Uku Masing lived in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia). After studying theology, Uku Masing became a professor at the Dorpat Theology Faculty, teaching Semitic languages and the Old Testament. When German…
In July 1941 German troops invaded Valentīna Löwenstein’s home town of Riga (Latvia). Like all Jews, the Löwenstein family were robbed of their rights and persecuted.
Valentīna Löwenstein married…
Chaika Grossman lived with her parents and two siblings in Białystok (Poland). She joined the socialist Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair at the age of ten. In the fall of 1939 she began…
Emīlija Gajevska worked in Riga (Latvia) as a housekeeper for the Jewish lawyer Andrzej Blankenstein. She met the Jewish Löwenstein family through him.
Soon after the Wehrmacht occupied Latvia in…
The Greek Catholic priest Pavol Peter Gojdič was an opponent of the Slovak regime under the dictator Jozef Tiso. In 1939 he wrote a pastoral letter criticizing the country’s nationalist and…
The police officer František Makovský worked as a guard in the Theresienstadt ghetto. He helped Jewish people who were incarcerated there under inhumane conditions.
In 1943 František Makovský…
Johanna Novicka grew up in a farming family with six siblings in Eleja. In 1920 she married the dock worker Jānis Lipke and the couple moved to Riga. During the German occupation from the summer of…
In the 1920s, Jānis Lipke was a dock worker in Riga and took part in underground communist activities. He lived on an island in the River Daugava with his wife and two children.
During the German…
At the age of 18, Nadezhda Kreso lived with her parents in Minsk and studied law. After the Wehrmacht’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, her father Andrei Kreso was drafted into the Red…
In 1941 eleven-year-old Eva Löwidtová was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto with her parents. From there, the family was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp at the end of 1944. Eva’s…
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