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  1. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    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.

  2. Brand Joël

    • Brand, Joe͏̈l, 1907-1964
    • Brand, Joël 1906-1964
    • ברנד, יואל, 1906-1964
    • ברנד, יואל, ־1906
    • בראנד, יואל, 1906־
    • ...

    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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Gruenbaum Yizhak

    • Gruenbaum, Isaak Icek, 1879-1970
    • Grinboym, Yitsḥaḳ, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Isaac, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Itzhak, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Yiẓḥak 1879-1970
    • ...

    1879

    1970

    Zionist.

  8. Gustloff Wilhelm

    • Gustloff, Wilhelm
    • גוסטלוף, וילהלם
    • Gusṭlof, Ṿilhelm 1895-1936
    • Gustloff, Wilhelm, 1895-1936

    1895

    1936

    Swiss Nazi party leader, killed by David Frankfurter.

  9. Heim Otto

    • Heim, Otto H. 1896-1978
    • Heim, Otto H. 1896-1978

    17/11/1896

    12/05/1978

    Helped refugees during WWII, member of Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Refugee Aid and Welfare Organisations) during the war and head of the VSJF 1945-1968.

  10. 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.

  11. Kapel Shmuel René

    • Kapel, René Samuel
    • Kapel, Shmuel René
    • Ḳapel, Shemuʾel Reneh
    • Kapel, Samuel René
    • קפל, שמואל רנה
    • ...

    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.

  12. Karski Jan

    • 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
    • ...

    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.

  13. Klarsfeld Beate

    • Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939-....
    • Klarsfeld, Beate
    • קלארספלד, ביאטה, ־1939

    13/02/1939

    Journalist. Nazi hunter.

  14. Klarsfeld Serge

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

    17/09/1935

    Nazi hunter.

  15. 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...

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Musy Jean Marie

    • Musy, Jean-Marie, 1876-1952
    • Musy, Jean, 1876-1952
    • Musy, Jean-Marie
    • Musy, Jean Marie 1876-1952

    10/04/1876

    19/04/1952

    Member of the Federal Council of Switzerland (1919/1934). Negotiated the release of 1210 prisoners from Theresienstadt.

  19. 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

  20. Riegner Gerhard

    12/09/1911

    03/12/2001

    Head of Genfer Geschäftsstelle des WJC (1939-48). Passed information on the murder on European Jews to the British and American governments