In his youth he was active in the Hechalutz movement in the Wloclawek area in Poland, and he served as Vice-Principal of the Hebrew High School in Wloclawek. He was the director of the Committee of Assistance to Polish Refugees in Danzig, 1920-1922. He also served as the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Association (JTA) in Danzig, 1921-1923. He was one of the leaders of the League for Working Eretz Israel in Wloclawek, and he was elected as a representative to the 12th Zionist Congress in Karlsbad and to other Zionist convent...

• Gruenbaum, Isaak Icek, 1879-1970
• Grinboym, Yitsḥaḳ, 1879-1970
• Gruenbaum, Isaac, 1879-1970
• Gruenbaum, Itzhak, 1879-1970
• Gruenbaum, Yiẓḥak 1879-1970
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• Updated 9 years ago

1879

1970

Zionist.

• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
• ルーズヴェルト, フランクリン・D
• Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, 1882-1945
• Luosifu, 1882-1945
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1882-1945
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• Updated 5 years ago

30/01/1882

02/04/1945

32nd president of the United States (1933-1945)

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• Updated 9 years ago

Founded in 1927

HICEM is established in 1927, with the goal to help European Jews emigrate. HICEM was formed with the merger of three Jewish migration associations: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which was based in New York; Jewish Colonization Association, which was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society; and Emigdirect, a migration organization based in Berlin. By the time the Second World War broke out in 1939-09, HICEM had offices all over Europe, South and Central America, and the Far East. Its employees advised and prepared European refugees for emigration, including helping the...

• Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
• Blobel, Paul

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• Updated 9 years ago

13/08/1894

07/06/1951

SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

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• 1882-1552
• Updated 10 years ago

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...

• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• Truman, Harry, 1884-1972
• Trumėn, G. 1884-1972
• Dulumen, 1884-1972
• טרומאן, הארי ס., 1884-1972
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• Updated 5 years ago

08/05/1884

26/12/1972

33rd president of the United States (1945-53).

• Brand, Joe͏̈l, 1907-1964
• Brand, Joël 1906-1964
• ברנד, יואל, 1906-1964
• ברנד, יואל, ־1906
• בראנד, יואל, 1906־
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• Updated 7 years ago

1907

13/07/1964

Member of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest; organised rescue and relief for refugees from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland and smuggled Jews into Hungary in 1943. After the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, Brand was approached by Eichmann for "Blood for Goods" deal to negotiate between Jewish leaders and Nazis regarding the sparing of 1 million Jews for 10 000 trucks and other goods. In 1961 Brand testified at Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem.

• Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 1904?-1957
• וייסמנדל, רחמ״ד
• וויסמאנדל, מיכאל דוב
• ווייסמאנדל, מיכאל בער, ?1904־1957
• ווייסמאנדל, חיים מיכאל דוב, 1957־?1904
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• Updated 9 years ago

1903

1956

Rabbi in Slovakia. Helped halt the deportation of Slovakian Jews for two years, through the organisation Working Group, who bribed German and Slovakian officials. Created the Europa Plan the rescue European Jews Jews in hte same way. In 1944 broadcast the so called Auschwitz Protocols about the mass exterminations. Escaped from Auschwitz, settled in the United States. \

• CFGJ

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• Updated 10 years ago

Founded in 1936

The Council for German Jewry was a British Jewish organization established in 1936 to help German Jews leave Germany. British Jewish leaders instituted the Council for German Jewry in response to the racial Nuremberg Laws of 1935; they designed an emigration plan whereby 100,000 German Jews aged 17-35 could leave Germany in an organized manner. Half were to move to Palestine, and half to other countries. The CFGJ also hoped that another 100,000 German Jews would emigrate without their help. The American Joint Distribution Committee formally joined the council in 1936-08. The CFGJ was never ...

• 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
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• Updated 7 years ago

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.

• Fleischmannová, Gizi, 1892-1944
• Fleischmannová, Gisela, 1892-1944
• Fleischmann, Gisi, 1892-1944
• Fleischmann, Gisi
• פלישמן, גישי
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• Updated 7 years ago

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 ...

• IRO

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• Updated 1 decade ago

1946/1952-01

International Refugee Organization, temporary specialized agency of the United Nations that, between its formal establishment in 1946 and its termination in 1952-01, assisted refugees and displaced persons in many countries of Europe and Asia who either could not return to their countries of origin or were unwilling to return for political reasons. Beginning operations on 1947-07-01, the IRO took over the work of its principal predecessor organization, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Among the services supplied by the IRO were the care and maintenance of refugee...

• Kapel, René Samuel
• Kapel, Shmuel René
• Ḳapel, Shemuʾel Reneh
• Kapel, Samuel René
• קפל, שמואל רנה
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• Person
• Updated 9 years ago

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.

• Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities
• SIG

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• Updated 10 years ago

1904-11-27/present

On 1904-11-27, 27 representatives of the 13 Jewish communities from the whole of Switzerland met in Baden for a founding assembly. Articles of association were adopted and a five-member executive appointed, thus constituting the launch of the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund. The objective of the newly founded association was 'to safeguard and represent the general interests of Judaism in Switzerland’. Early 1930s SIG redoubled its offensive against anti-Semitism by inaugurating its own press office late in 1936 - the Jüdische Nachrichten. During the Second World War the SIG and ...

• Committee for Assistance to Refugees
• CAR

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With the moderation of French policy toward the refugees as a result of the election of the Popular Front government in the spring of 1936, French Jewish refugee relief revived. At the initiative of the Joint Distribution Committee, a new committee, Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés, was established with Raymond-Raoul Lambert as its general secretary. Under Lambert’s leadership, CAR focused on providing assistance, including vocational retraining, that would enable the refugees to finds a niche in France. From the fall of 1938 until the outbreak of the war in 1939-09 the staff of CAR worked ...