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Name
|
Location
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Description/Organization[Reference(s)]
|
|
Hans Wagman* (1924-1943)
|
Újvidék (Novi Sad)
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground, caught 1941 deported to Ukraine, died there
[Gur 2007. P.241]
|
|
M. Bella Wagner
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Karla Wagonberg
|
Berlin, Germany
|
Member, Chug Chalutzi
Rescue group
Deported to Auschwitz
|
|
Hugo Wahl
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Rescue leader; worked with Raoul Wallenberg and Swedish legation
[Anger 1981.
Braham 1981. P.1087]
|
|
Huguette Wahl
|
Marseilles, France
|
MJS member. Organized crossings of endangered Jewish children from France to Switzerland.
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE)
Caught hiding and transporting Jewish children
[Latour 1970.]
|
|
Henri Wahl
|
Tarn Et Garonne Area, France
|
Sixiemé (The Sixth)
Hid 850 Jewish Children
[Latour 1970.
Lazare 1996.
Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
Zorach Wahrhaftig (1906-2002)
|
Poland; Lithuania
|
Zionist Mizrachi
Rescue leader
Palestine Committee for Polish Refugees
Representation of Polish Jewry
World Jewish Congress
Representative, Polish Government in Exile
[Wahrhaftig 1988.]
|
|
Israel Waksberg
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”), Perl Transport
[Perl 1978. P.30]
|
|
Morris D. Waldman
|
New York, USA
|
General Secretary, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
[AJC Yearbooks WWII]
|
|
Chaim Waldner
|
Austria
|
Yishuv Parachutist
[Friling 2005.]
|
|
Falk Walk
|
Paris, France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
|
|
Sidney Wallach
|
New York, USA
|
Associate secretary, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
[AJC Yearbooks WWII]
|
|
Harry Wander
|
USA
|
Board of directors, HIAS
Founder, ILGWU
[Ginzberg 1942.
HIAS Archives, Yivo]
|
|
Walter F. Wanger
|
Los Angeles, CA, USA
|
Noted Film Producer
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
M. Waprinsky
|
Helsinki, Finland
|
Refugee Committee, Helsinki Jewish Congregation
[Rautkallio 1987.]
|
|
Edward M. M. Warburg
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Philanthropist
Vice president, Palestine Economic Corporation
Board Member, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); vice chairman, 1938-1939; co-chairman, 1940; chairman, 1941-1943
Board of directors, Agro-Joint
|
|
Felix M. Warburg
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Philanthropist
Chairman, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1914-1932; hon. Chairman, 1932-1937; hon. President, ASJFS
Council for German Jewry, London; Central Council for Jewish Refugees, London
National Committee for Aid to Refugees
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Mrs. Felix Warburg
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Hon. Chairwoman, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Board of Directors, JDC
[AJC Yearbooks WWII]
|
|
Max M. Warburg (1867-1946)
|
Germany; New York, New York, USA
|
Philanthropist
Relief Organization of German Jews (Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden)
Organized Ha’avara (Transfer) Agreement
Executive Committee, Board of Directors, JDC
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Paul Felix Warburg
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Philanthropist
Treasurer, National Committee for Aid to Refugees
Treasurer, German-Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc.
