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Name
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Location
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Description/Organization[Reference(s)]
|
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Dr. Angelo Sacerdoti
|
Italy
|
Community leader
Council of the Union
Rescue advocate
|
|
Dr. Bernard Sachs
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Rescue Activist
Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Physicians OSE
Board of Directors, JDC
[Zucker 2008.]
|
|
Professor Dov Sadan
|
Palestine
|
Active in Al-Domi (No Silence); rescue advocate
|
|
Shlomo Sadeh (1924-2003) (Tamás Szabo)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomwe Hatzair
Fighting Underground
[Gur 2007. P.209]
|
|
Ben Sadowski
|
Toronto, Canada
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Alena Sáfár (Zehava Becker) (b.1921)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Beitar underground activist – courier
Assistant to Andy Freiman, Leader of Beitar
Worked at Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.54]
|
|
Rabbi Alexander Safran (1910-2006)
|
Romania
|
Union of Jewish Communities (Federatia Uniunilor de Comunitati Evreesti), Jewish community leader, rescuer
Chief Rabbi of Romania 1940-1947
Forstalled deportations, reported on Holocaust
[Levai 1965.
Safran 1987.]
|
|
Gregor Sagal
|
Germany
|
Paltreu Company
Assistant to Ernst Marcus
[Levin 1968. P.83]
|
|
Benjamin Sagalowitz
|
Geneva, Switzerland
|
World Jewish Congress (WJC)
Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland
|
|
Eliyaltu “Eli” Saji (1924-1984)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Rescue and Resistance
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped refugees from Slovokia, distributed Swiss Shutzpasse
Arrested
[Gur 2007. P.209]
|
|
Péter (Eli) Sajó* (1920-1944)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader Hashomer Hatzair
Major underground Zionist leader, caught and deported to Auchwitz, murdered
[Gur 2007. P.209]
|
|
Simon Sakowitz
|
Houston, Texas, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Ignác Salamon (Yitzak Shalmon) (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Bnei Akiva
Helped procure Aryan documents for Jews
Arrested and tortured, escaped from Arrow Cross
[Gur 2007. Pp.209-210]
|
|
Mihály Salamon (1897 -1991)
(Menachem Mendel Salomon)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Mizrachi
Senior rescue activist, worked at Swiss legation, Vadasz Street
Procured Schutzpasse for Jews
[Gur 2007. P.211]
|
|
Hava Salomon (1926-2007) (Eva Barmat)
|
Budapest Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Distributed forged protective paper and food
[Cohen 1981.
Gur 2007. P.210]
|
|
Edgar Salinger
|
USA
|
Chairman, American ORT Federation
|
|
Alice Salomon
|
France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE)
|
|
Andrée Salomon (d. 1985)
|
Limoges Sector, France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE)
Garel Network (Réseau Garel), worked with Julien Samuel
[Latour 1970.
Lazare 1996.
Samuel 2002.]
|
|
Walter Salomon
|
Caracas, Venezuela
|
Secretary, Comite Israelita Pro Refugiados
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Jacques Salon
|
Southern France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE)
Arrested, deported, escaped
[Samuel 2002.]
|
|
Joseph Salpeter
|
Poland
|
Underground leader
[Porat 1990.]
|
|
Shmuel Saltzman*
|
Chmielnik Ghetto
|
Chairman, Chmielnik Jewish Council
Helped set up ghetto fighting resistance unit
Killed
|
|
A.J.Saltzsein
|
Milwaukee , Wisconsin, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
B. Salutskij
|
Helsinki, Finland
|
Refugee Committee, Helsinki Jewish Congregation
[Rautkalio 1987.]
|
|
Chief Rabbi Israël Salzer
|
Southern France
|
President, chaplain of Les Milles Camp, relief activist
Tried to stop deportation by intervening with French authorities
General Union of French Jews (Union Général des Israelites de France;UGIF-South)
[Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
S. Sambor*
|
France
|
HIAS-ICA (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrand Aid Society) Emigration Association of Œuvre
Killed
[Ginzberg p.192
HIAS Archives, NY
Wischnitzer 1956. P.192]
|
|
Sir Herbert Samuel
|
Great Britain
|
Council for German Jewry (Council) ; Central Council for Jewish Refugees, London
|
|
Julien Samuel (d. 1981)
|
Marseilles and Limoges, France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE)
Garel Network (Réseau Garel)
Arrested, deported, escaped
[Cohen 1987.
Latour 1970.
Rayski 2005.
Samuel 2002.]
|
|
Vivette Samuel
|
Southern France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE), Rivesaltes French Detention Center
[Rayski 2005.
Samuel 2002.]
|
|
Sarah Sandak (1920-2005) (Sári Kertész)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped refugees, obtained and distributed Aryan Documents
[Gur 2007. P.211]
|
|
Dr. Franz Sander
|
Bohemia-Moravia, Czechoslovakia
|
Supreme Council of the Federation of Jewish Religious Congregations, Department for Non-Mosaic Jews
[Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Gerard Sanders
|
Netherlands
|
Jewish Council leader, Enschede, Holland; urged Jews to go into hiding; developed underground movement
[Presser 1969.]
|
|
Fred Saraga
|
Bucharest, Romania
|
Refugee Aid Committee
Autonomous Committee for Assistance (Comisia Autonoma de Assistenta)
Jewish Coordinating Council
Representative, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[Ancel 1987. Vol.5,8
JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Dov Sas* (1922-1944)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Killed in action with Red Army in 1944
[Gur 2007. P.212]
|
|
Sir Victor Sassoon
|
Shanghai, China
|
Philanthropist, founded and funded International Committee for the Relief of European Jews (IC)
[Kranzer 1976.]
|
|
Louis Scadron
|
USA
|
Treasurer, Tel-Hai Fund, Inc.
|
|
Zvi Scarlet (Shani)
|
Palestine
|
Treasurer, secretary, Al-Domi (Do Not Keep Silent)
Rescue activist
|
|
Nathan Schachnowski
|
France
|
Bund
Relief activist, arrested for aiding Jews
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
József (Joseph) Schaeffer (1922-1984)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader Maccabi Hatzair
Helped refugees from Slovakia
Worked in Dept. A International Red Cross (ICRC), with childrens homes
[Gur 2007.]
|
|
Moshe Schalit*
|
Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania
|
President, HIAS-ICA, Kovno, Vilna, Riga
Deported and murdered in concentration camp
[Ginzberg 1942. Pp.163-164
HIAS Archives, Yivo
Wischnitzer 1956. P.192]
|
|
Katalin Schamschila (1926-2003) (Rut Herzfeld)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Distributed forged Swiss protective documents
[Gur 2007. P.211]
|
|
E.J Schanfarber
|
Columbus, Ohio, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Lazer Schatzufkovitch
|
Palestine
|
Polish Jewish leadership, fundraising
|
|
David Schecter* (1924-1944)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist
Killed while escaping to Bucharest
[Gur 2007. P.212]
|
|
Herman Schechter (Tzvi Shahar) (b.1926)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.219]
|
|
Zvi Schechter
|
Turkey
|
Mossad Aliyah Bet, Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Ibolya Scheer (Mirium Goldberger; b. 1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Rescue activist
Wife of Otto Goldberger
[Gur 2007. P.108]
|
|
Edith Scheftel (“Jacqueline Estager,” “Pauline Gaudefroi”)
|
Limoges, France
|
Leader, Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants), Central section
|
|
Dr. Jacob Scheiber
|
Romania
|
Betar Party
|
|
Lucienn Scheid-Hass
|
Occupied France
|
Council member, General Union of Jews of France (UGIF-North)
[Adler 1987.
