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Head Rabbi of Jewish Municipality of Zagreb, catechist, translator, writer and spiritual leader, educated in law and theology science. On last transport of Jews from Croatia. Killed at camp entrance when he protested against the inhumane procedure that was implemented against the members of his community. Kurt Gerron: May 11, 1897: October 28 ...
Jewish: died in detention, circumstances unclear Karel Poláček: 1892–1944: Czech: writer Jewish: died in Gleiwitz concentration camp Vladislav Vančura: 1891–1942: Czech: writer, doctor Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: executed at Kobylisy Shooting Range: Etty Hillesum: 1914–1943: Dutch: writer, diary author Jewish
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a nonprofit organization that helps Holocaust victims seek compensation, released an eight-country survey last week showing that 46% of ...
The number of victims includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were gassed on arrival), 74,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Romani, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 others. [8] Those not gassed were murdered via starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings.
Approximately 1.1 million people were murdered at the concentration camp from 1940 to 1945, many of them Jews but also other victims of the Third Reich including Poles, the Roma, and Soviet ...
The advancing Soviets were the first Allied soldiers to see the gas chambers, and initially overestimated the total number of victims. [ 12 ] A group of six members of Majdanek personnel – who had not managed to escape – were arraigned before the Soviet-Polish Special Criminal Court immediately following the camp's liberation of July 23, 1944.
Jan. 27 marks both International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary ... was working with refugees in Czechoslovakia after the anti-Jewish pogroms of Kristallnacht, and successfully ...
[1] [2] The subsequent creation of the ghetto was followed – over a year later – by the murder of the imprisoned Jewish population of Pińsk, totalling 26,000 victims: men, women and children. Most killings took place between 29 October and 1 November 1942 by Police Battalion 306 of the German Order Police , and other units. [ 3 ]