Secretary, National Refugee Service, Inc. (NRS)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Eugene Warner
|
Buffalo, NY, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
David M. Watchmaker
|
Boston, MA, USA
|
Executive Committee, Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Ilse Weber*
|
Terezin Concentration Camp
|
Worked in childrens hospital, saved many
Sent to Auschwitz with family, murdered there
|
|
Gabriel Wechsler
|
New York City, New York, USA
|
Secretary, American Friends of a Jewish Palestine
|
|
Wechter
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz, Resistance, Hazalah
|
|
Michael Weichert
|
Krakow, Poland
|
Director, Jewish Aid Center (Jüdische Unterstützungsstelle; JUS)
|
|
Weichman* (d. 1943)
|
Belgium
|
Leader, Committee for the Defense of Jews (CDJ)
Raided Jewish Council office, destroyed records
Partisan group commander, resisted deportations, caught tortured, executed
[Daring to Resist pp.124-125
Suhl 1967. P.309]
|
|
Dr. Frantisek Weidmann*
|
Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
|
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde), secretary, later chairman
Murdered in Auschwitz, 1944
[Dagan 1984. Vol.3 pp.38-40, 50]
|
|
Dr. Chaim Weigmann
|
|
Member of subcommittee, High Commissioner for Refugees (League of Nations)
|
|
Adolph Weil
|
Montgomery, AL, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Bruno Weil
|
Buenos Aires, Argentina
|
Comite de Soccoro Para Gurs
|
|
Frank L. Weil
|
New York, New York, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Chief Rabbi Julien Weil
|
France
|
Community leader, rescue activist
[Cohen 1987.
Lazare 1996.
Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
Lionel Weil
|
Goldsboro, NC., USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Milton Weil
|
New York, NY, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Sara Weil (Éva Taub) (b.1920)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist with husband Shraga Weil, arrested, imprisoned 1944
[Gur 2007. Pp.241-242]
|
|
Shraga (Ferenc) Weil (1919-2009)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
He Halutz, Resistance, Hazalah
Hashomer Hatzair, forged documents
[Braham 1981. P.1000
Gur 2007. P.242]
|
|
Albert Weill
|
Occupied France
|
Council Member, General Union of Jews of Œuvre (UGIF-North) Leader Group VI
[Adler 1987.
Cohen 1987.]
|
|
Dr. Joseph Weill (1902-1988)
|
Geneva, Switzerland; Limoges, France
|
Physician, Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE)
Main Office for the Shelters
Major underground rescue and relief activist
Helped Jews in French camps
Escaped France in 1943
[Adler 1987.
Latour 1971.
Lazare 1996.
Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Laure Weill
|
Southern France
|
Council Member, General Union of Jews of France (UGIF-South)
[Cohen 1987.]
|
|
Nicole Salon Weill*
|
Marseilles, France
|
MJS member. Organized crossings of endangered Jewish children from France to Switzerland.
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants ; OSE)
Deported and killed with children, 1943
|
|
Professor Benjamin Weill-Hallé
|
France
|
Council Member, General Union of Jews of France, (Union Général des Israeliets de France) UGIF-South
[Lazare 1996.
Poznanski 2001.]
|
|
Benjamin G. Weinberg
|
USA; Europe
|
HIAS representative to Europe, 1936-1937
[Ginzberg 1942.
HIAS Archives, NY]
|
|
Dr. Harold M. Weinberg
|
USA
|
Board of directors, Hebrew Immigrant Aid and Sheltering Society, HIAS
[Ginzberg 1942.
HIAS Archives, Yivo]
|
|
Joseph Weinberg
|
New York, NY., USA
|
Treasurer, American ORT Foundation
Vice chairman, Jewish Labor Committee (JLC)
|
|
Morris Weinberg
|
New York, NY., USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Janos Weinberger (Tzvi Karmi) (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Organized childrens house for rescue
[Gur 2007. P.140]
|
|
Erick Weiner
|
Terein Ghetto
Prague, Czechoslovakia
|
Member, Council of Elders, Terezin Ghetto
Assistant to Jacob Edelstein*
[Rothkirchen 2005. P.266]
|
|
Magdalena Weiner (Magda Apor-Weiner) (1910-1998)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Gordon Group
Assisted Refugees, distributed protective papers
Wife of Zoltán Weiner
[Gur 2007. Pp.242-243]
|
|
Zoltán (Zoli) Weiner (1904-1962)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Relief and rescue activist
Gordon Circle
Department A, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Assisted refugees, rescue activist
[Cohen 1986. Pp.173,183
Gur 2007. P.243]
|
|
Joe Weingarten
|
USA
|
Co-chairman, United Palestine Appeal
|
|
Martin Weingarten (Mordehai Karmon) (1924-2003)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Dror Habonim
Rescue leader, posed as Hungarian official and Arrow Cross
[Gur 2007. P.141]
|
|
Dr. Shaul Weingort
|
Switzerland
|
HIJEFS
|
|
S. J. Weinstein
|
USA
|
Board of directors, HIAS
|
|
Jacques (Jacob) Weintraub (Wister)
|
Nice, France
|
MJS member. Éducation Physique network. Organized crossings of endangered Jewish children from France to Switzerland. Caught by Nazis, sent to Drancy
[Latour 1970.