Cohen 1987.]
|
|
Yechiel Scheinbaum*
|
Vilnius-Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania
|
Leader, “Yechiel’s Combat Group”
Underground partisan commander; helped Jews escape
Cooperated with FPO
Killed in action
|
|
Dr. Shmuel Scheps (b. 1904)
|
Basel and Geneva, Switzerland
|
Head, Palestine office, Basel, 1933-1939
Head, Palestine office, Geneva, 1939-1945
[Porat 1990. P.317]
|
|
Dr. Emmanuel Scherer (Bund)
|
Poland
|
Council for the Rescue of the Jewish Population of Poland
|
|
Rico Schick
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Escape leader
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”)
Perl Transport, Commanded rescue ship Aghia Tzioni
[Perl 1978. P.217]
|
|
Dr. Jacob Schieber
|
Romania
|
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”) Perl Transport
Leader Romanian Betar Party
Rescue and relief activist
[Ofer 1990. Pp.78,85
Perl 1978.]
|
|
Otto Schiff
|
London, England
|
Head, Jews temporary shelter
Jewish Refugee Committee
German Jewish Aid Committee
|
|
Robert W. Schiff
|
Columbus, Ohio, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Rabbi Henry Schilli
|
France
|
Chaplain General AGDE and Argeles Camps
[Lazare 1996.
Poznanski 2001.
Samuel 2002.]
|
|
Josef Schleich
|
Graz, Austria
|
Smuggled Jews out of Austria
Worked with Recha Freier (Youth Aliyah)
|
|
Joseph Schlesinger (1900-1981)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader Mizrahi
Member Rescue and Relief Committee of Budapest
Eretz Israel Committee (PAL AMT)
[Gur 2007. P.213]
|
|
Ruhama Schlesinger (Rózsi Weisz) (1905-1988)
|
Budapest Hungary
|
Mizrahi
Wife of Joseph Schlesinger
[Gur 2007. P.214]
|
|
Nurit Schlesinger (Hedy Fleischer) (b.1927)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Rescue and relief activist
[Gur 2007. P.214]
|
|
Yaffe Gabriel Schlesinger (1896-1979)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Founder, Chairman, Young Mizrahi
Vice Chairman, Keren Kayemet Le Israel
Comptroller, Rescue and Relief Committee
Eretz-Israel Committee (PAC-AMT)
[Gur 2007. P.214]
|
|
Ziszl Schlesinger (Eugénia Herskovitz) (1896-1975)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Mizrahi
Rescue activist with husband Yaffe Schlesinger
[Gur 2007. P.215]
|
|
Joseph Schlossberg
|
New York City, New York, USA
|
Vice chairman, Jewish Labor Committee (JLC)
National chairman, National Labor Committee for Palestine
|
|
J. Schmetterer
|
Transylvania
|
Committee for the Aid of Jewish Refugees from Northern Transylvania (Comitetul de asistentá a refugiatilor evrei din Ardealut de Nord)
|
|
Isser Schmidt
|
Vilna, Lithuania
|
Partisan commander of Ha-Nokem (Avenger) Battalion with Abba Kovner
Took in escaped Jews
|
|
Marie Schmolka
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde)
National Coordinating Committee
Committee for Aid for Refugees from Germany, JDC Respresentative, HIAS-HICEM Representative
Jewish Colonization Association
Jewish Aid Committee
Social worker
[Dagan 1984. Vol. 1,2,3
Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Dr. Emil Schmorak (1886-1953)
|
Istanbul, Turkey; Palestine
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
“Committee of Four”
Committee for Polish Jewry
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Shlomo Schmuelevich (Shamagar)
|
Lisbon, France
|
Rescue activist
[Porat p.142]
|
|
George Schneck
|
Southern France
|
Physical Education, Éducation Physique
[Lazare 1996.]
|
|
David Schneeberg
|
New York, USA
|
Executive secretary, American Committee for Relief and Resettlement of Yemenite Jews
|
|
Professor Fischel Schneersohn (1885-1957)
|
Palestine
|
Executive committee, Al-Domi (No Silence)
Rescue activist
|
|
Rabbi Menachem Schneersohn
|
USA
|
Orthodox rescue and relief activist
|
|
Isaac Schneersohn
|
France
|
Founder, Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDJF ; Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaire)
[Adler 1987.
Lazare 1996.
Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
Max J. Schneider
|
USA
|
Vice president, United Galician Jews of America
|
|
Harry Schneiderman
|
New York, USA
|
Assistant secretary, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
[AJC Yearbook]
|
|
Tema Schneiderman* (Alias Wanda Majewska)
|
Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania
|
Underground courier between ghettoes; girlfriend of Mordechai Tenenbaum
Warned Jews of mass executions
Murdered in Treblinka
[Yad Vashem Archives]
|
|
Nathan Schoenfeld
|
New York, USA
|
Associate treasurer, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS)
[HIAS Archives, Yivo]
|
|
Marco Schoky
|
Ljubljana, Slovenia; Modena, Italy
|
Helped rescue Jewish children of Vila Emma at Nonantola, near Modena, Italy
[Voigt 2005.]
|
|
Vojtech Schön
|
Terezin Ghetto, Prague, Czeckoslovakia
|
Member, Council of Elders, Terezin Ghetto
Assistant to Jacob Edelstein
|
|
József Schonberger (Joseph “Yusuf” Ben Porat) (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Dept. A of International Red Cross, took care of Jewish children
[Gur 2007. P.56]
|
|
Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld (1912-1982)
|
England
|
Important rescue advocate and leader
[JDC Archives, NY
Kranzler 1982.]
|
|
Willy Schonfeld
|
Bohemia-Moravia, Czechoslovakia
|
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde), Vocational Counseling
[Dagan
Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Haim Benjamin Schonwald (b.1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Rescued Jews wearing Arrow Cross insignia
Worked out of Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.215]
|
|
Mrs. A. P. Schoolman
|
New York City, New York, USA
|
Secretary, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (WZO)
|
|
Chief Rabbi Professor Schorr
|
Poland
|
Chairman, General Relief Committee for Jewish Refugees from Germany in Poland
[Tartkower 1944. Pp.488-489]
|
|
Faiwel Schrager
|
France
|
Member, Coordinating Committee of Jewish Immigrant Organizations, MOI and CGD
Federation of French Jewish Organizations (FSJF)
Bund official
|
|
Herrz Naftali Schuldenfrei
|
Nonantola, Italy
|
Helped save Jewish children at Villa Emma at Nonantola
|
|
Samuel Schulman
|
USA
|
American Representatives of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
American Jewish Congress
|
|
Shlomo Schultz* (d.1944)
|
Budapest
|
Beitar
Saved Jews while posing as an Arrow Cross soldier
Caught and murdered
[Gur 2007. P.215]
|
|
E. Schupakevitz
|
Far East
|
Representative for Palestine Commission (Yishuv)
Arranged for escape routes
|
|
Heinz Schuster
|
Bohemia-Moravia, Czechoslovakia
|
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde), Labor Office
He Halutz
[Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Nathan Schwalb (b. 1908)
|
Geneva, Switzerland
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
World He Halutz Center, Geneva, Switzerland, 1939-1945
[Friling 2005.
Wagman-Eshkoli 1998.]
|
|
Stefan Schwamm (Alias “Monsieur Bernard Lioré”)
|
Italy
|
DELASEM (Aid Commission for Jewish Refugees; Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti)
Helped save Jews in Rome
[Leboucher 1969.
Waagenaar 1974.]
|
|
Isaïe Schwarts
|
France
|
Chief Rabbi of Paris
Central Consistory, Paris – Vichy
Rescue and relief activist
[Adler 1987.
Lazare 1996.
Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
Amikam Schwartz
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonim
[Gur 2007. P.216]
|
|
Ernö Schwartz (b.1925) (Prof. Menachem Tzvi Kadari)
|
Hungary
|
Leader Bnei Akiva, Tiyul rescue operations
[Gur 2007. P.138]
|
|
Ervin Schwartz (Dov Shimoni)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader, Shimoni Group
Maintained vital hospital for Jews in Budapest
[Gur 2007. P.222]
|
|
Frigyes (Shaye) Schwartz* (1927-1944)
|
Munkacs, Budapest, Hungary
|
Beitar
Distributed forged papers
Murdered in Budapest in 1944
[Gur 2007. P.216]
|
|
György Schwartz* (d.1944)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Beitar
Underground activist
Murdered in 1944
[Gur 2007. P.216]
|
|
Heinrich Schwartz*
|
Slovakia
|
Head of Jewish Office, Ustredna Zidov (UZ)
[Dagan 1984.]
|
|
Herta Schwartz (Goren) (b.1931)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonim
Distributed forged documents
[Gur 2007. P.113]
|
|
Jean Claude Schwartz
|
France
|
Solidarity (Solidatiré), Youth section
Youth Section Leadership
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
Joseph J. Schwartz (1899-1975)
|
USA, Europe
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); executive staff, 1939-1940; vice chairman, 1940-1941; chairman, 1942-1949; Director, European Activities, WWII
[Cohen 1987.
JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Lázló Schwartz (Eliyahu Sagi) (1924-1984)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped Jews escape from Slovakia
Distributed Swiss protective papers
Rescued Jews, posed as Hungarian soldier
[Gur 2007. P.204]
|
|
Liuba Schwartz
|
Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania
|
Rescued children from Kovno ghetto, Spring 1944
[Neshamit pp.318-320]
|
|
Lotte Schwartz
|
France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants) Shelter, Chaumont
[Lazare 1996.]
|
|
Rosa Rachel Schwartz
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Youth Social Welfare Office; helped 2,844 children to emigrate
[Fraenkel 1967.]
|
|
Samu (Shmuel Arie) Schwartz (1894-1953)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Aided refugees from Slovakia
Tiyul activist
Employee of Swiss Glass House
Distributed forged Aryan documents
[Gur 2007. P.217]
|
|
Sophie Schwartz
|
France
|
Rescue activist, Solidarity, (Solidarité) leader
[Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
Ulysses S. Schwartz
|
Chicago, Illinois, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Vera Schwartz (Raphel “Rahelka” Keshet)
|
|
|
|
Dr. Ignacy I. Schwarzbart (Szwarcbart), (1888-1961)
|
London, England
|
Jewish representative of Polish government in exile; Zionist, 1940-1945
|
|
Getzl (Gecel) Schwartzman*
|
Tuczyn Ghetto
|
Chairman, Tuczyn Ghetto Council
Incited Jews to fight and escape; acquired arms, set fire to ghetto
Shot and killed
|
|
Wm. H. Schwarzchild
|
Richmond, Virginia, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Arnold Schwefelberg
|
Romania
|
Jewish Coordinating Council
Refugee Aid Committee
Worked with Wilhelm Filderman
[Ancel 1986. Vol 5,8]
|
|
Moshe Schweiger (Dr. Bar-Tzvi) (1905-1963)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv); Mizrahi
Head of Committee for Defense of Zionist Youth Movements, Budapest
Ihud Mapai
Arrested, deported to Mauthausen
[Braham 1981.
Cohen 1986. P.31
Gur 2007. P.51]
|
|
David K. Schweitzer (b. 1886)
|
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); oversease staff, 1920-1942; Eurexco vice chairman, 1926-1939; JDC Recon. Found., vice manager director, 1928-1940; Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA) manager, 1941-1942
American Joint Reconstruction Foundation (1939-1941)
[JDC Archives, NY
Tartakower 1944.]
|
|
Oszkárné (Shoshana) Schweitzer (1902-1978)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Mizrahi
Aided refugees from Poland
[Gur 2007. P.217]
|
|
Yitzhak Schwersenz
|
Berlin, Germany
|
Zionist Youth leader
Halutz
Created Chug Chalutzi (Zionist Circle), a rescue and relief organization
[Daring to Resist p.26]
|
|
Murray Seasongood
|
Cincinati, Ohio, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Arpád Sebestyén
|
Slovakia
|
Head of the Jewish Office (Ústredna Zidov; UZ), September 1941
|
|
Edit Sechter (Ester Vardi) (b.1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Obtained and distributed protective papers
Arrested, deported to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, survived
[Gur 2007. P.240]
|
|
Louis Segal
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Co-chairman, National Labor Committee for Palestine
|
|
Zvi (Herman) Segal
|
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Dr. Frantisek Seidmann
|
Czeckoslovakia
|
Chairman, Association of Czechoslovak Immigrants (Hitachdut Oley Tshekhoslovakia)
[Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Otto Seidmann
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”), Perl Transport
Member, Betar Party
[Perl 1978.]
|
|
Pierre Seligman
|
France
|
Central Consistory Legal Commission
[Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
Eustace Seligman
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Chairman, National Coordinating Committee (NCC)
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Herbert J. Seligman
|
USA
|
Public information depart director, 1935-1938, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Julius Seligson*
|
Germany
|
Governing Board, Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland
Defied Nazis, was murdered
|
|
Bernard Semel
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Werner Senator
|
Germany
|
Central Committee of German Jews for Relief and Reconstruction (Zentralausschus der Deutschen Juden für Hilfe und Aufbau)
|
|
Samuel Sequerra
|
Barcelona, Spain
Lisbon, Portugal
|
Rescue and relief activist; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
HIAS-HICEM
Portugese Commission for the Assistance of Jewish Refugees
[HIAS Archives, Yivo
JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Isaac Serebnitzki
|
Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto, Lithuania
|
Underground resistance
Representative of Jewish Council
|
|
Robert Serebrenik
|
Luxembourg
|
Aided in relief and rescue
|
|
Police Chief Serebriansk
|
Minsk Ghetto
|
Chief of Jewish police, Minsk Ghetto
Helped Jews escape ghetto
|
|
Enzo Sereni* (1905-1944)
|
Italy, Iraq, Germany, Palestine
|
He Halutz, Germany; helped young Jews
Youth Aliya
Worked on Havarah Agreement
Protected Jews in Iraq
Yishuv mission to Northern Italy
Murdered in Dachau
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Julius Shafer
|
Seattle, Washington, USA
|
Vice president, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS)
[HIAS Archives, Yivo]
|
|
Vladimir Shah
|
Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium
|
Council Member Union of French Jews (UGIF-S)
HIAS, BEL-HICEM, representative
[Cohen 1987.
Ginzberg 1942.
HIAS Archives, Yivo]
|
|
Lea Shahar (Leya Weisz) (1927-2007)
|
Hungary
|
Dror Habonim
Tiyul rescue Activist
[Gur 2007.p.215]
|
|
Mor (Moshe) Shapira (1920-2004)
|
Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped refugees from Slovakia
Arrested, imprisoned, and escaped from detention camp. Later caught and deported to Auschwitz, survived
[Gur 2007. P.220]
|
|
Moshe Shapira (Moshe Chaim), (1902-1970)
|
Palestine
|
Joint Rescue Committee, Jewish Agency for Palestine
Committee for the Jews of Occupied Europe
JAE
Immigration Department, Jewish Agency for Palestine, co-leader with E. Dobkin, 1935-1945
“Committee of Four”
Hopo’el Hamizrahi
|
|
Yaakov Shapira
|
Northern Italy
|
Yishuv, partisan, rescuer; Parachutist
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Shapiro (American Citizen)
|
France
|
Arrested, Interned
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
Tzionit Sharoni (Rózsi Weisz) (1924-2000)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist.
[Gur 2007. P.220]
|
|
Yitzchat Shatan
|
Brussels, Belgium
|
Head, Palestine Office, Brussels
Underground activist
[Michmann 1998. Pp.401-413]
|
|
David S. Shecket
|
USA
|
Chairman, Tel-Hai Fund, Inc.
