- Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. - Aribert Heim
Aribert Heim (born June 28, 1914) is a former Austrian doctor. As an SS doctor in a concentration camp in Mauthausen (where many thousands were killed, primarily European Jews, but also others who were persecuted under the Nazi regime including Spanish Republicans were sent), he is accused of killing many inmates with sadistic methods, such as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims without any anaesthetic. - Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D., (March 26, 1905 - September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy and Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy. His book "Man's Search for Meaning" (first published in 1946) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, … - Jean-Claude Pressac
Jean-Claude Pressac (1944 - July 23, 2003) was a French chemist and pharmacist who became a published authority on the Holocaust of World War II. Pressac was originally a Holocaust denier who, with Robert Faurisson, attempted to disprove what he considered historically inaccurate depictions of the concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau as extermination camps. - Paul Rassinier
Paul Rassinier (1906-1967) was a French pacifist, political activist and author. He was also an anti-Nazi French Resistance fighter, and a victim of the German concentration camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. A journalist and editor, he wrote hundreds of articles on political and economic subjects, but has come to be remembered for his views on the Holocaust, which have caused some to call him the "father of Holocaust Denial". - Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch, born Ilse Köhler, was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941 and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. Ilse is infamous for taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. Claims that she had a lampshade made out of human skin have never been verified and were discounted at her post-war trial.. - Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer (November 10, 1906 - December 13, 1945) was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dubbed "The Beast of Belsen" by camp inmates; he was one of the most notorious of Nazi war criminals, directly responsible for the deaths of many thousands of people. He was convicted of war crimes and hanged in Hameln prison after World War II. - Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (May 11, 1897 - November 15, 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director during the Nazi period. Born Kurt Gerson to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany, Gerron initially studied medicine but became a stage actor in 1920. He appeared in such films as "The Blue Angel" opposite Marlene Dietrich, and on stage originated the role of Brown (the chief of police in London) in the premiere production of "Die Dreigroschenoper" in Berlin in 1928. - Martin Sherman
Martin Sherman (b. 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a screen writer and playwright, the son of Joseph T. Sherman and Julia Shermanof. He is openly gay, and has lived in London since 1980. Sherman attended the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and received a BFA in dramatic arts in 1960. His most successful film was adapted from the original script, Alive and Kicking/Indian Summer, which he authored himself. For Broadway and West End he is best known for Bent, … - Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is a Jewish Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". Kertész' best-known work, Fatelessness ("Sorstalanság"), describes the experience of a fifteen-year-old boy in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz. - Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke was a Nazi official, "SS-Obergruppenführer", commander of the SS-Division (mot) "Totenkopf" of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His Nazi Party number was 114901 and his SS number was 2921. He is most remembered for personally executing SA Chief Ernst Röhm following the Night of the Long Knives. - Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) was a Polish writer and journalist, and a Holocaust survivor. Tadeusz Borowski was born in 1922 into the Polish community in Zhytomir, Ukraine, then part of the USSR. His parents became victims of the USSR spy-hunting psychosis. In 1926, his father, whose bookstore had been nationalized by the communists, was sent to a gulag in Karelia. His mother was arrested later the same year and sent to a gulag in Siberia, … - Carlo Mattogno
Carlo Mattogno (born in 1951 in Orvieto, Italy) is an Italian Holocaust denier. In 1985 Mattogono published the book "The Myth of the Extermination of the Jews" and in the same year the booklet "The Gerstein Report - Anatomy of a Fraud" (see also: Gerstein Report). Both publications are devoted to disputing the genocide in the Nazi concentration camps and death camps. Mattogno is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Historical Review, … - Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld (born February 16, 1932 in Czernowitz, Romania) is an Israeli novelist. In 1940, the Nazis invaded his hometown. His mother was killed and Appelfeld, a boy of eight, was deported with his father to a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped and hid for three years before joining the Soviet Army as a cook. After World War II, Appelfeld spent several months in a displaced persons camp in Italy before immigrating to Palestine in 1946, … - Folke Bernadotte
Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg was a Swedish diplomat noted for his negotiation of the release of about 15,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen by the victorious powers to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1947-1948. - John Banner
John Banner (January 28, 1910, (Vienna) - January 28, 1973, (Vienna)) was a Jewish Austrian actor. Ironically, he is best known for his role as a World War II German soldier, the comedic Sgt. Hans Schultz on the television situation comedy "Hogan's Heroes". On this show, he had this famous saying "I know nothing! Nothing!" Banner was born in Vienna, Austria. - Mother Maria
Mother Maria, born "Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko" (Елизавета Юрьевна Пиленко), "Kuzmina-Karavayeva" (Кузьмина-Караваева) by her first marriage, "Skobtsova" (Скобцова) by her second marriage, was a Russian noble lady, poetess, nun, and member of the French Resistance movement during World War II. She died in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. - Richard Baer
Richard Baer was a Nazi official with the rank of "SS-Sturmbannführer" (major) and commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945. He was a member of N.S.D.A.P. (no. 454991) and the SS (no. 44225). Baer was born in Bavaria in 1911; originally a confectioner, he became a guard in Dachau concentration camp after becoming unemployed in 1930. - Anne Holm
Anne Holm, born Else Annelise Jørgensen was a Danish journalist and children's writer. She spent part of her life in the United States. At times she also wrote under the pseudonym "Adrien de Chandelle". Her books are typically recommended to age groups 8-16 years, but they include elements even for adult readers. - Germaine Tillion
Germaine Tillion is a French anthropologist, best known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the French government. Tillion was born in Allègre in Haute-Loire. Studying anthropology under Marcel Mauss, she lived in Algeria on various occasions between between 1934 and 1940, studying the Berber and Chaoui people in the Aures region of northeastern Algeria. During World War II, Tillion participated in the French Resistance. - John Sack
John Sack (1930-2004) was an American literary journalist. He was the only journalist to cover each American war over half a century. He was born to a Jewish family on 1930 March 24 in New York City. His work has appeared in such periodicals as "Harper's", "The Atlantic", "Esquire (magazine)" and "The New Yorker". He has been a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, as well as CBS News bureau chief in Spain. - Etty Hillesum
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands-November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life under Nazi rule in Amsterdam during the the German occupation of World War II. They were published posthumously in The Netherlands in 1981, before being translated into English in 1983. - Sigmund Rascher
Sigmund Rascher (born February 12, 1909 in Munich, executed April 26, 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp) was a German SS doctor. To the public of the post World War II era, he represented, especially in the media of the United States, the archetype of the villainous Nazi doctor. His deadly experiments on humans, planned and executed in the Concentration Camp of Dachau, were judged inhumane and villainous during the Nuremberg Trials. - Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker, best known for "La battaglia di Algeri" ("The Battle of Algiers") although he directed several movies before its release in 1966, such as the drama "Kapò" (1960), which takes place in a World War II concentration camp. He was nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1969 and in that same year won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, both for "The Battle of Algiers". - Wilhelm Stäglich
Wilhelm Stäglich was a World War II Luftwaffe officer, later a financial judge in Hamburg, and a prominent Holocaust denier. In 1974 a disciplinary hearing was enacted against Stäglich, then a financial judge, owing to his membership of the far-right NPD party and his incessant publications in far-right magazines; the result was a forced early retirement with a reduced pension for five years. - Emily Hobhouse
Emily Hobhouse (April 9, 1860-June 8, 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the appalling conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War. - Peter van Pels
Peter van Pels (November 8, 1926 - "c" May 5, 1945), was a German Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and six other people in the Secret Annex on the Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who died in the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the published version of Anne Frank's diary he was given the pseudonym Peter van Daan. - Karl Linnas