Lazare 1996.
Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Hiam Weisel (Alias “Sandor Balogh”) (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Bnei Akiva
Distributed documents in forced labor camps, distributed food and supplies to childrens houses
[Gur 2007. P.151-152]
|
|
Herman L. Weisman
|
New York City, New York, USA
|
Secretary, Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod), Inc.
|
|
György Mordehai Weisz (1918-1994)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader, Hanoar Hatzioni
Distributed protective documents, hid Jews, saved Jews from death marches
Worked in Swiss Glass House
Armed partisan
[Gur 2007. P.245]
|
|
Judit Weisz (Judith “Juca” Herbst) (1912-1974)
|
Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground Activist, arrested, tortured by Gestapo
[Gur 2007. P.129]
|
|
Márta Weisz (Revesz) (b.1928)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Obtained, distributed Aryan documents, helped Jews escape labor units
[Gur 2007. Pp.192-193]
|
|
Moshe Weisz (1922-1969)
|
|
Dror Habonim
Zionist Youth Underground
[Gur 2007. P.246]
|
|
Sára Weisz (Sarah Epstein (b.1925)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Distributed protective documents and nation cards to refugees from Slovakia
[Gur 2007. P.80]
|
|
Dov Weiss
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Secretary, Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Secretary, Jewish Council (Zsido Tanacs)
[Braham 1981.
Friling 2005.]
|
|
Elizer (Lázló) Weiss (Alias: Józef Vitéz) (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Bnei Akiva
Distributed protective papers, saved Jews posing as Arrow Cross soldier
[Gur 2007. P.244]
|
|
Sholem Weiss
|
Pajeczno, Poland (Radom District)
|
Jewish Council, Labor Department; facilitated escape
[Trunk 1972. P.464]
|
|
Yehoshua (Herman) Weiss (b.1922)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Helped save Jews as part of Swiss Legation
[Gur 2007. P.248]
|
|
Yirmiyahu “Yirmi” Weiss (1917-1944)
|
Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.249]
|
|
Dr. Weissbrod
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Head, Youth Aliya, Austria
|
|
Isaac Weissman
|
Lisbon, Portugal
|
Relief Committee for the War-stricken Jewish Population (RELICO)
World Jewish Congress (WJC)
Refugee relief activist
[Bauer 1981. Pp.213-214]
|
|
Nathan Weissman
|
USA
|
Staff, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1941-1944
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel (1903-1958)
|
Slovakia
|
Bratislava Rescue Committee
Leader, Working Group (Pracovná Skupina), 1942-1944
Sent to Auschwitz in 1944, escaped from train
[AJC Archives, NY
Fuchs 1954.
Neuman 1958.
Weissmandel 1960.]
