Mel Mermelstein is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp who defeated the Institute for Historical Review in an American court and had the occurrence of gassings in Auschwitz during the Holocaust declared a legally incontestable fact. Before World War II broke out, Mermelstein lived in Munkacs, in Ukraine. On May 19, 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz along with the rest of the Jewish community.

Samuel Bak is an artist and a Holocaust survivor.

Yankel Wiernik was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp revolt of 1943. Since Weirnik’s escape he has published his account of his time in the camp its title: ‘A Year in Treblinka'. 'A Year in Treblinka' is the story of Wiernik's experiences in Treblinka where he witnessed the tragic loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.

Yosef Goldman, a scholar of American Jewish history, is the author of the two-volume reference work, "Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography" (2006). This work is usually cited by auctioneers and rare-book dealers. His collection of early American Judaica and Hebraica is purported to be one of the most comprehensive in the world. Goldman was born in 1942 in Neupest (now Újpest), a suburb of Budapest, Hungary, …

Imre Lakatos was a philosopher of mathematics and science.

Rudolf (Rezső) Kastner (Kasztner), also known as Israel (Yisrael) Kastner was the "de facto" head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest known as the "Va'adat Ezrah Vehatzalah" ("Vaada"), or Aid and Rescue Committee, during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II. As the head of the "Vaada", he was one of the conduits between the Nazis and the Jewish community in Hungary.

Markiyan Dimidov is a Ukrainian concentration camp survivor who was only eight in 1943 when Nazis set fire to his 3-year-old sister, Feofania, in a shed in a Belarus forest, along with his grandmother, great-grandmother and 2-year old cousin. Six decades later, Dimidov gained a small measure of compensation for that suffering, €7,670 (US$10,000), from the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme.

Rabbbi Aharon Moishe (Moses) Leifer, was the third Rebbe of Khust. Leifer traveled from Budapest to Khust in 1943 to remove his parents from Khust. After surviving the Holocaust, he came to the United States. His two sons are the current Khuster Rebbes. One resides in Bet Shemesh, Israel (formerly of Toronto, Canada), and the other lives in the Brooklyn, NY.

Rabbi Aharon (or Ahroyn, Aaron, Aron) Kotler (1891 - 1962) was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United States of America, where he built one of the first yeshivas in the US.

Yisrael (Israel) Meir Lau is currently the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel. He previously served as the Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi from 1993 to 2003.

Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (1878-1966) was a noted rabbi, author of "Seridei Eish"

Joseph Joffo (1931) is a French author. He is a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction but perhaps best known in France and abroad for his memoirs "Un Sac de Billes" (A Bag of Marbles), which has been translated into eighteen languages. The memoirs, written in a novel fashion, tell the account of Joffo as a young boy during the Holocaust.

Yaakov Avigdor (also Jacob) (1896-1967) was a Polish rabbi, author and Holocaust survivor, who served as Chief Rabbi of Mexico.

Paul (Pál) Turán was a mathematician who made contributions in number theory, group theory and approximation theory. He proved one of the first major results in extremal graph theory. He wrote several papers with Paul Erdős. Turán was sent to labour camps at various times from 1940 to 1944. He is said to have been recognized and perhaps protected by a fascist guard, who, as a mathematics student, had admired Turán's work. He was married twice and had 3 sons.

Refael Reuvain Grozovsky (b. 1896, Minsk, Belarus - d. 1958, United States) was a leading Orthodox rabbi, Jewish religious leader and rosh yeshiva ("dean") known for his Talmudic analytical style.

Rabbi Pesach Yitzhak Stein (1918 - 2002) was a renowned Rosh Yeshiva at the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio.