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  1. Foreign Office - Spain

    • משרד החוץ - ספרד

  2. Walter Warlimont

  3. Westerweel Groep

    • Westerweel Group

    The Westerweel group provided protection to Jewish children and young adults at the assorted hakhsharah institutions. Joop Westerweel organized underground training for the children of the Youth Aliyah in the Loosdrechtse Rade. There he met Joachim Simons, who warned him about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. The resistance group associated with the Westerweels arranged places to hide for a great many young adults. Small groups fled to Spain and Switzerland via Belgium and France. At least 60 young adults reached Spain.

  4. Einsatzkommando Salonica

    • EK Salonica

    The Einsatzkommando at Salonica was instructed to treat the Spanish Jews in a way that could not give any case for serious complaints and ‘undesired propaganda’ in case they were later granted an exit permit to Spain.

  5. Benjamin Arditi

    • בנימין יוסף ארדיטי

    Public Peronality, Zionist activist in Bulgaria and Israel, Member of the Israel Parliament, historian of the Bulgarian Jews, owner of important Archive situated in Yad-Vashem Archives.

  6. 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.

  7. Garda de Fier

    • Iron Guard

    Founded in 1927

    The Garda de Fier was a fascist and anti-Semitic movement in Romania, whose members were known as ‘Legionnaires’. Originally established in 1927 under the name ‘legion of the Archangel Michael’ and organized into paramilitary units, the Garda de Fier soon became a mass political movement. It was officially dissolved in 1933, but continued to function, even receiving the third largest number of votes in Romania’s 1937 election. During the mid-1930s the Garda de Fier also established ties with the Nazi regime in Germany. In 1938, Romania’s King Carol II again outlawed the Garda de Fier. Nonet...

  8. 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.

  9. Pavelic Ante

    • Pavelić, Ante Smith
    • Pavelić, Ante
    • Smith Pavelic, Ante
    • Pavelić, Ante, 1889-1959
    • Pawelitsch, Ante, 1889-1959
    • ...

    14/07/1889

    28/12/1959

    Fascist leader, formed USTASA and later added antisemitism to the Ustasa's ideology

  10. Dimitrov Georgi

    • Dimitrov, Georgi, 1882-1949
    • Dimitroff, G.
    • Dimitrov, Georgi
    • Dimitrov, Georgi Mihajlov
    • Dimitrow, G. (Georgi)
    • ...

    18/06/1882

    02/07/1949

    Bulgarian communist. After being acquitted as the star defendant at the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933, D. became general secretary of the comintern in 1935. Leader of Bulgarian communists after the Soviet liberation and became prime minister on 06.11.1946.

  11. 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.