|
|
Arthur Weisz*
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Rescue activist, owner of the Glass House, part of the Swiss legation, Vadasz Street, killed
[Tsuchy]
|
|
György (Mordehai) Weisz (1918-1994)
|
|
Hanoak Hatzioni
Major underground leader and activist, distributed documents to Jews in Ghettos, hid Jews and saved them from death marches
Worked out of Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.245]
|
|
Haya Weisz (Ilona Roth) (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Dept. A International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Underground Activist
[Gur 2007. P.244]
|
|
Lévi “Pupos” Weisz* (1920-1944)
|
Slovakia
Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Smuggled Jews from Slovakia into Hungary
Deported to Auschwitz and murdered in 1944
[Gur 2007. P.245]
|
|
Moshe Mór Weisz (b.1923)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Resistance
Hashomer Hatzair
Distributed deportation papers, built and maintained bunkers used to hide or rescue Jews
Dror Habonim
Dept. A International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Worked in Glass House
Put in forced labor battalion
[Cohen 1986. P.196
Gur 2007. P.246]
|
|
Rudolf Weisz (“Uncle Rudi”) (b.1893)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Resistance leader ; Rescue and Relief Committee ; distributed supplies to ghettoes
Gordon and Borohov Circles
Dept A, International Committee of the Red Cross, (ICRC)
Worked at Glass House
Worked in Swiss Consulates on Wekerle and Vadasz Streets
[Cohen 1986. Pp.183-184
Gur 2007. P.246]
|
|
Shmuel (Sándor) “Koli” Weisz (b.1926)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Bnei Akiva
Helped refugees, forged and distributed documents, arrested deported to Auschwitz then Buchenwald, survived
[Gur 2007. Pp.246-247
|
|
Vera Weisz (Lefkovics) (1927-1998)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Forged and distributed protective papers, hid Jewish children and mothers, caught, escaped excecution
[Gur 2007. P.247]
|
|
Yaakov (Imre) Weisz (1924-1947)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Beitar
Saved Jews from éportation, used forged protective papers
[Gur 2007. P.248]
|
|
Yehuda (Ernö) Weisz (1917-1982)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz, Resistance
Hashomer Hatzair
Council Information Section
[Braham 1981. P.1000
Gur 2007. P.248]
|
|
Dr. Chaim Weitzman (1874-1952)
|
Palestine
|
First President of Israel, 1949-1952
Major Yishuv leader and Zionist
President, World Zionist Organization, 1921-1931, 1935-1946
Rescue leader in London
Central Council for Jewish Refugees
[Friling 2005.
Weitzman]
|
|
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt
|
Detroit, MI., USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Abusz Werber
|
Belgium
|
Jewish Defense Committee (CDJ ; Comité de Défense des Juifs)
Polalei Zion
He Halutz rescue and relief activist
[Michman 1998. P.401]
|
|
Abraham Werman
|
USA
|
Vice president, American Federation for Polish Jews
|
|
David Wertheim
|
New York, NY., USA
|
Co-chair, National Labor Committee for Palestine
Co-chair, United Palestine Fund
Co-chair, Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod), Inc.
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Anatoly Wertheim
|
Naliboki Forest (near Minsk), Belorussia
|
Chief of Staff, „Unit 106,“ „Zorin Unit“; armed partisan resistance; saved Jews
|
|
Ernö Wertheimer (Yahuda Harari) (b.1921)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Escaped labor battalion
Worked in Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.126]
|
|
Miklós Moshe Wettenstein (1927-1970)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Worked on forged protective documents
Helped rescue Jews from Arrow Cross, released Jews who were arrested, arrested and escaped
[Gur 2007. P.250]
|
|
Alfred Wetzler (Alias: Josef Láník)
|
Slovakia
|
Escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau; wrote Auschwitz Report; warned Jews of Holocaust
[Braham 1981. Pp.708-710
Suhl 1967.
Verba]
|
|
András Shlomo Wetzler (1921-1996)
|
Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Moved refugees, distributed protective documents and funds for Jews
[Gur 2007. P.250]
|
|
Michael ‘Misho” Wetzler (1913-1970
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Forged and distributed protective documents
[Gur 2007. Pp.250-251]
|
|
Ora Wetzler (b.1920) (Olga Kohn)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Distributed forged protective papers
[Gur 2007. P.250]
|
|
Ninon Weyl-Hait
|
Southern France
|
Leader, French Jewish Scouts (EIF)
La Sixème
Distributed forged ration cards
[Cohen 1987.]
