Primo Levi

Primo Levi

male, deceased (1987)
Primo Michele Levi, from the Province of Turin, Italian resistance member, writer, Holocaust, Jewish…auschwitz, Nazi concentration camp survivor, auschwitzconcentrationcamp, Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems,...
Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian Kolbe

male, deceased (1941)
Catholic martyr of Modern Times, pro-life movement, drug addicts, Families, prisoner, death by starvation…auschwitz, auschwitzconcentrationcamp, Nazi concentration camp victim, nazi concentration camp
Maximilian Kolbe, also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and "Apostle of Consecration to Mary," born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish...
Rudolf Vrba

Rudolf Vrba

male, deceased (2006)
cancer death, Slovak Canadian, BC BookWorld, Czechoslovak immigrants to Canada, University of British Columbia, Pharmacologist…Nazi concentration camp survivor, auschwitzconcentrationcamp, appointed registrar in the quarantine camp for men
Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg, was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. In April 1944, Vrba and his...

Rudolf Höß

male, deceased (1947)
Hoeß, Hoess, polish, Holocaust perpetrator, hoss, execution…auschwitzconcentrationcamp, Auschwitz concentration camp personnel, Executed Nazi concentration camp personnel
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss or rarely Hoeß; November 251900; April 161947) was an "SS-Obersturmbannführer" (Lt....
Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki

male, deceased (1948)
execution, auschwitzconcentrationcamp, polish, Nazi Germany, warsaw uprising, Polish resistance fighter…Nazi concentration camp survivor
Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 - May 25, 1948; pronounced ['vitɔld pi'leʦki]; codenames "Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold") was a sol...
Edith Stein

Edith Stein

female, deceased (1942)
Jewish, Carmelite spirituality, Catholic martyr of Modern Times, German native of Silesia, Orthodox Judaism, University of Göttingen…auschwitzconcentrationcamp, Nazi concentration camp victim, auschwitz
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 - August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at...
Rutka Laskier

Rutka Laskier

female, deceased (1943)
Jewish, Holocaust, polish, Diarist, Nazi concentration camp victim, Jewish person…auschwitzconcentrationcamp
Rutka Laskier (1929-1943) was a Jewish teenager from Poland who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling four months of her life during the...

Mel Mermelstein

male, 83 years old
case no. c356542, declaratory relief, anticipatory repudiation, injurious denial of established fact, intentional infliction of emotional distress, LA Times…auschwitzconcentrationcamp, auschwitz
Mel Mermelstein is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp who defeated the Institute for...
Eduard Wirths

Eduard Wirths

male, deceased (1945)
Holocaust perpetrator, auschwitzconcentrationcamp, committed suicide, auschwitz, Nazi physician, suicide by hanging…Auschwitz concentration camp personnel
Dr. Eduard Wirths was the Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths...
Tadeusz Borowski

Tadeusz Borowski

male, deceased (1951)
poet, Nazi German authorities, Natzweiler-Struthof, committed suicide, Nazi Germany, Warsaw University alumni…auschwitz, concentration camp, Nazi concentration camp survivor, auschwitzconcentrationcamp
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) was a Polish writer and journalist, and a Holocaust survivor. Tadeusz Borowski was born in 1922 into the Polish...