List of Holocaust victims
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The following list of Holocaust victims consists of people whose achievements or notability other than the manner of their death merit their own Wikipedia article.
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Contents
- 1 By nationality
- 2 By occupation
- 2.1 Literature and publishing
- 2.2 Theatre and film
- 2.3 Visual arts and design
- 2.4 Music
- 2.5 Humanities
- 2.6 Mathematics and natural sciences
- 2.7 Medicine, psychology, paedagogy
- 2.8 Law, business
- 2.9 Theology, spiritual
- 2.10 Sport
- 2.11 Politics, Resistance
- 2.12 Military
- 2.13 Paranormal, occultism
- 3 In the fields: List of known victims of Nazism (to cleanup)
- 4 See also
By nationality
Austria
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Felix Nussbaum | 1904-1944 | painter |
| Georg Alexander Pick | 1859-1943 | mathematician |
| Richard Schmitz | died 1938 | mayor of Vienna |
| Jura Soyfer | 1912-1939 | journalist |
Belarus
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Simon Dubnow | 1860-1941 | historian, writer, activist |
| Yitzhak Katzenelson | 1886-1944 | teacher, writer |
Czechoslovakia
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Hana Brady | 1931-1944 | (girl portrayed in ) |
| Josef Čapek | 1887-1945 | painter, writer |
| Pavel Haas | 1899-1944 | composer |
| Norbert Jokl | 1877-1942 | albanologist |
| Gideon Klein | 1919-1945 | composer |
| Paul Kornfeld | 1889-1942 | writer |
| Hans Krása | 1899-1944 | composer |
| Karel Poláček | 1892-1944 | writer |
| Erwín Schulhoff | jazz pianist | |
| Viktor Ullmann | 1898-1944 | composer, pianist |
| Vladislav Vančura | 1891-1942 | writer |
| Petr Ginz | 1928–1944 | young editor of Vedem (known for the book about him by Chava Pressburger) |
France
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Victor Basch | 1877-1945 | esthetician, politician |
| Marc Bloch | 1886-1944 | historian, resistance leader |
| René Blum | 1878-1942 | founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra à Monte Carlo |
| Benjamin Fondane | 1898-1944 | poet, literary critic |
| Maurice Halbwachs | 1877-1945 | philosopher |
| Max Jacob | 1876-1944 | artist |
| Georges Mandel | 1885-1944 | politician, resistance leader |
| Georges Politzer | 1902-1945 | philosopher |
| Elisabeth de Rothschild | 1902-1945 | wife of Baron Philippe de Rothschild |
Germany
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | 1906-1945 | Lutheran pastor, theologian |
| Kurt Gerron | 1887-1944 | performer, actor, film director |
| Dora Gerson | 1899-1943 | actress, cabaret singer |
| Franz Kaufmann | 1886-1944 | jurist |
| Rupert Mayer | 1876-1945 | Jesuit priest |
| Friedrich Münzer | 1868-1942 | philologist |
| Edith Stein | 1891-1942 | nun, Catholic saint (born Jewish) |
| Georg Strasser (elder brother of Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser) | ||
Hungary
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Sándor Büchler | 1869-1944 | rabbi, historian |
| Miklós Radnóti | 1909-1944 | poet |
| Antal Szerb | 1901-1945 | writer, literary scholar |
| Jenő Deutsch / Eugen Deutsch | 1879, Miszla - 1944, Flossenburg | social democratic politician ; [link] |
Netherlands
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Ernst Julius Cohen | 1869-1944 | chemist |
| Helga Deen | 1925-1943 | author of a published diary |
| Anne Frank | 1929-1945 | author of a published diary |
| Samuel J. de Mesquita | 1868-1944 | painter and designer |
| Etty Hillesum | 1914-1943 | diary author |
| Salo Landau | 1903-1944 | chess player |
| Leo Smit | 1900-1943 | composer |
| Abraham Icek Tuschinski | 1886-1942 | designer of the Tuschinski Theater |
Poland
| Name | Dates | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Kazimierz Bartel | 1882-1941 | Prime Minister of Poland 1926-1930 |
| Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński | 1874-1941 | gynaecologist, artist |
| Antoni Cieszyński | 1882-1941 | physician, dentist, surgeon |
| Władysław Dobrzaniecki | 1897-1941 | physician, surgeon |
| Maximilian Kolbe | 1894-1941 | friar, Catholic saint |
| Janusz Korczak | 1878-1942 | doctor, child physician, wartime hero |
| Antoni Łomnicki | 1881-1941 | mathematician |
| Kazimierz Proszyński | 1875-1945 | inventor |
| Bruno Schulz | 1892-1942 | writer |
| Stefan Starzyński | 1893-1943 | politician, economist, writer, statesman |
| Włodzimierz Stożek | 1883-1941 | mathematician |
| Stefan Rowecki | 1895-1944 | general, journalist, leader of Armia Krajowa |
| Jan Rubczak | 1884-1942 | painter, graphic artist |
| Nicolaus Rossini | 1898-1943 | artist, wartime hero |
| Stanisław Ruziewicz | 1889-1941 | mathematician |
By occupation
Literature and publishing
| Name | Dates | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Benjamin | 1892-1940 | German literary critic and philosopher | |
| Felix Fechenbach | 1894-1933 | German journalist and activist | |
| Else Feldmann | 1884-1942 | Austrian writer and journalist | |
| Anne Frank | 1929-1945 | German teenage diary writer | |
| Egon Friedell | 1878-1938 | Austrian writer and philosopher | |
| Julius Fučík | 1903-1943 | Czech resistance leader | |
| Mordechai Gebirtig | 1877-1942 | Yiddish poet, musician and composer | |
| Peter Hammerschlag | 1902-1942 | Austrian writer and graphic artist | |
| Walter Hasenclever | 1890-1940 | German expressionist writer | |
| Georg Hermann | died 1943 | Auschwitz | Writer |
| Franz Hessel | died 1941 | Sanary-sur-Mer | author, translator |
| Etty Hillesum | died 1943 | Auschwitz | writer |
| Jakob van Hoddis | died 1942 | Sobibór | writer |
| Milena Jesenská | died 1944 | Ravensbrück | journalist |
| Marcell Klang | died 1942 | Mauthausen | writer |
| Jochen Klepper | died 1942 | Berlin | writer (suicide) |
| Erich Knauf | died 1944 | Brandenburg | journalist, poet |
| Gertrud Kolmar | died 1943 | Auschwitz | writer |
| Anton de Kom | died 1945 | Neuengamme | author, human rights activist |
| Alma Maria König | died 1942 | Minsk | writer |
| Adam Kuckhoff | died 1943 | Berlin-Plötzensee | writer, dramatist, resistance fighter |
| Walter Landauer | died 1944 | Bergen-Belsen | publisher |
| Walter Lindenbaum | died 1945 | Buchenwald | writer |
| Philip Mechanicus | died 1945 | Auschwitz | journalist |
| Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger | died 1942 | writer | |
| Erich Mühsam | died 1934 | Oranienburg | writer, anarchist |
| Willi Münzenberg | died 1940 | (France) | publisher, politician (suicide/murder) |
| Irène Némirovsky | died 1942 | Auschwitz | writer |
| Carl von Ossietzky | died 1938 | Berlin | publicist |
| Ruth Rewald | died 1942 | Auschwitz | writer |
| Erich Salomon | died 1944 | Auschwitz | photojournalist |
| Libertas Schulze-Boysen | died 1942 | Berlin-Plötzensee | film critic, resistance fighter |
| Jura Soyfer | died 1939 | Buchenwald | writer |
| Else Ury | died 1943 | Auschwitz | writer |
| Vladislav Vančura | died 1942 | Prague | writer, doctor |
| David Vogel | d. 1944/5 | Auschwitz | writer |
| Ernst Weiss | died 1940 | Paris | writer (suicide) |
| Theodor Wolff | died 1943 | Berlin | writer, publicist |
| Stefan Zweig | died 1942 | (Brazil) | writer (suicide) |
Theatre and film
| Name | Dates | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernst Arndt | d. 1942/3 | Treblinka | Film actor |
| Maria Bard | died 1944 | ?Berlin | actress (suicide) |
| Hans Behrendt | died 1942 | en route to Auschwitz | film director, screenplay writer, actor |
| Horst Birr | died 1944 | Berlin | actor, film comedian |
| Eugen Burg | died 1944 | Theresienstadt | actor |
| Robert Dorsay | died 1941 | Bremen | actor (suicide) |
| Max Ehrlich | died 1944 | Auschwitz | actor |
| Kurt Gerron | died 1944 | Theresienstadt | actor |