|
|
James L. White
|
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Lloyd Whitebrook
|
New York, USA
|
Chairman, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Junior Division (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Peter Wiernik
|
USA
|
American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
[JDC Archives, New York]
|
|
J. Wierosub
|
Danzig, Poland
|
Director, HIAS-ICA branch in Danzig; supervised Jewish emigration from Poland through Danzig and Gdynia
|
|
Bernát Hiam Wiesel (b.1924)
|
Budapest, Hugnary
|
Bnei Akiva
Distributed protective papers to Jews in labor camps, distributed food to childrens houses
Worked in Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. Pp.251-252]
|
|
Manfred Wihl
|
La Paz, Bolivia
|
SOCOBO and SOPRO
|
|
Stefania Wilczynska
|
Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
|
Helped Dr. Korczak run orphanage in Warsaw Ghetto
|
|
Dr. György Wilhelm
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Leader, Clothes Collecting Company, Hungarian Labor Company
Section T, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Rescued Jews from death marches
[Braham 1981. P.998]
|
|
Karoly Wilhelm
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Jewish Council (Zsido Tanacs)
|
|
Willi
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz, Resistance, Hazalah
|
|
Henry Wineman
|
Detroit, Michigan, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Bronia Winicki (Klirenstein)
|
Bialystok Ghetto
|
Member, “Antifascist Bialystok” cell; worked with partisans
|
|
Moses Winkelstein
|
Syracuse, NY, USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Barek Winter
|
Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania
|
Forged Japanese visas and distributed to Polish refugees in Kovno, Lithuania
[Oral Testimony (HOHP), USHMM]
|
|
Benjamin Winter
|
New York City, New York, USA
|
President, American Federation for Polish Jews
|
|
Dr. Albert (Vojtech Eugen) Winterstein (1903-1970)
|
Slovakia
|
Working Group (Pracovná Skupina)
Nebenregierung
Zionist leader
[Dagan 1984. Vol.1,2,3
|
|
Mark Wischnitzer
|
Germany
|
Secretary General, Relief Organization of German Jews (Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden)
|
|
Ethel H. Wise
|
USA
|
Secretary, German Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc.
|
|
James Waterman Wise
|
USA
|
Rescue and relief activist; son of WJC president Stephen Wise
|
|
Jonah B. Wise
|
New York, New York, USA
|
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), United Jewish Appeal (UJA) campaigns; national chairman, 1931-1950; JDC vice chairman, 1937-1959; JDC executive committee, 1931-1959, Board of Directors, Member Emergency Administration Committee
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (1874-1949)
|
New York, USA
|
President, World Jewish Congress (WJC)
President, American Jewish Congress
Council for German Jewry, London; Central Council for Jewish Refugees
Co-chair, American Zionist Emergency Council for Zionist Affairs, 1940-1945
Vice president, Zionist Organization of America
Co-chair, United Palestine Appeal
Co-chair, Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod), Inc.
Major rescue advocate
[Wise]
|
|
Mrs. Stephen S. Wise
|
USA
|
Child Adoption Bureau
Refugee activist
[Zucker 2008.]
|
|
Mark Wishnitzer
|
Germany
|
Leader with Hilfsverein ; worked with Max Warburg ; rescuer of German Jews
|
|
Jacques Wister (see Jacob Weintraub)
|
Nice, France
|
MJS member. Éducation Physique network. Organized crossings of endangered Jewish children from France to Switzerland. Caught by Nazis.
[Rayski 2005.]
|
|
Moshe (Ernö) Wiszkopf (1922-1987) (Alias: Horak Pál)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
He Halutz Rescue and Resistance
Bnei Akiva
Distributed Swiss protective passes, food, supplies
|
|
Rabbi Nathan Witkin
|
Panama City, Panama
|
Jewish Welfare Board (JWB)
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
[JDC Archives, NY]
|
|
Yitzak Wittenberg*
|
Vilna Ghetto, Poland
|
Leader, United Partisan Organization, FPO, armed rescue and resistance
Communist Party
Killed
|
|
Hillel Wodzislawski
|
Wisnicz, Poland
|
Commander, armed partisan resistance; worked with Krakow partisans
|
|
Dr. Wohlstein-Voldan
|
Slovakia
|
Leader, Central Jewish Office, smuggled Jews from Slovakia into Hungary
|
|
David P. Wohl
|
St. Louis, MO., USA
|
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Rabbi Shlomo Wolb
|
Sweden
|
Raised funds; obtained travel documents; rescue activist
|
|
Wilhelm Wolbe
|
Sweden
|
Rescue Committee of the Orthodox Rabbis in the United States (Va’ad Hatsala; Emergency Committee for War Torn Yeshivot)
|
|
Edith “Ewo” Wolf
|
Berlin, Germany
|
Created Chug Chalutzi (Zionist Circle) to rescue students
|
|
Eric Wolf
|
Vienna, Austria
|
Af-Al-Pi (“Despite Everything”), Perl Transport
[Perl 1978.]
|
|
Erica Wolf
|
Prague, Czechoslovakia
|
Relief activist, sent relief parcels and supplies to ghettos and concentrations camps
|
|
Harry K. Wolf
|
San Francisco, California, USA
|
Vice president, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (HIAS)
[HIAS Archives, Yivo
Wischnitzer 1956.]
|
|
Max F. Wolf
|
New York, USA
|
Chairman, Council of Organizations
American Jewish Congress
|
|
Morris Wolf
|
Philadelphia, PA., USA
|
Vice president, National Refugee Service (NRS)
Board of Directors, JDC
|
|
Avraham Wolsztein (Even-Haim)
|
Gordonia, Belgium
|
He Halutz rescue and relief activist; worked with Nathan Schwalb
[Milchman 1998. P.400]
|
|
Leon Wulman
|
New York, USA
|
Vice chairman, Association of Jewish Refugees and Immigrants from Israel
Secretary, American Committee of OSE
|
|
Veit Wyler
|
Switzerland
|
Rescue and relief activist
[Häsler 1969.]
|
|
Shoshana Yaar (Zsuzsa Elefánt) (Alias: Ilona Jávor)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist, distributed forged papers
[Gur 2007. P.252]
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Shlomo Yaakobi (Yankelewitz)
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Paris, France
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Center for Aliyah (Revisionist), Paris
NZO – New Zionist Organization
[Ofer 1990.]
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Uri Yaari
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Denmark
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Rescue activist
[Yahil 1969.]
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David Yahin (István Kemény) (1919-1961)
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hashomer Hatzair
Underground activist
[Gur 2007. P.252-253]
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Sarah Yahin-Kémeny (Sára Schwartz (1922-2002)
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hashomer Hatzair
Sela Organization
Helped refugees, distributed Aryan Papers
Worked in Swiss Glass House
[Gur 2007. P.253]
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Dr. Menahem Yakobi (Emil Jakubovics) (b.1923)
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Hungary-Romania
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Bnei Akiva
Smuggled Jews to Romania through Tiyul
[Gur 2007. P.253]
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Yomtob Yakoel
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Salonika, Greece
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Community lawyer; helped Jews by raising relief funds
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Dora Yarmulkovska
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Poland
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Hid Jews during War.
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Yitzhak Yatziv (1889-1947)
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Palestine
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Executive committee, Al-Domi (Do Not Keep Silent)
Rescue activist
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Zvi Yehieli (Schachter), (1905-1970)
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Geneva, Switzerland; Europe; Palestine
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Security, Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Mossad agent, Aliya Bet, 1942-1948
[Friling 2005.