|
|
Reuvan Shefer
|
Tehran, Iran
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Professor Joseph Sheffer
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Rescue activist
Maccabi Hatzair
He Haults rescue and resistance
Assistant to Otto Komoly of the ICRC
[Cohen 1986. P.240]
|
|
Dr. Yisrael Sheib (Eldad)
|
Vilna, Lithuania
|
Produced forged visas
|
|
Alferd Shemanski
|
Seattle, Washington, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Rahel Shemer (Olga Löwy) (b.1927)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Procured and distributed Aryan Documents from Population Registry
[Gur 2007. Pp.220-221]
|
|
Bernard Shelvin
|
USA; Europe
|
HIAS representative to Europe, 1936-1937
[HIAS Archvies, Yivo]
|
|
Mr. Meir Shenkolesski
|
New York, USA
|
Agudath Israel, World Organization
|
|
Joseph Shenhauv (Joseph Weisz) (b.1930)
|
Budapest
|
Dror Harmonium
“Joined” Arrow Cross
Distributed Swiss Protective Papers, courier
[Gur 2007. P.221]
|
|
B. Sheps
|
Canada
|
President, Western Division Canadian Jewish Congress
Rescue and relief activist
|
|
Morris Sherer
|
New York, USA
|
Agudath Israel Youth Counicl of America
|
|
Bazalel Sherman
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Vice chairman, Jewish Labor Committee (JLC)
|
|
Carl Sherman
|
New York, USA
|
Chairman, administrative committee, American Jewish Congress
|
|
I.H. Sherman
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC, Member, Emergency Administration Committee
|
|
Arthur Sherr
|
New York, USA
|
Vice chairman, American Committee for the Relief and Resettlement of Yemenite Jews
|
|
Berl Shershenevski
|
Vilna, Lithuania
|
Partisan commander, “Death to Fascism” and “The Struggle” Battalions
Took in escaped Jews
|
|
Moshe Shertock (Sharett), (1894-1965)
|
Turkey; Palestine
|
Political Department, Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Head, Jewish Agency Political Department, 1933-1948
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Zipporah Shertock
|
Tehran, Iran
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Dov Shimoni (Erin Schwartz) (b.1919)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Founder Shimoni Group
Founded and maintained Jewish Hospitals which served as refuges for Jews
[Gur 2007. P.221]
|
|
Ze’ev Shind (Dani) (1909-1953)
|
Poland; Greece; Istanbul, Turkey
|
Mossad Aliyah Bet, 1935-1939
Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar
Jewish Agency Representative Poland 1935-1939
Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency in Turkey, Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv), 1942-1944
[Friling 2005.
Ofer 1990.
Porat 1990. P.317]
|
|
Eli Shlomovitz (Shalev) (1922-1979)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonim
He Haultz Rescue and Resistance, Command Bunker
Arrested by Arrow Cross December 1944.
[Cohen 1986. Pp.198, 232-233
Gur 2007. P.219]
|
|
Samuel Shore
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Eliezer Shostak (b. 1911)
|
Palestine
|
Member, Rescue Committee, Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1943-1945
[Ofer 1990.]
|
|
Sholomo Zalman Shragai
|
Palestine
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Zionist executive
Va’ad Le’ummi (National Council of Jews in Palestine)
Executive committee, Al-Domi (No Silence)
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Velvel Shreibman
|
Pruzana Ghetto
|
Vice Chairman, Pruzana Ghetto Jewish Council; promoted resistance and escape
[Trink 1972. Pp.446,466]
|
|
William J. Shroder
|
Cincinati, Ohio, USA
|
Vice chairman, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Miss Shultz
|
USA
|
American Jewish Congress
Rescue advocate
|
|
Shlomo Shvertok*
|
Swierzen Nowy Ghetto
|
Former secretary, Nowy Ghetto
Tried to procure arms for underground
Arrested, deported and murdered
|
|
Dudley D. Sicher
|
USA
|
Board of directors, 1934-1938, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Tzvi “Sidi” Seidenfeld (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader, Bnei Akiva
Worked in Swiss Glass House
Arrested and escaped
[Gur 2007. P.218]
|
|
Jacob Siegal
|
Chicago, Illinois, USA
|
Vice chairman, Jewish Labor Committee (JLC)
|
|
Manuel Siegel
|
South America; Cuba; USA; Shanghai, China
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) representative, South America, 1933-1950; Cuba, 1940-1945; Shanghai, 1941-1945
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Denise Siekiershi
|
Southern France
|
Jewish rescuer
|
|
Mendel B. Silberberg
|
Los Angeles, California, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Dr. Abraham Silberschein (1882-1951)
|
Geneva, Switzerland
|
Director in Europe, Relief Committee for the War-stricken Jewish Population (RELICO)
|
|
Carl Silberstein
|
Switzerland
|
Rescue and relief activist
[Häsler 1969.]
|
|
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963)
|
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
|
President, Zionist Organization of America
National chairman, United Palestine Appeal
Vice president, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
Co-chair, American Zionist Emergency Council
Co-chair, Palestine Foundation Fund, Inc.
Major rescue activist and leader
[Kranzler]
|
|
Eliezer Silver
|
New York, USA
|
President, Agudas Israel of America, Inc.
|
|
Archibald Silverman
|
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Robert Silverman
|
New York, USA
|
Associate secretary, Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod), Inc.
|
|
Sidney Silverman
|
Great Britain
|
Member of Parliament (MP)
Rescue advocate, lobbied Parliament
|
|
Édouard and Chatta Simon
|
Southern France
|
Directors, Moissac children’s shelter
[Lazare 1996.
Samuel 2002.]
|
|
Adina Simon
|
Netherlands, France
|
Rescuer, wife of Joachim Simon
Children Aid Rescue Society: OSE
Zionist Youth Movement:MJS
|
|
Ben L. Simon
|
|
Staff, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1931-1938
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Joachim “Shushu” Simon*
|
Netherlands, France
|
Youth Aliya House, Loosdrecht, Holland
Children Aid Rescue Society: OSE
Zionist Youth Movement:MJS
Rescuer with the Westerweel Group
Member, Palestine Pioneers Rescue Group
Guided Jews across Belgian Border
Captured by Nazis, killed self
[Presser 1969.]
|
|
Julius Simon
|
USA
|
President, Palestine Economic Corporation
|
|
Kai Simonsen
|
Denmark
|
Secretary, Committee of the 4th of May, 1933
Rescue and relief activist
[Yahil 1969.]
|
|
Jacob Sincoff
|
USA
|
Associate treasurer, United Palestine Appeal
|
|
Edit Singer (Hadasa Hantos) (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Worked in Swiss Glass House
Arrested by Arrow Cross
[Gur 2007 p.126]
|
|
Józseph (Joseph) Singer (1923-1997)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonium
Underground activist, worked on protective bunkers
Captured and tortured, escaped
[Gur 2007. P.222]
|
|
Dr. Oskar Singer
|
Bohemia-Moravia, Czechoslovakia
|
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde), Publications Department
[Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Dr. Samuel Singher
|
Bucharest, Romania
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), HIAS-ICA
[Ginzberg 1942. P.94
HIAS Archives, Yivo
JDC Archives, NY[
|
|
Philip Skornek
|
USA
|
Executive staff, 1944-1949, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
|
|
Roman Slobodin
|
USA
|
Publicity staff, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1941
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Eli Slomovics (Eli Shalev) (1922-1979)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonim
Underground activist, initiated bunkers in Budapest, fighter
Captured and escaped from Arrow Cross
[Gur 2007. P.219]
|
|
Benjamin Slor
|
Denmark
|
Zionist
Committee for Jewish Agricultural Studies
Trained/prepared Danish Jews for emigration to Palestine
[Yahil 1969.]
|
|
M. C. Sloss
|
San Francisco, California, USA
|
Vice chairman, Baord of Directors, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Maria Smolka*
|
Prague, Czechoslovakia
|
HIAS-ICA representative in Czechoslovakia
Helped Jews emigrate and escape
[HIAS Archives, Yivo
Wischnitzer 1956.]
|
|
Louis H. Sobel
|
South America; USA
|
Representative, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); assistant secretary, 1944-1946, 1947
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Sigmond I. Sobel
|
USA
|
Secretary, United Galician Jews of America
|
|
Moshe Sneh
|
Vilna, Lithuania
|
Worked in Palestine Office of the Jewish Adency in Vilna, Lithuania
Helped Jews escape to Palestine
[Bauer 1981.]
|
|
Emil Somer
|
France
|
Solidarity, Youth Section
Trade Union Activist
|
|
Lév Sonnenberg
|
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist
Arrested, sent to Ukraine, perished
[Gur 2007. P.224.]