| Emil Goldmann | died 1942 | Mauthausen | film director |
| Joachim Gottschalk | died 1941 | Berlin | actor (suicide) |
| Fritz Grünbaum | died 1941 | Dachau | actor |
| Hans Henninger | died 1937 | ?Ort | film actor (suicide) |
| Kurt Lilien | died 1943 | Sobibór | actor |
| Hans Meyer-Hanno | died 1945 | Berlin | film actor, stage designer, draughtsman, resistance fighter |
| Paul Morgan | died 1938 | Buchenwald | actor |
| Paul Otto | died 1943 | Berlin | actor (suicide) |
| Joseph Schmidt | died 1942 | Gyrenbad | singer, actor |
| Otto Wallburg | died 1944 | Auschwitz | actor |
| Meta Wolf | died 1941 | Berlin | actress (suicide) |
Visual arts and design
Music
Humanities
- Walter Benjamin, Philosopher (d. Port Bou/France 1940, Suicide, to avoid extradition)
- Marc Bloch, Historian (d. Saint-Didier-de-Formans 1944)
- Ludwig Brügel, Historian (d. Theresienstadt concentration camp 1942)
- Mildred Harnack, Literary historian, Translator, Resistance fighter (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1943, Executed)
- David Koker, Historian (d. while being transported from Groß-Rosen concentration camp to Dachau concentration camp 1945)
- Friedrich Münzer, Classical scholar (d. Theresienstadt concentration camp 1942)
- Elise Richter, Professor of Romance Philology (d. Theresienstadt concentration camp 1943)
- Anselm Ruest, Literary historian, Philosopher (d. Carpentras/France 1943 from the strain of flight and internment)
Mathematics and natural sciences
- Walter Arndt, Zoologist (d. Brandenburg 1944, Executed)
- Felix Auerbach, Physicist (d. Jena 1933, Suicide)
- Ludwig Berwald, Mathematician (d. Łódź Ghetto 1942)
- France Bloch-Sérazin, Chemist (d. Hamburg 1942)
- Otto Blumenthal, Mathematician (d. Theresienstadt concentration camp 1944)
- Paul Epstein, Mathematician (d. Dornbusch 1939, Suicide)
- Felix Hausdorff, Mathematician (d. Bonn 1942, Suicide)
- Friedrich Hartogs, Mathematician (d. Großhesselohe 1943, Suicide)
- Adolf Lindenbaum, Mathematician (d. Ghetto Vilnius 1941)
- Robert Remak, Mathematician (d. Auschwitz concentration camp 1942)
- Georg Rick, Mathematician (d. Theresienstadt concentration camp 1942)
- Stanislaw Saks, Mathematician (d. Warsaw (Warsaw) 1942, murdered in prison by the Gestapo)
- Juliusz Pawel Schauder, Mathematician (d. Lemberg 1943, von der Gestapo murdered)
- Alfred Tauber, Mathematician (d. Theresienstadt concentration camp 1942)
Medicine, psychology, paedagogy
- Janusz Korczak, Doctor, Educator, Writer (d. Treblinka concentration camp 1942)
- Adolf Reichwein, Educator, Politician (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
- Elisabeth von Thadden, Educator (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
- Arno Philippsthal, Doctor (d. Güsten 1933 by mistreatment in custody)
- Lucja Frey-Gottesman, Doctor, Researcher (d. Belzec concentration camp 1943, Executed)
Law, business
- Klaus Bonhoeffer, Jurist (d. Berlin, 1945, Executed)
- Hans von Dohnanyi, Jurist (d. Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1945, Executed)
- Ernst Eckstein, Jurist, Politician (d. Breslau-Dürrgoy concentration camp 1933)
- Reinhold Frank, Lawyer (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1945, Executed)
- Martin Gauger, Jurist, Pacifist (d. NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein 1941)
- Maurice Halbwachs, Sociologist, Economist, Philosopher (d. Buchenwald concentration camp 1945)
- Arvid Harnack, Jurist, National economist, Resistance fighter (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1942, Executed)
- Hans Koch, Lawyer, Resistance fighter (d. Berlin 1945, Executed)
- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Jurist (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1945, Executed)
- Karl Sack, Jurist (d. Flossenbürg concentration camp, 1945 Executed)
- Rüdiger Schleicher (d. Berlin 1945, Executed)
- Cläre Tisch, Economist (d. Minsk 1941, missing)