Karl Linnas is an Estonian who was sentenced to capital punishment during the Estonian war crimes trials, 1961. In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, NY stripped 67-year-old Linnas of his US citizenship for having lied to immigration officials thirty years earlier about his Nazi past. Linnas's crimes, the judge said, "were such as to offend the decency of any civilized society." From 1941 to 1943 Linnas had commanded a Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, … - Petr Ginz
Petr Ginz was a young Jewish boy who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp, during the Holocaust. At age fifteen, Ginz was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died in a gas chamber. Ginz was a very talented boy. At the age of fourteen, he became the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine "Vedem", written, edited, and illustrated entirely by young boys at Terezín. He also wrote an Esperanto-Czech dictionary. - Amon Göth
Amon Leopold Göth was a "Hauptsturmführer" of the SS and was the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, Poland. - Carl Clauberg
Dr Carl Clauberg (September 28, 1898-August 9, 1957) was a German medical doctor who conducted medical experiments on human beings in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz. Carl Clauberg was born in 1898 in "Wupperhof" near Solingen, Germany, into a family of craftsmen. During the First World War he served as an infantryman. - Arthur Liebehenschel
Arthur Liebehenschel was the commandant of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II. Liebehenschel was born in Posen (Poznań) and studied economics and public administration. He became a sergeant major after World War I. In 1932, he joined the Nazi party and in 1934, the SS, where he served in the "Totenkopfverbände". Liebehenschel then held a series of ranks in the administration of concentration camps. - Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber (9 December, 1868 - 29 January, 1934) was a German chemist, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development of synthetic ammonia, important for fertilizers and explosives. He is also credited as the "father of chemical warfare" for his work developing and deploying chlorine and other poison gases during World War I. Despite his contributions to the German war effort, … - Titus Brandsma
Blessed Titus Brandsma (Bolsward, February 23, 1881 - Dachau July 26, 1942) was a Dutch Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazist ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second World War. He was arrested in January 1942, when he tried to persuade Dutch Catholic newspapers not to print Nazi propaganda (as was required by law). He was transferred to the concentration camp Dachau on June 13, … - Richard Glücks
Richard Glücks was a high-ranking Nazi official. He attained the rank of a SS-"Gruppenführer" and a "Generalleutnant" of the Waffen-SS and was from 1939 until the end of World War II as the head of "Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen" of the WVHA the highest-ranking "Inspector of Concentration Camps" in Nazi Germany. Close to Himmler, he was directly responsible for the forced labour of the camp inmates, … - Hans Kammler
General Dr Hans Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler was an engineer and high-ranking officer of the SS. He oversaw SS construction projects, and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile programme. Kammler was born in Stettin, Germany. In 1919, after volunteering for army service, he served in the Rossbach Freikorps. From 1919 to 1923 he studied civil engineering in Munich and Danzig. - Felix Nussbaum
Felix Nussbaum, known mostly for his surrealist paintings, was born in 1904, in Osnabrueck, Germany. He had an older brother which was 27.He had parents called Rahel and Phillip Nussbaum. Philip was a WWI veteran and German patriot before the rise of the Nazis. He was an amateur painter when he was younger, but was forced to pursue other means of work for financial reasons. He therefore encouraged his son’s artwork passionately. - Chaim Herzog
Chaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel (1983–1993), following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). - Hana Brady
Hana Brady (May 16, 1931 in Nové Město na Moravě - 1944) was a Jewish girl and Holocaust victim. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book "Hana's Suitcase" by Karen Levine. Along with her brother George, Hana was imprisoned by the Nazis as a Jew, and sent to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) prison camp. In 1944 she was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp. While her brother survived imprisonment by working as a laborer, Hana was killed. - Rudolf Brandt
Rudolf Brandt (June 2, 1909, Frankfurt (Oder) - June 2, 1948), was a SS officer and civil servant. A lawyer by profession, Brandt was Personal Administrative Officer to the Reichsführer SS ("Persoenlicher Referent von Himmler") Heinrich Himmler, and a defendant at the Doctors' Trial. From 1938, he was Himmler’s personal aide and the Ministerial Councilor and Head of the Minister's Office in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.
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