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Sent on the death march. Yehuda Bacon: July 28, 1929: Alive 95 Jewish December 1943 – January 18, 1945 Artist. Sent on the death march. His father was gassed in June 1944; his mother and his sister Hanna were deported to Stutthof concentration camp, where they died a few weeks before its liberation. Anton Korêk: March 29, 1927: Alive 97 ...
Ruth Westheimer (1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. William the Silent (1533–1584), German-born main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs [25] Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), art historian and archaeologist
In the book, Severloh claims that - as a machine gunner - he inflicted over 1,000 and possibly over 2,000 casualties to the American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. [1] [2] However, Severloh's claim is not viewed as credible by either US or German historians. Total US casualties (killed, wounded, and missing) from all sources along ...
Those still alive when the marchers reached the coast were forced into the Baltic Sea and shot. [9] Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, describes in his book Night (1960) how he and his father, Shlomo, were forced on a death march from Buna (Auschwitz III) to Gleiwitz. [10]
Alger Hiss – American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, original surname of "Hesse" [472] Jimmy Hoffa – labor union leader and author [473] J. Edgar Hoover – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Lena Kleinschmidt – jewel thief; Fritz Kuhn – German American ...
Name Position Date of birth Date of death Last residence Short summary Rosemarie Albrecht []: Aktion T4: 19 March 1915: 7 January 2008: Germany A former medical professor at the University of Jena, Albrecht was accused of killing a patient in 1941, as part of the Nazi euthanasia program which carried out mass killings of the mentally ill and physically disabled.
Nazi march of the German American Bund on East 86th St., New York City, 30 October 1939. Nazism in the Americas has existed since the 1930s and continues to exist today. The membership of the earliest groups reflected the sympathies some German-Americans and German Latin-Americans had for Nazi Germany.
German: Film actor Jewish: Died at an unknown concentration camp: Ernst Arndt: 1861-1942/3: German: Actor Jewish: Murdered in the gas chamber at Treblinka concentration camp: Maria Bard: 1900–1944: German: Actress political reasons: Suicide in Berlin for "political reasons" [citation needed] Lea Deutsch: 1927–1943: Croatian: Child actress ...