- Friedrich Weißler, Jurist (d. Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1937)
- Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, Jurist (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
Theology, spiritual
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian (d. Flossenbürg concentration camp 1945)
- Juliusz Bursche, evangelical regional bishop from Poland (d. Gestapo-Gefängnis Berlin-Moabit, 1942)
- Victor Dillard, Priest (d. Dachau concentration camp 1945)
- Alexander Falzmann, Priest (d. Dachau concentration camp 1942)
- Anton Fränznick, Priest (d. Dachau concentration camp 1944)
- Jakob Gapp, Priest (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1943, Executed)
- Helmut Hesse, Theologian (d. Dachau concentration camp 1943)
- Regina Jonas, Rabbi (d. Auschwitz concentration camp 1944)
- Jochen Klepper, Theologian, Journalist (d. Berlin 1942, Suicide shortly before forthcoming deportation)
- Carl Lampert, Vicar (?) (d. Halle an der Saale 1944, Executed)
- Friedrich Lorenz, Priest (d. Halle an der Saale 1944, Executed)
- Max Josef Metzger, Priest (d. Zuchthaus Brandenburg 1944, Executed)
- Kai Munk, Theologian, Writer (d. Hørbylunde/Denmark 1944, murdered by an SS-Sonderkommando)
- Paul Schneider, Clergyman (Buchenwald concentration camp 1939)
- Herbert Simoleit, Chaplain (d. Halle an der Saale 1944, Executed)
- Edith Stein, Theologian, Philosopher, Writer (d. Auschwitz concentration camp 1942)
Sport
- Werner Seelenbinder, Wrestler (d. Brandenburg an der Havel 1944, Executed)
- Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, Boxer (d. Neuengamme concentration camp 1943)
Politics, Resistance
- Edgar André, Communist (d. Hamburg 1936, Executed)
- Friedrich Aue, Communist (d. Brandenburg 1944, Executed)
- Judith Auer, Resistance fighter (d. Berlin 1944, Executed)
- Bernhard Bästlein, Communist (d. Brandenburg 1944, Executed)
- Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff, Diplomat (d. Berlin 1945, Murdered in custody)
- Cato Bontjes van Beek, Resistance fighter (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
- Rudolf Breitscheid, Social democrat (d. Buchenwald concentration camp, 1944)
- Hans Coppi, Resistance fighter (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1942, Executed)
- Hilde Coppi, Resistance fighter (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1943, Executed)
- Otto Eggerstedt, Social democrat (d. Esterwegen concentration camp 1933)
- Fritz Elsas, Politician (d. Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1945)
- Georg Elser, Manual labourer, Rotfront-Kämpfer (d. Dachau concentration camp 1945, Executed)
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Mayor of Leipzig, Putschist (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1945, Executed)
- Herschel Grynszpan, Resistance fighter (d. Ort and Datum unbekannt, wahrscheinlich im Gestapo-Gefängnis Berlin-Moabit)
- Max Habermann, Trade unionist (d. im Gefängnis von Gifhorn 1944)
- Albrecht Haushofer, Diplomat, Writer (d. Berlin-Moabit 1945, Executed)
- Rudolf Henning (d. Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1944, Executed)
- Rudolf Hilferding, Social democrat (d. Paris, 1941 in Gestapo-Haft)
- Otto Hirsch, Representation of German Jews (d. Mauthausen concentration camp, 1941)
- Camill Hoffmann, Diplomat, Writer (d. Auschwitz concentration camp 1944)
- Franz Jacob, Communist (d. Brandenburg 1944, Executed)
- Walter Krämer, Communist (d. KZ Goslar 1941, "shot while trying to escape")
- Marian Kudera, Resistance fighter (d. Dachau concentration camp 1944, Executed)
- Albert Kuntz, Communist (d. Nordhausen 1945 an den Folgen der Folter)
- Ludwig Landmann, DDP Politician, Mayor of Frankfurt am Main (d. 5. März 1945, im Versteck verhungert)
- Julius Leber, Socialist (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
