Gideon Klein

Gideon Klein

male, deceased (1945)
Gideon Klein was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music. He was born in Přerov and, showing musical talent early, studied piano with R...
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

female, deceased (1944)
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (July 30, 1898 - October 9, 1944), was a Viennese artist. She was a student of Johannes Itten at his private school in...
Petr Ginz

Petr Ginz

male
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 A...

Milada Horáková

female, deceased (1950)
Milada Horáková was a Czechoslovak politician executed by Communists on trumped-up charges of conspiracy and treason. As a one of few women ever ex...

Ivan Klíma

male, 78 years old
Ivan Klíma is a famous contemporary Czech novelist and playwright. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Less well known than t...

Karel Ančerl

male, deceased (1973)
Karel Ančerl was a great Czech conductor, respected for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech c...
Zuzana Justman

Zuzana Justman

female, 78 years old
Zuzana Justman is a native of the former Czechoslovakia, which she left in 1948. As an American, she lives and works in New York, New York as film...
Hana Greenfield

Hana Greenfield

female
Hana Greenfield was born in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, from where she was deported to Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Hana is the author of...
Gustav Flatow

Gustav Flatow

male, deceased (1945)
Gustav Felix Flatow was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Gustav Flatow...
Maximilian Kaller

Maximilian Kaller

male, deceased (1947)
Maximilian Kaller in East Prussia from 1930 - 1945. Kaller was born in 1880 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany. He was a priest in Breslau and in...