Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

male, deceased (1992) (Israel)
buried at the Mount of Olives, Warsaw University alumni, Former Member of the Knesset, Nobel Prize winner, belarusian, Polish-Jewish…Belarusborn
"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the fi...

Tadeusz Kościuszko

male, deceased (1817)
brevet, brevetted, Imperial Russia, polish, lithuanian, Continental Army general…Belarusborn
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish, Lithuanian national hero, general and a leader of the 1794 uprising (which bears his name) a...
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

male, deceased (1926)
Old Bolshevik, Cheka, polish language, communist, polish, Russian…Belarusborn
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский, Belarusian: Фелікс Эдмундавіч Дзяржынскі;...

Ignacy Hryniewiecki

male, deceased (1881)
belarusian, revolutionary, polish language, polish, Regicide, tsar…Belarusborn
Ignacy Hryniewiecki (Polish name; ; ; pseudonym "Kotik", Russian for "Kitten"; August 1855 or autumn 1856 – 1881) was a Polish revolutionary and th...
Seymour Lubetzky

Seymour Lubetzky

male, deceased (2003)
universal bibliographic control, University of California, Los Angeles faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Belarusborn, UCLA, Polyglot
Seymour Lubetzky (April 28, 1898-April 5, 2003) was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky,...
Bronislaw Kaminski

Bronislaw Kaminski

male, deceased (1944)
Russian, Nazi Germany, waffen ss, SS general, Executed military personnel, Nazi collaborator…Belarusborn
Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski (Russian: Бронислав Каминский) (16 June 1899, Vitebsk - 28 August 1944, Litzmannstadt) was the commander of the R...
S. Ansky

S. Ansky

male, deceased (1920)
An-ski, General Jewish Labour Union, Podolia, The Dybbuk, Narodnik, Vitebsk…Belarusborn
Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863, Vitebsk -1920, Otwock), better known by the pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-ski), was a scholar who documented Jewish...
Ryszard Kapuściński

Ryszard Kapuściński

male, deceased (2007)
war correspondent, communist, Communism, poet, Belarusborn, Pinsk
Ryszard Kapuściński was a popular Polish journalist, author, publicist and poet both at home and abroad. Born in Pińsk, a city that was formerly loc...
Ignacy Domeyko

Ignacy Domeyko

male, deceased (1889)
Geographer, Minsk Governorate, Ecole des Mines, Geologist, polish, lithuanian…Belarusborn
Ignacy Domeyko ; July 31, 1802 - January 23, 1889, Santiago de Chile) was a famous 19th century Polish geologist and mineralogist from the former...
Eliza Orzeszkowa

Eliza Orzeszkowa

female, deceased (1910)
sketch story, Polish women writer, Polish nobility, Women essayist, January 1863 Uprising, Women novelist…Belarusborn
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist, was born near Hrodna (now Belarus), to the noble Pawłowski family. In her sixteenth year she married Piotr O...