|
|
Hersh Smolar (Alias: Yefin Stolervitch)
|
Minsk Ghetto
|
Founder, Head, Minsk Ghetto Underground
Helped many Jews escape ghetto
[Suhl pp.231-240]
|
|
Pierre Smolinski
|
France
|
Solidarity Youth Section
UGIF employee
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
Solomon (no first name given)
|
|
Jewish escapee from Koziel Camp near Auschwitz, reported on murder of Jews to Jewish leaders in Southern France
|
|
André Solomon
|
France
|
Entr’aide Français Israélite (EFI)
|
|
György Robert Solti* (1926-1945)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Distributed forged documents
Hid children
Caught and murdered
[Gur 2007. P.222]
|
|
Raphel Sólymón (Zsuzsanna Grunberger) (b.1925)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Obtained and distributed Aryan Protective Papers
[Gur 2007. P.223]
|
|
Sándor Somló “Uncle Somlo” (b.1880)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Opposed Jewish Council to illegally send out information on departion
Member, Gordon Circle
Helped procure food and supplies for Jews in camps and ghetto
Arrested and jailed
Helped rescue Jews from Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania
[Braham 1981. P.630
Cohen 1986. Pp.183-184
Gur 2007. P.223
Yahil 1969. Pp.214-216]
|
|
Zsuzsa Somló (Shosha Böér) (b.1929)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist, courier, rescuer, distributed forged papers
[Gur 2007. P.67]
|
|
David Sompolinsky
|
Copenhagen, Denmark
|
Rescue activist, Leader Oct. 1943
|
|
Dr. Albert Sondheimer
|
|
American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
[JDC Archives, New York]
|
|
Mrs. Liesel “Sonnenkind”-Kant
|
Vienna
|
Officer, Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”) – Perl Transport
[Perl 1978.]
|
|
Settimio Sorani
|
Rome, Italy
|
Executive Committee, DELASEM (Aid Commission for Jewish Refugees; Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti)
Protected Jews in Rome
[Leboucher 1969.
Sarfatti 2006.
Waagenaar 1974.]
|
|
Ben Sorin
|
Minsk Ghetto
|
Forged ID and other documents
|
|
Suzanna Spaak
|
France
|
Leader, National Movement Against Racism (Mouvement National Contre le Racisme ; MNCR)
Organized childrens rescue network
[Lazare 1996.
Latour 1970.
Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Raphaël Spanien
|
Casablanca, North Africa; Marseilles, France; Italy
|
Member of the Council of the General Union of French Jews (UGIF-South)
Rescue and relief activist; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Headed HIAS-ICA office, Casablanca and Marseilles offices, November 1944 set up offices in Rome, Napes, and Bari
[Cohen 1987.
Ginzberg 1942.
JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Michael Speilman
|
Shanghai, China
|
Head of Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai (CAEJF)
[Kranzler]
|
|
Dorothy L. Speiser
|
USA
|
Executive staff, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1921-1968
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Mauricio Speyer
|
Montivideo, Uruguay
|
Association Filantropica Israelita (AFI)
|
|
Modie J. Spiegel
|
Chicago, Ill, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Sandor “Sanyi” Spiegel
|
Ungvar & Budapest, Hungary
|
Bnei Akiva
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.225]
|
|
Fritz Spielman
|
Austria
|
Head of Committee of Jews in Opole
Maccabi, arranged for emigration from Austria to Bolivia
|
|
László Spitzer (Somló) (b.1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Shimoni Group
Dept. A International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC)
[Gur 2007. P.225]
|
|
Sima Spitzer*
|
Yugoslavia; Baltic countries
|
Secretary, Union of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia
Secretary, Hilfskomite für Jüdische Flüchtlinge, Belgrade
Union of Jewish Communities
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything) – Perl Transport
[Ofer 1990. P.48
Perl 1979.]
|
|
Georges Spolianski*
|
Nice, France
|
Underground Committee of UJRE in Nice
Arrested by Germans, tortured and killed
[Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Sámuel (Shumuel) Springmann
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv); Ichud
[Brahan 1981.
Cohen 1986.
Friling 2005.]
|
|
Srebrianski*
|
Minsk (Byelorussia)
|
Minsk Jewish Council (Police Commandant); promoted escape (rescue) from ghetto; shot
[Trunk 1972. P.466,522]
|
|
Abraham Srere
|
Detroit, Michigan, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Heinrich Stahl
|
Berlin, Germany
|
Reich Union, community leader
Deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
[Levin 1968. P.186]
|
|
William G. Stanton
|
New York City, New York, USA
|
Chairman, National Executive Board, American Friends of a Jewish Palestine
|
|
Laszlo (Moshe) Stark (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist
Imprisoned and escaped several times
[Gur 2007. P.225]
|
|
Avraham Stavsky
|
Latvia; Greece; Poland; Baltic countries
|
Mossad Aliyah Bet
NZO/Betar
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”), Perl Transport
[Ofer 1990.
Perl 1978.]
|
|
Arik Stein
|
Slonim Ghetto, Zhabinka District, Belorussia
|
Armed partisan underground leader, Antifascist Committee
Helped Jews escape ghetto
Liberated Kosovo Jews, October 1943
|
|
Kalman Stein
|
London; New York
|
Representation of Polish Jewry
World Jewish Congress
Polish Government in Exile, 1943-1945
|
|
Karl Stein
|
Bohemia-Moravia, Czechoslovakia
|
Jewish community leader
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde), Department of Provinces
Confidential representative, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY
Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Margot Stein
|
Southern France
|
OSE, Center – Hotel Bompart
Childrens Aid Rescue Society
[Samuel 2002.]
|
|
Nathan M. Stein
|
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Andrei (Ondrej) Steiner (b. 1908)
|
Slovakia
|
Leader, Working Group (Pracovná Skupina)
Nebenregierung
Jewish Center Ustrendna Zidov (UZ), Department of Labor and Construction
[Dagan 1984. Vol.3 pp.205,248]
|
|
Hanna Steiner*
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde)
Leader, Jewish Aid Committee
President, Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
Leader, Committee for Aid for Refugees from Germany
Killed in Auschwitz in 1944
[Dagan 1984. Vol 1,2,3
Rothkirchen 2005.]
|
|
Hermann (“Tzvi Bebi”) Steiner (1922-2005)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Staff Department, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Forged documents, distributed Swiss Schutzpasse and vital supplies to the ghettos
[Gur 2007. P.226]
|
|
László Yitzhak “Itzki” Steiner (1925-2006)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.227]
|
|
Miriam Steiner (Bernson) (1928-2001)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.226]
|
|
Julius Steinfeld
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”), Perl Transport
Organized ship transports
[Perl 1978. Pp.116-117]
|
|
Jessie H. Steinhard
|
San Francisco, California, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Laurence Steinhardt
|
USA
|
United States Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1934-1943, and Turkey, 1943-1945; rescue advocate-activist
Worked with Ira Hirschmann, War Refugee Board (WRB)
[Hirschman]
|
|
Sholomo Steinhorn (“Pierre Lacaze”)
|
Southern France; Toulouse
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Armée Julif, Jewish Army
Rescue leader, Zionist Underground
[JDC Archives, NY
Porat 1990. P.113]
|
|
Shmuel Steinmetz (1923-1999)
|
|
Dror Habonim
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.227]
|
|
Adorján Stella
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Clothes Collecting Company
Section I, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
[Braham 1981. P.998]
|
|
Hon. Adolph Stern
|
USA
|
HIAS board of directors, 1933-1939
Rescue activist
[HIAS Archives, Yivo
Wischnitzer 1956.]
|
|
David “Duda” Stern* (1915-1945)
|
Slovakia
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Aided refugees from Slovakia
Deported to death camp, shot in death march
[Gur 2007. P.228]
|
|
Edgar B. Stern
|
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Eva Stern* (1913-1944) (Eva Friedl)
|
Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped refugees in Arad
Drowned on illegal aliya ship ‘Mafkura’
[Gur 2005.]
|
|
Henri Stern (Haim Shaanan) (b.1922)
|
|
|
|
Henry M. Stern
|
Rochester, NY, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Horace Stern
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
|
Vice chairman, American Representatives of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
Board of Directors, JDC
[Friling 2005.
JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Ignác (Yitzhak “Igi”) Stern (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Distributed protective documents, food, and supplies from Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.228]
|
|
Juliette Stern
|
Paris, France
|
General Council of French Jews (Union Général des Israélites de France, Service Five, Illegal Activities; UGIF) North Leader Group III
WIZO – Women’s International Zionist Organization
Worked with Eugene Minkowski
Arrested, escaped
[Adler 1987.