Ofer 1991. P.43]
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Levi Yehuda
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Budapest, Hugnary
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Zionist Youth rescue activist
Rescue activist worked with Shulamit Gara
[Daring to Resist p.103
Museum of Jewish Heritage 2007. Pp.102-104]
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Chaim (Haim) Yellin* (1913-1944)
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Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto, Lithuania
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Underground leader, rescue activist
Founded and led Antifascist Organization
Caught and killed, April 1943
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Dr. Eliyahu Yeshurun (Ödön Szabó) (1914-2003)
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hanoar Hatzioni
Executive Committee, Hungarian Zionist Assn.
Warned Jews, manned bunkers
[Gur 2007. P.254]
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Yitzhak Yitzhaki (Istiván Izsák) (1926-1982)
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hanoar Hatzioni
Distributed forged papers, food, supplies to protected houses, posed as Hungarian officer to patrol neighborhoods
[Gur 2007. P.254]
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Yosi
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hashmer Hazair
Hazalah
|
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Albert Youdine
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France
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Communist
[Adler 1987.]
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Simon Zaidov
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France
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Solidarity, Member International Brigade
Deported March 1942, escaped Auschwitz
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Yitzchak Zakkai
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France
|
French Jewish Scouts (EIF)
[Adler 1987.]
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Shmuel Zalchman*
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Chmielnik, Poland
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Second Chairman, Chmielnik Jewish Council, Poland
Organized Ghetto underground, arrested, tortured, murdered
[Trunk 1971. P.467]
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Judith Zarhi (Judit Schaffer) (b.1924)
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Budapest, Hungary
|
Maccabi Hatzair
Worked in Swiss Glass House, distributed Swiss protective papers
[Gur 2007. P.255]
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Yitzchak Zakkai
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France
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Jewish Scouts
Rescue-Tiyul leader
[Gur 2007.]
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Zall
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Budapest, Hungary
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He Halutz, Resistance, Hazalah
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Dr. Paul Zander
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
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President, “Uniao” Associacao Beneficente Israelita
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Professor Julius Zappert
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Vienna, Austria
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Youth Welfare Department
Helped 2,844 Austrian children to emigrate
[Frankel 1967.]
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Max Zaritsky
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New York City, New York, USA
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Vice chairman, Jewish Labor Committee (JLC)
National treasurer, National Labor Committee for Palestine
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Reuvén Zaslany (Shiloah) (1909-1959)
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Palestine
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Haganah, Illegal Immigration, 1936-1948
Headed Parachutists’ operation
[Friling 2005.
Porat 1990. P.320]
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Zvi Zeidenfeld (“Zidi”), (1909-1959)
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Budapest, Hungary
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Bnai Akiva
Hazalah
Code name: Kovacs
Worked at Swiss legation, distributed protective documents, arrested by Gestapo, beaten and escaped
[Cohen 1986. Pp.236-237
Gur 2007.]
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Harry Zeitz
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Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Board of Directors, JDC
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Lazaro Zelwer
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Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela
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Representative, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 1939-1944; HIAS-HICEM
[JDC Archives, NY]
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Dr. Erwin Ziemlich
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Bohemia-Moravia, Czechoslovakia
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Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde), Personnel Office
[Rothkirchen 2005.]
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Avraham Zilberberg
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Tehran, Iran
|
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
[Friling 2005.]
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David Zimend
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Turkey
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Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency in Turkey, Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
General Zionists
[Friling 2005.]
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Mala Zimetbaum* (1922-1944)
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
|
Helped Jews in Birkenau
Escaped June 1944; recaptured and killed
|
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Max Zimmels
|
Germany
|
Kibbutz Agelet Hashahar
Rescue activist
[Ofer p.101]
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Fanny Zimmer
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Southern France
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OSE, Relief workder, Rivesaltes concentration camp; wife of Dr. René Zimmer
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Moshe Zimmer
|
Romania
|
Jewish Coordinating Council
Rescue and relief activist
[Ancel 1987. Vol.5,8
Bauer 1981. P.352]
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Dr. René Zimmer
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Marsailles, Southern France
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Physician, worked for Unitarian Service Committee (USC) helping refugees
Inspected French concentration camps
[Ryan
USC Archives, Harvard Divinity School Library Archives]
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Shlomo Zimmer
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Szarkowszczyzna Ghetto
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Leader, ghetto underground; encouraged and helped 10,000 Jews to escape
|
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Györgi Dan Zimmermann (b.1919)
|
Budapest, Hungary
Romania
|
He Halutz
Hashomer Hatzair
Forged documents, helped refugees
Tiyul
[Gur 2007. P.255]
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Hersz (Hersch) Zimmerman
|
France
|
Relief activist
Ran canteen for refugees
[Adler 1987.
