Max Maurer, the son of a farmer, became a police officer like two of his brothers. In 1935 he moved to Ergoldsbach, a village in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut. On April 27, 1945, his friend…
Vojtech Kolenka worked in a grocery store in Poprad, Slovakia. The store was owned by the Jewish brothers Gejza and Pavel Spitzer, who were friends of Kolenka’s. When the brothers were expropriated…
The doctor Pavel Gerdjikov ran the internal medicine department of a military hospital near the Bulgarian capital Sofia from 1941.
In March 1943 he distributed medicines to Jews about to be deported…
Marianna Spitzerová lived with her parents Janka and Pavel Spitzer and her older sister Zuzana in Poprad, Slovakia. Her father ran a grocery store there with his brother Gejza. A friend of the…
Rubin Dimitrov was born in the Bulgarian city of Russe and raised in the capital Sofia. He was a salesman and had some Jewish business partners, some of whom were good friends of his.
An…
When the German Wehrmacht attacked Warsaw in September 1939, the activist and social worker Eugenia Wąsowska was working for the Polish Red Cross. She organized soup kitchens for needy Warsaw…
Gérald Finaly lived in La Tronche in southern France with his older brother Robert and their parents, who had fled from Austria. When Gérald was twenty months old, his parents were deported to…
Presumably in February 1943, the 40-year-old Jewish woman Lucie Friedlaender had to go underground. During the first two weeks she was hidden by Luise and Willy Kroll in the couple’s…
Benjamin Kabiljo lived with his parents, Jozef and Rivka, and his younger sister Tova in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Benjamin Kabiljo was 14 years old in 1941. That April, the family’s apartment was struck…
Leon Feiner, a lawyer, worked as an activist and journalist for the Jewish Labor Bund in Kraków. When the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939, Feiner fled the city. While crossing the border…
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