Cohen 1987.
Poznanski 2001.
Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Morton S. Stern
|
Newark, NJ, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Samuel Stern
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Head of Jewish Reform movement (NEOLOG)
president of the Jewish Council (Zsido Tanacs)
[Braham 1981.]
|
|
Margit Girl Sternberg (1888-1975)
|
Hungary
|
Founder Mizrahi Women in Hungary, activist
[Gur 2007. Pp.229-230]
|
|
Yonatan Zvulon Sternberg (1880-1945)
|
|
Underground leader
Founder Mizrachi
[Gur 2007. P.229]
|
|
Eli Sternbuch
|
Switzerland
|
Brother of Yitzchor Sternbuch
[Friedenson 1984.
Kranzler 1987.]
|
|
Recha and Isaac Sternbuch
|
Geneva, Switzerland
|
Relief Organization for Jewish Refugees Abroad (in Shanghai; Hilfsverein für Jüdische Fluchtlinge)
Rescue Committee of the Orthodox Rabbis in the United States (Va’ad Hatsala; Emergency Committee for War Torn Yeshivot)
HIJEFS, secretary
Worked with Philip Bernadini and Consul Julius Kuhl
[Friedenson 1984.
Kranzler 1987.]
|
|
Leo Sternheim
|
Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania
|
Yeshiva student, arranged for Dutch visas to Curacao
|
|
Ida Sterno
|
Belgium
|
Founder of the Jewish Defense Committee that rescued Jews.
|
|
Agnes Steuer (Lajila Arnstein) (b.1929) (Alias: Horváth Éva)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonium
Dept. A International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Helped refugees from Slovakia, distributed protective documents
[Gur 2007. P.230]
|
|
Andrew E. Stevens (Endre Steinberger (Alias: Endre Sólyom)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Forged and distributed protective papers
Worked for Red Cross
[Gur 2007. P.230]
|
|
Zsuzsa Steiner (Shoshana Barzel) (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Helped refugees from slovakia
Distributed Aryan and forged documents.
Warned Jews in ghettos in Hungarian provinces
[Gur 2007. P.53]
|
|
Toni Stern
|
Paris, France
|
UGIF-North Board, Social Services, United Defense Committee
[Adler 1987.
Lazare 1996.]
|
|
Mikulas (Miklos) Sternfeld
|
Bratislava
|
Committee of Bratislava
[Braham 1981. P.714]
|
|
Ernest Stiassy
|
USA
|
Chairman, American Council of Jews from Austria
|
|
Abraham Stiller
|
Helsinki, Finland
|
Refugee Committee of Finish Jews
Helsinki Jewish Congregation
Successfully lobbied Finnish official to prevent deportations
[Friedman p.281
Rautkallio 1987.]]
|
|
Lajos Stöckler
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Jewish Council (Zsido Tanacs)
Prominent rescue activist-advocate
[Braham 1981.]
|
|
Elihu D. Stone
|
USA
|
Co-chairman, United Palestine Appeal
|
|
Marcel Stora*
|
Occupied zone, France
|
General Union of French Jews (UGIF-North) Leader Group I
Deported and killed in Auschwitz
[Adler 1987.
Cohen 1987.
Poznanski 2001.
Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Gillel Storch
|
Stockholm, Sweden
|
Chairman, World Jewish Congress (WJC) Swedish office
[Koblik 1988. P.50]
|
|
Hillel Storch
|
Austria
Germany
|
Rescued Jews in Nazi occupied areas including Germany and Austria
[Penkower 1983.]
|
|
Berthold (Bernard) Storfer*
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Founder and leader, Stern Bureau; Aliyah organizer
Disappeared, presumed killed
Arranged for immigration papers for Jews
Worked with Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”)
Perl Transport
[Levin 1968.
Ofer 1990.
Perl 1978.]
|
|
Joseph Storfer
|
Bucharest, Romania
|
Rescue activist, brother of Berthold Storfer
|
|
Irwin Strasburger
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Hugh Grant Straus
|
Brooklyn, NY, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Mrs. Roger W. Straus
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Lewis Strauss
|
|
Member of subcommittee, High Commissioner for Refugees (League of Nations)
|
|
Lewis L. Strauss
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Council for German Jewry, London; Central Council for Jewish Refugees, London
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Nathan Strauss
|
New York, USA
|
Pilanthropist
Hon. Chairman, United Palestine Appeal
|
|
Robert Strickler
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Vice president, Jewish Community, Zionist leader
Arrested by Nazis, deported to Auschwitz
|
|
Mira Strogin
|
Minsk (Byelorussia)
|
Minsk Jewish Council, Labor Department; facilitated escape
|
|
Allan M. Strook
|
USA
|
Chair, German-Jewish Children’s Aid; European-Jewish Children’s Aid, 1941-1943
|
|
Sol M. Strook
|
New York, USA
|
President, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
|
|
Lewis Strurs
|
USA
|
American Jewish Congress
Refugee activist
[Zucker 2008.]
|
|
Dr. Mendel Sudarsky
|
Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania
|
Board of directors, Hebrew Immigrant Aid & Sheltering Society (HIAS)
[HIAS Archives, Yivo]
|
|
György Sugár (Avraham Karni)
|
Kolozsvár, Hungary (Budapest)
|
Dror Habonim
Warned Jews and organized rescue in provinces and in Budapest
[Gur 2007.]
|
|
Edward A. Suisman
|
Hartford, Conn., USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Walter Süsskind*
|
Amsterdam, Netherlands
|
Member of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam. Member of the Expositur, coordinating the emigration of Jews. Destroyed Jewish index and registration cards. Rescued between 750-1,000 Jewish children from deportation.
Sent to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz with his family. All were murdered.
|
|
Rachmil Sullader
|
Southern France
|
Zionist Resistance, rescue activist
|
|
Victor Sullader
|
Southern France
|
Zionist Resistance, rescue activist
|
|
David H. Sulzberger
|
USA; England
|
Greater New York Comm. For the Aid of German Refugees
Representative, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in England, 1943
Chairman of exec. Committee, National Refugee Service, Inc.
|
|
Frank Sulzberger
|
Chicago, Illinois, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Leon C. Sinstein
|
Philadelphia, PA, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Yehoshua Suprasky
|
Palestine
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Va’ad Le’ummi (National Council of Jews in Palestine)
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Abraham Sutzkever
|
Soviet Union
|
Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC)
|
|
Victor Svarg (“Souvard”)
|
Lyon, France
|
Leader, Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants), Children’s Relief Section, East Central Division
[Klarsfeld 1985.]
|
|
Dr. Sweiger
|
Budapst, Hungary
|
Jewish Resistance
|
|
Nachman Swirski
|
Horodok
|
Treasurer, Horodok Jewish Council, promoted escape and rescue
[Trunk 1972. P.465]
|
|
Dr. Aron Syngalowski
|
France
Switzerland
|
Rescue and relief worker
Organization for Rehabilitation and Training of Jews (ORT)
[Häsler 1969.]
|
|
Israel (Jisráel) “Rebe” Szabó (1918-2003)
|
Romania
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Rescue activist
[Gur 2007. P.231]
|
|
Raphael Szafar
|
Teheran, Iran
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Organization for Rehabilitation and Training of Jews (ORT)
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Ernö Szalkai
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Relief activist
|
|
Prof. Géza Szamosi (Ya’akov) (b.1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Distributed forged documents
He Halutz Rescue and Resistance
[Cohen 1986. P.225
Gur 2007. P.231]
|
|
Lázló Szamosi
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Helped operate children’s home at 90 Dob Street, Budapest
[Cohen 1981. Pp. 173, 194, 271
Gur 2007. P.232]
|
|
Hedva Szántó (b.1923) (Hedvig Müller)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Rescue and Resistance
Dror Habonim
Assisted refugees from Slovakia
Distributed forged documents
Helped Jews escape from ghetto
[Gur 2007. P.232]
|
|
Shmuel Szántó (b.1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Rescue and Resistance
Dror Habonim
Underground activist
Captured
[Gur 2007. P.233]
|
|
Miklós Szegö*
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Jewish Council (Zsido Tanacs)
Killed
|
|
Marci Székely* (1923-1944)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Rescue and Resistance
Maccabi Hatzair
Underground partisan killed in action in 1944
[Gur 2007. P.233]
|
|
Tibor Szemere
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Resistance
Worked at Swiss legation in Budapest
[Gur 2007.]
|
|
Hava Szendrö (Bruck) (b.1925)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist, captured, tortured
[Gur 2007. Pp.233-234]
|
|
Dr. Károly Szendro (1913-1985)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader, Gordon, Borhov Circles
Management of Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.234]
|
|
Hannah Szenes* (1921-1944)
|
Yugoslavia; Hungary
|
Yishuv partisan, Parachutist
Captured and murdered by Hungarian Arrow Cross, November 7, 1944
[Friling 2005.
Gur 2007. P.235]
|
|
Dr. László Szennik
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Volunteer Ambulance Service of Budapest (BÖME)
Rescued wounded Jews
[Braham 1981. P.986]
|
|
Mr. Rafal Szereszowski
|
|
American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
[JDC Archives, New York]
|
|
Ernö (Zvi) Szilágyi (1898-1973)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv); Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa’ir, Gordon Circle
Vice President, Hungarian Zionist Assn.
Jewish Council (Zsido Tanacs)
Major rescue activist leader
[Braham 1981. Pp.107,939,941
Gur 2007. Pp.235-236]
|
|
Lev (Lajos) Szirtes* (1920-1943)
|
Ujvdiek (Novi Sad)
|
Anti-facist partisan
Killed
[Gur 2007. P.236]
|
|
David Szlamowicz
|
France
|
Activist
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945)
|
USA; Palestine
|
Zionist leader, rescue activist
Founder, Hadassah, 1912
The Women’s Zionist Organization (WZO)
Leader, Youth Aliya, 1933-1945
Hon. Chair, United Palestine Appeal
|
|
Robert Szold
|
New York, USA
|
Officer, Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs
Vice chairman, Palestine Economic Corporation
Vice chairman, American Representatives of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
Vice president, Zionist Organization of America
|
|
Mrs. Robert Szold
|
New York, USA
|
The Women’s Zionist Organization of America (WZO)
|
|
H. Szoszkies
|
USA
|
Vice chairman, Association of Jewish Refugees from Poland
[Cohen 1986. Pp.196,198]
|
|
Szücs
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Resistance
[Cohen p.196]
|
|
Ignacy Swarcbart (1888-1961)
|
London, England
|
Polish National Council, London 1940-1945
Mmber, Polsh SEJM, 1938-1939
Major and relief activist
Advocated rescue effort by allies, worked with Szmuel Zygielbojm
[Braham 1981. Pp.694-696
Posner p.317]
|
|
Yitzak Tabenkin (1887-1971)
|
Palestine
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
[Friling 2005.
Ofer 1990. Pp.8,12]
|
|
Georges Tachnoff
|
France
|
Solidarity Leadership Youth Section
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
Colonel Avram Tadzhler
|
Bulgaria
|
President, Jewish Consistory;
Community leader, former Army officer, rescue advocate
Lobbied Bulgarian government to stop deportations
[Chary 1970. P.94]
|
|
Schmuel Tagansky
|
Palestine
|
Palestine Landing Organization (Irgun) EZEL
|
|
Jean Tancerman
|
France
|
UJRE
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
Solomon Taraszansky
|
Poland, Lithuania
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); Poland, 1932-1939; Lithuania, 1939-1941
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
A. B. Tart
|
USA
|
Executive vide chairman, American ORT Foundation
|
|
Arieh Tartakower (1897-1982)
|
Poland, USA
|
Founder and chairman, Histadrut (General Federation of Jewish Workers), 1922-1939
Secretary general, World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1941
Deputy director, Institute of Jewish Affairs (WJC), 1940-1946
Head of Relief and Rehabilitation, WJC, 1939-1946
Representation of Polish Jewry, WJC
Chairman, Association of Jewish Refugees and Immigrants from Poland
|
|
F. Tauber
|
USA
|
Vice chairman, Association of Jewish Refugees and Immigrants from Poland
|
|
Dr. László Tauber
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Physician, medical relief activist
Appointed by Jewish Council to set up a hospital and medical cae center in Pest Ghetto
[Braham 1981. Pp.851,864]
|
|
Konstanty Tchorznicki
|
Krakow, Poland
|
Head, Central Welfare Council (RGO; Rada Glowna Opiekuncza), October 1943
|
|
Massimo Teglio
|
Genoa, Italy
|
Leader, DELASEM (Aid Commission for Jewish Refugees; Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti) in Genoa after November 1943
Helped save numerous Jews, worked with Catholic clergy and Lay leaders
[Leboucher 1969.
Sarfatti 2006. Pp.208, 393]
|
|
Mayer Teich
|
Transnistria
|
Jewish leader, bribed authorities, interceded with Nazi authorities
Suceava Jewish Council
[Laquer 2001. P.638]
|
|
Bronislaw (Bruce) Teicholtz
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Polish Refugee Committee, head in Budapest
Rescue leader
Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest
World Jewish Congress
[Braham 1981. P.705]
|
|
Efra (Agmon) Teichmann
|
|
He Halutz Resistance (Zionist Youth Resistance)
Rescued Jews in provinces and Jews conscripted in labor battalions
Worked with Swedish Legation
Distributed protective documents
[Braham 1981. Pp.998,1000-1001]
|
|
Aron Teitelbaum
|
New York, New York, USA
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); executive committee, 1921-1932; board of directors, 1931-1944
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Ludwig Teitz
|
Germany
|
National Committee of Jewish Youth Organizations
Executive Secretary, Central Committee of the German Jews for Help and Reconstruction (ZA)
|
|
Mordechai Tenenbaum* (1916-1943)
|
Poland
|
Major Zionist leader youth movement
Leader, Anti-Fascist Fighting group
Leader, organized Jewish Fighting Organization (JFO/ZOB)
Warned Jews of deportations, helped lead resistance in Bialystock Ghetto uprising
Killed
[Holocaust Encyclopedia 1990.]
|
|
Zalman Tenenbaum
|
Poland
|
Chairman of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto Council; promoted rescue
|
|
Samuel A. Telsey
|
New York, USA
|
Director, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS-ICA), delegate and vice president, board of directors
[HIAS Archives, Yivo
Wischnitzer 1956.]
|
|
Nissim Testa
|
Yugoslavia
|
Yishuv Parachutist
Liaison with Yugoslav partisans
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Sigmund Thau
|
USA
|
Vice president, United Galician Jews of America
|
|
David Tiano
|
Salonika, Greece
|
Chief Jewish clerk at USA embassy in Salonika
|
|
Alter Tiktin
|
Naliboki Forest
Novogrudok
|
Bielski Partisan group leader
[TEC]
|
|
Judith Topcha
|
France
|
Leaf Poale-Zion
[Adler 1987.]
|
|
Michel Topiol
|
Southern France
|
Federation of Jewish Associations of France
Dobouchage Committee, Vice President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
Refugee Aid Committee
Federation of Jewish Associations of France
[Latour 1970.
Lazare 1996.]
|
|
Mr. Torczyner
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Maccabi (Youth Aliya)
|
|
Ágnes Tornay (Rahel Deutsch) (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped refugees from Slovakia
Warned Jews in the Hungarian provinces
Wife of Ya’akov Deutsch
[Gur 2007. P.72]
|
|
Mrs. Roman Totenberg
|
New York, USA
|
Chairperson, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Junior Division (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Ester Tov (Erzsébet Scheer) (b.1920)
|
Izbeg, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped elderly Jews
[Gur 2007. P.236]
|
|
Shlomo Travis
|
New York, USA
|
Vice president, Agudas Israel of America
|
|
Mr. Elimelech Tress
|
New York, USA
|
Leader, Zeirei Agudath Israel of America
|
|
Michael G. Tress
|
New York, USA
|
President, Agudath Israel Youth Council of America
|
|
Harold Trobe
|
Lisbon, Portugal
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); Lisbon, 1944-1945; executive staff, 1944-1956
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Jacob Trobe
|
|
Overseas staff, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Senator Jacob Trockenheim
|
|
American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
|
|
|
|
JDC Archives, New York
|
|
Alexander Trocki
|
Marseilles, France
|
Co-director, Marseilles office, HIAS-ICA
[Ginzberg 1942.