Lazare 1996.
Poznanski 2002.]
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Jacob Zimmerman*
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Bedzin Ghetto, Poland
|
He Haltz Underground, fighter, rescuer
Tried to help Jews escape ghetto
Killed
[Adenszalk 1944. P.66]
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Zipi
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hazalah
|
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Aaron Zisling
|
Palestine
|
Rescue advocate
|
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Abraham Zissu (1888-1956)
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Romania
|
Community leader; Zionist activist
Joint Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (JA; Yishuv)
Obtained release of prisoners
Arranged for illegal immigration
Worked with Aliya Bet
[Ancel 1987. Vol.5,8
Porat. 1990]
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Solange Zitenok (“Rémy”)
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Toulouse, Southern France
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Leader, Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants), Southwest Division
[Klarsfeld 1985.]
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Miron Zlatin*
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Palavas-Les-Flots, Southern France
|
Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
Husband of Sabina Zlatin
Deported to Auschwitz and murdered
[Klarsfeld 1985.]
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Sabina Zlatin*
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Plavas-Les-Flots, Southern France
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Children’s Aid Rescue Society (OSE ; Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
[Klarsfeld 1985.]
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Eli Zohar
|
Yugoslavia
|
Yishuv Parachutist
Liaison with Yugoslav Partisans
[Friling 2005.]
|
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Rabbi Israel Zolli
|
Rome, Italy
|
Warned Jews to go into hiding to save themselves, October 1943
|
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Kálmán Zohar (Kálmán Sonnenchein) (1926-1973)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hanoar Hatzioni
Distributed Aryan documents
[Gur 2007. P.255]
|
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Shalom Zorin (Simon), (1902-1974)
|
Minsk, USSR
|
Jewish Partisan leader, Jewish Fighting Unit 106, saved 600-700 Jews in forests in family camp
[Greenstein 1968. Hebrew]
|
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Rahel (Fischer-Korner) Zsoldos (1915-1999)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Rescued children in Dept. A International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Hid Jewish children
[Gur 2007. P.256]
|
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Otto Zucker
|
Prague, Czechoslovakia
|
Supreme Council of the Jewish Religious Congregations of Bohemia, Moravia & Silesia (JRC; Kulturgemeinde)
Chairman, Karen Hayesod, Palestine Foundation Fund
Prague Transfer Committee
[Dagan 1984. Vol.3
Rothkirchen 2005.]
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Aron (Aharon) Zuckerman (b.1926)
|
Budapest, Hungary
|
Hashomer Hatzair
Rescue operative
Rescued Jews in death marches with International Red Cross Protective documents
Arrested and escaped several times
[Gur 2007. P.256]
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Shmaryahu Zuckerman
|
Horodok
|
Vice Chairman, Horodok Jewish Council; promoted escape and rescue
[Trunk 1971. P.465]
|
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Moshe Zupnick
|
Kovno, Lithuania
|
Student, Mir Yeshiva, helped Sugihara issue Japanese visas, 1940
[Kranzler Oral History]
|
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Szmul Zygielbojm* (1895-1943)
|
London, England
|
Polish National Council
Jewish representative of Polish government in exile, diplomat, 1942-1943
Major rescue and relief advocate
Warned world about the Holocaust
Committed suicide to protest murder of Jews in Europe
[Braham 1981. Pp.694-696
Posner p.317]
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