- Wilhelm Leuschner, Politician (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
- Marinus van der Lubbe, Communist (d. Leipzig, 1934)
- August Lütgens, Communist (d. Amtsgericht Altona, 1933, Executed)
- Rosa Manus, Women's rights advocate (d. Ravensbrück concentration camp 1943)
- Walter Möller, Communist (d. Amtsgericht Altona, 1933, Executed)
- Ottilie Pohl, Resistance fighter (d. Theresienstadt concentration camp 1942)
- Fritz Pröll, Resistance fighter (d. Nordhausen 1944, Suicide due to threatened torture)
- Anton Saefkow, Communist, Resistance fighter (d. Zuchthaus Brandenburg 1944, Executed)
- Ernst Schneller, KPD Politician (d. Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1944, Executed)
- Werner Scholem, Communist (d. Buchenwald concentration camp 1940)
- Hans Scholl, Resistance fighter, Medical student (d. München-Stadelheim 1943, Executed)
- Sophie Scholl, Resistance fighter, Student (d. München-Stadelheim 1943, Executed)
- Bruno Tesch, Communist (d. Amtsgericht Altona, 1933, Executed)
- Ernst Thälmann, KPD Politician (d. Buchenwald concentration camp 1944, Executed)
- Mathias Thesen (d. Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1944, Executed)
- Adam von Trott zu Solz, Diplomat (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
- Karl Wolff, Communist (d. Amtsgericht Altona, 1933, Executed)
Military
- Ludwig Beck, General, Putschist (d. Berlin 1944, Shot)
- Wilhelm Canaris, Military information service (d. Flossenbürg concentration camp 1945, Executed)
- Erich Fellgiebel, Officer (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed
- Werner von Haeften, Jurist, Adjutant of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (d. Berlin 1944, Shot)
- Erich Hoepner, demoted Colonel General, member of Military opposition about Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, (d. Berlin-Plötzensee, Executed)
- Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, General, Putschist (d. Berlin 1944, Shot)
- Friedrich Olbricht, General, Putschist (d. Berlin 1944, Shot)
- Hans Oster, Chief of staff (d. Flossenbürg concentration camp 1945, Executed)
- Harro Schulze-Boysen, Officer, Publicist (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1942, Executed)
- Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Chief of staff of General Army Office, Putschist (d. Berlin 1944, Shot)
- Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Military commander in Occupied France (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
- Henning von Tresckow, Major General, Putschist (d. near Ostrov, Russia 1944, Suicide)
- Erwin von Witzleben, Field Marshal (retired) (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1944, Executed)
Paranormal, occultism
- Karl Ernst Krafft, Astrologer, Occultist (d. during transport to Buchenwald concentration camp 1945)
In the fields: List of known victims of Nazism (to cleanup)
- (includes people who survived...)
- Olga Benario-Prestes (),
- Menachem Birnbaum (),
- Mordecai Gebirtig (),
- Peter Hammerschlag (),
- Felix Hausdorff (),
- Georg Hermann (),
- Henri Hinrichsen (),
- Else Hirsch (),
- Jenische (),
- Kinder von Izieu (),
- Alfred Klahr (),
- Julius Klinger (),
- Gertrud Kolmar (),
- Salo Landau (),
- Agathe Lasch (),
- Fritz Löhner-Beda (),
- Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (),
- Julius Moses (),
- Robert Remak (),
- Nico Richter (),
- Emanuel Ringelblum (),
- Alma Rosé (),
- Isidor Isaak Sadger (),
- Erich Salomon (),
- Otto Josef Schlein (),
- Zikmund Schul (),
- Leo Smit (),
- Hona Lissauova/Hona Lissauová (),
This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, lost their lives as a result of Nazism. People who died in concentration camps are listed alongside those who were murdered by the National Socialists or who from political motives or to avoid being murdered chose suicide.
See also
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