HIAS Archives, Yivo, NY]
|
|
Solomon Trone
|
Lisbon, Portugal
|
Overseas staff, Eurexco, Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA), 1939-1940
[Ginzberg 1942. P.184
JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Morris C. Troper (1892-1962)
|
New York, New York, USA
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Executive Committee, Board of Directors, (JDC); Eurexco chairman, 1938-1942
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Roger Trugman
|
France
|
Warned Jews of deportation in France
[Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Luba Tryszynska (“Angel of Bergen-Belsen”)
|
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
|
Jewish prisoner in Bergen-Belsen, 1945. Saved 45 Dutch children.
|
|
Shmarya Tsameret
|
Athens, Greece
|
Mossad Aliyah Bet
[Ofer 1990.]
|
|
Boris Tschlenoff
|
Geneva, Switzerland
|
Head, Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE) in Switzerland
[Ginzberg 1942. P.181]
|
|
Rabbi Daniel Tsion
|
Sofia, Bulgaria
|
President, Jewish Religious Court
Community leader, major rescue advocate; lobbied senior Bulgarian officials
[Chary 1970. Pp.147-150, 167, 189]
|
|
Niunia Tsirinski
|
Slonim Ghetto, Zhabinka District, Belorussia
|
Partisan leader, Antifascist Committee
Helped Jews escape ghetto
Liberated Kosovo Jews, October 1943
|
|
Henry Turk
|
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
|
Vice chairman, Jewish Labor Committee
|
|
Z. Tygel
|
New York City, New York, USA
|
Executive vice president, American Friends of Polish Jews
|
|
Baruh Tzahor (Béla Weisz) (b.1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonim
Helped refugees, distributed foged papers, partisan fighter
[Gur 2007. P.237]
|
|
Dov Tzahor (Berthold Weisz) (1917-1995)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Bnei Akiva
Relief and Rescue Committee, Budapest
Helped refugees from Slovakia
[Gur 2007. P.237]
|
|
Miriam Tzahor (Mirjam Eisenberg Weisz)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Bnei Akiva
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.238]
|
|
Hiam Tzur (Endre Burger) (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped refugees from Slovakia, caught, imprisoned, escaped
[Gur 2007. P.238]
|
|
Lea Tzur (Olga Wertheimer) (b.1925)
|
Debrecen/Budapest, Hungary
|
Rescue activist
[Gur 2007. P.238]
|
|
Jerome I. Udell
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Ehud Ueberall (Avriel)
|
Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia
|
Aliyah Bet
Zionist Youth
|
|
Sándor György Ujváry
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Journalist of Jewish ancestry
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Vatican legation
Distributed protective documents
[Braham 1981. Pp.998,1000,1001
Levai 1948. Pp.371-374]
|
|
Fritz Ullmann
|
Prague, Czechoslovakia
|
Community leader, rescue activist
[Ofer 1990. p.52
Rothkirchen 2005. p.266]
|
|
Dr. Alexandre Ungár
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dentist, President of Mizrahi, Budapest
Posed as Swiss diplomat
|
|
Dr. Meir Béla Ungár (1899-1974)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Founder, Hahashmona’im
Secretary and Chairman Maccabea
Leader of Hakoah
Member Mizrahi
Rescue activist, produced protective documents in Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.239]
|
|
Samuel David Ungar
|
Slovakia
|
Leader, Working Group (Pracovná Skupina); rescue activist
|
|
Rabbi Zikmund Ungeer
|
Terezin Ghetto
|
Former Chief Rabbi of Brno
Council of Elders Terezin Ghetto
Assistant to Jacon Edelstein
[Rothkirchen 2005. P.266]
|
|
Menachem Ussishkin
|
Palestine
|
Jewish Agency for Palestine, executive
Rescue advocate
[Ofer p.27]
|
|
Isaac Ussoskin
|
|
American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
[JDC Archives, New York]
|
|
Moses Ussoskin
|
Bucharest, Romania
|
Union of Jewish Communities (Federatia Uniunilor de Comunitati Evreesti)
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Representative
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Hugo Valentine
|
Stockholm, Sweden
|
Chaitman, Zionist Federation
Rescue and relief activist
[Yahil 1969. P.25]
|
|
Jo?ef Vajda (Joseph Dotan) (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Worked in Swiss Glass House preparing and distributing protective Schutzpasse
[Gur 2007. P.75]
|
|
Zsigmond (Shima) Vajda (1908-2005)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Ha’oved
Helped refugees from Slovakia
[Gur 2007. Pp.239-240]
|
|
Zorzeta Vajdman* (Zorzeta Weidman) (1924-1942)
|
Újvidék (Novi Sad)
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Murdered by Hungarian Soldiers January 1942
[Gur 2007. P.241]
|
|
I. Valk*
|
Vilna, Lithuania
|
HIAS-ICA Representative in Vilna
Killed by Nazis
[HIAS Archives, Yivo]
|
|
Celine Vallee
|
Paris, France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
|
|
Lelio Vittorio Valobra
|
Italy
|
Founder and first leader, DELASEM (Aid Commission for Jewish Refugees; Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti), 1939-1943; attorney
Worked with Fr. Marie-Bénoit and Angelo Donati
[Leboucher 1969.
Sarfatti 2006.
Waagenaar 1974.]
|
|
Isidoor van Dam
|
Netherlands
|
Jewish Council leader, Enschede, Holland; urged Jews to go into hiding; developed underground rescue movement
[Presser 1969.]
|
|
Jacques van der Kar
|
Schouwburg, Netherlands
|
Jewish Council worker; helped Jews escape
[Presser 1969.]
|
|
Gertrude van Tijn
|
Netherlands
|
Head, Social Work Section, Jewish Women’s Organization
Representative, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1933-September 1943
Helped organize and run CJV with R. H. Eitje
Arrested and deported to Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps
[JDC Archives, NY
Presser 1969.]
|
|
Rahel Vardi (Gabriella Flohr) (b.1923)
|
Slovakia-Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Smuggled Jews from Slovakia to Hungary, Hid & fed them
Caught, deported to Auschwitz, survived
[Gur 2007. P.240]
|
|
Dr. Imre Varga
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Rescue advocate tried to get Jewish Council to save Jews in Hungarian provinces
Committee suicide
[Braham 1981. P.626]
|
|
Josef Varon
|
Bulgaria
|
Yishuv Parachutist
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Alexander “Alex” Vas (Prof. Alexander Barzel) (1921-2005)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Underground activist, distributed forged protective documents
[Gur 2007. P.52]
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Vilmos Vasadi
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Budapest, Hungary
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Relief activist
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Elie Veissi
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Solonika, Greece
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Lead Jewish resistance group
Tried to warn Jews of deportation
Arrested, deported to Auschwitz
[Levin 1968. P.526]
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Lodewijk E. Visser (1871-1942)
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Netherlands
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Chief Justice, Dutch Supreme Court
Chairman, Jewish Co-ordinating Committee
Relief activist
[Presser 1969.]
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Harry Viteles
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Teheran, Iran
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
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Charney B. Vladeck
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USA
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Executive committee, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1926-1938
Chairman, Jewish Labor Committee (JLC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
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Laia Voldman
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Southern France
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Rescuer, Armée Juive (AJ), Jewish Army
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Romark Volteger*
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France
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HIAS-ICA (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society), Emigration Association of France
Killed
[HIAS Archives, Yivo, NY
Wischnitzer 1956. P.192]
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Hiam Vito Volterra
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Italy
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Jewish partisan leader
Monte San Marino Group
Liberated concentration camp at Servigliano, May 1944
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F. Frank Vorenberg
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Moston, MA., USA
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Board of Drectors, JDC
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Rudolph Vrba (Walter Rosenberg)
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Slovakia
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Escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau; wrote Auschwitz Report (Protocols); warned Jews
[Braham 1981. Pp.708-710
Kranzler 2000.
Verba]
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