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  1. Abraham Asscher

    19 September 1880 – 2 May 1950

    a Dutch Jewish businessman and politician from Amsterdam. In the 1930s, he became a leader and spokesmen of the Dutch Jewish community. He served as the President of the nation’s central Jewish organization, the Nederlandsch-Israëlitsch Kerkgenootschap (Dutch Jewish Congregation). When Jewish refugees began to flee in numbers to the Netherlands from the Nazi regime in Germany, it was Asscher, along with Professor David Cohen, who established (with government support) two organizations to deal with the situation. The Comité voor Bijzondere Joodse Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Intere...

  2. Yerushalmi Eliezer

    • Yerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • Jerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר, 1900-1962
    • ירושלמי, אליעזר
    • Yerushalmi, A., 1900-1962
    • ...

    Member of "the delegation" in Siaulilai ghetto (Lithuania). Kept a diary giving an account of events in the ghetto.

  3. 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...

  4. Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Population

    • RELICO

    Founded in 1939-09

    The Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Population was established in Geneva on 1939-09 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein under the aegis of the World Jewish Congress. He assisted Jewish refugees from Germany and later from Poland and Lithuania and other areas of Europe. This organization was instrumental in getting refugees to Kobe, Japan, and Shanghai, China. It was also one of the first to apprise the world of the Chelmno and Treblinka death camps. The Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Population’s attempt to obtain 10,000 South American passports for prominent Poles fell t...

  5. Jarblum Marc

    • Jarblum, Marc, 1887-1972
    • יארבלום, מרדכי
    • יארבלום, מ.
    • Jarblum, Mordʹkhai, 1887-1972
    • Jarblum, M.
    • ...

    1887

    1972

    Socialist president of the Zionist Organization of France and head of the Fédération des Sociétés juives de France (FSJF), one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in rance, refuged in Geneve, Switzerland, in 1943.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Raeder Erich

    • Raeder, Erich
    • Raeder, Erich, 1876-1960
    • Raeder, E. (Erich), 1876-1960
    • Raeder, Erich.
    • Raeder, E.
    • ...

    24/04/1876

    06/11/1960

    Grand Admiral in the German Navy until retirement in 1941

  8. Murmelstein Benjamin

    • Murmelstein, Benjamin, 1905-
    • Murmelstein, Benjamin, 1905-1989
    • Murmelstein, B., 1905-1989
    • Murmelsztajn, Benjamin 1905-
    • Murmelstein, Benjamin
    • ...

    1905

    1989

    Rabbi in the Vienna Jewish community, member of the Judenrat. Deported to Theresienstadt, deputy and later Judenältester.

  9. Sternbuch Isaac

    Representative in the Va'ad ha-hatsala rescue committee of the Orthodox rabbis in the United States together with his wife Recha. Headed the Relief Organisation for Jewish Refugees Abroad. Helped rescue numerous Jews from Poland and Czechoslovakia.

  10. Sugihara Sempo

    • 杉原, 千畝, 1900-1986
    • スギハラ, チウネ, 1900-1986
    • Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986
    • Sugihara, Chiune.
    • 杉原千畝, 1900-1986.
    • ...

    01/01/1900

    31/07/1986

    Consul general in Kovno, Lithuania. Assisted Jewish refugees in 1940. Righteous among the nations from 1984.

  11. Klarsfeld Serge

    • Klarsfeld, Serge, 1935-....
    • Klarsfeld, Serge

    17/09/1935

    Nazi hunter.

  12. Paul Grüninger

    • Paul Grueninger

    Head of the District Police of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Between August and December 1938, after the Switzerland closed its borders to Jewish refugees following the Anschluss, Paul Grueninger provided forged entry visas to more than 3,000 Jewish refugees backdating their visas and falsifying other documents. Paul Grueninger was dimissed from his office and lost all his rights, including his retirement benefits. He lived in harsh conditions until his death in 1972. In 1995, the Swiss federal Government finally annulled Grüninger's conviction and cleared his name completely. Paul Grueninger ...

  13. League of Nations

    1919/1946

    The League of Nations was an international peacekeeping organization set up as part of the Versailles Treaty in 1919, with headquarters in Geneva. Appeals by German Jews regarding human rights in the Reich were not adjudicated. Its High Commission for Refugees was ineffectual, leading James Grover McDonald to resign. Insincerity of the great powers lead to the League’s impotency. The High Commissioner for Refugees revealed, as early as 1939, the fate of Jewry in various countries and the persecution and gross violations of human rights. Although the League existed until 1946, it was replace...

  14. Jüdische Nachrichten

    • Jewish News
    • JUNA

    Founded in 1936

    Jüdische Nachrichten was founded by the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG), Zürich, as its press office in 1936, with the objectives not only to confront Nazism but also to address growing Anti-semitism in Switzerland. To this end it produced news bulletins in German and French and distributed them to numerous editorial offices throughout Switzerland. Under the leadership of Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz JUNA amassed a large archive of documentation concerning the Holocaust and the fate of Jewish refugees and other related subjects.

  15. 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.

  16. Československý červený kříž, Londýn

    • Czechoslovak Red Cross, London

    After the forced dissolution of the Czechoslovak Red Cross on 5th of August 1940 by the German occupiers the Czechoslovak government in Exile founded the Czechoslovak Red Cross in London and its delegations in Egypt, Iran, Italy, Palestine, USA. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, the London office moved to Prague. During the war, the main task of the Czechoslovak Red Cross was to provide medical care for the military, the medical care for Czechoslovak refugees and for Czechoslovak citizens in the territory of Nazi Germany.

  17. Mayer Saly

    • מאיר סלי
    • Mayer, Saly, 1882-1950
    • Saly, Mayer
    • Saly, Mayer, 1882-1950

    1882

    1950

    President of the Schweizerische Israelische Gemeindebund (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities) [SIG] 1936-1943 and representative of JOINT in Switzerland.

  18. Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees

    • IGCR

    Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees was a rescue organization set up as a result of the Evian Conference to search for new areas of large-scale Jewish settlements, find ways of pressuring the German government to release Jews, and prompt Evian nations (thirty-two) to accept Jews. The IGCR’s lukewarm rescue efforts were ineffective and did not lower immigration barriers. Its very existence, a mere token, frustrated other rescue plans.

  19. Komisja Koordynacyjna Żydowskich Instytucji Społecznych

    • Coordinating Commission for Jewish Social Welfare Institutions
    • KK

    Founded in 1939-09-14

    On 1939-09-14, the Komisja Koordynacyjna Żydowskich Instytucji Społecznych was set up as one of the parts of the civil defense of Warsaw. In the first months of the occupation the KK organized district offices, set up a Section for Care of Refugees and Those Made Homeless and a Section for People's Kitchens.

  20. Commission des Camps des Oeuvres Israélites d’Assistance aux Réfugiés

    • Commission des Camps

    Founded in 1941-01

    Dr. Joseph Weill took part in the creation of the Commission des Camps des Oeuvres Israélites d’Assistance aux Réfugiés in 1941-01. He tried to made immediate improvements in the atrocious internment conditions in close conjunction with the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants.