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A large Jewish community also existed in Latvia. In comparison, Estonia and the Nordic countries have had much smaller communities, concentrated mostly in Denmark and Sweden. The following is a list of prominent North European Jews, arranged by country of origin:
Jewish-Danish families (3 C) S. Danish Sephardi Jews (7 P) Pages in category "Danish Jews" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Lopes Suasso: family whose nobility was confirmed between 1818 and 1831, extinct in 1970 (notable member: Francisco Lopes Suasso, Baron d'Avernas le Gras (1657–1710), one of the leading shareholders of the West India Company, one of the most ardent supporters of the House of Orange, he supported William of Orange in 1688, in his invasion of England)
The rabbi of the main synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews in October 1943, during the Second World War. [1] After escaping with his family and other Danish Jews to Sweden, he served as the acting rabbi for the Jewish refugees in Sweden until the end of the war, in mid 1945.
Cause of death Hedwig Jahnow: 1879-1944 German Old testament theologian Jewish: malnutrition in Theresienstadt: Kaj Munk: 1898–1944: Danish: theologian, playwright Danish resistance movement: murdered by an SS-Sonderkommando, Hørbylunde/Denmark Lodewijk Sarlois: 1884-1942 Dutch Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands Jewish: Auschwitz: Dietrich ...
Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal, while a Swiss community was only ...
Child actress. Born Jewish, converted to Roman Catholicism with her family in June 1941 as an attempt by her father to save the family from certain death, but still considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws. Died in the cattle wagon routed to Auschwitz. Fritz Duschinsky [8] February 26, 1907: December 1, 1942: 35 Jewish Czechoslovak physicist
The victim had been sentenced to death by the Greek State because of his anti-Greek resurgence in the region. 34 Xhafer Ypi: Former Prime Minister 17 December 1940 Unknown Unknown Killed during aerial bombardments. 35 Sali Nijazi Dede: Dedebaba, Founder of the Bektashi Order: 28 November 1941 Italian agents Bektashi Headquarters, Tirana