This list is sorted by occupation and within by nationality.
| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements
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| Georg Hermann | died 1943 Auschwitz | | writer
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| Franz Hessel | died 1941 Sanary-sur-Mer | | author, translator
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| Mordechai Gebirtig | 1877-1942 | | Yiddish poet, musician and composer
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| Jakob van Hoddis | died 1942 Sobibór | | writer
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| Milena Jesenská | died 1944 Ravensbrück | | journalist
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| Marcell Klang | died 1942 Mauthausen | | writer
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| Jochen Klepper | died 1942 suicide in Berlin | | writer
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| Erich Knauf | died 1944 in Brandenburg | | journalist, poet
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| Gertrud Kolmar | died 1943 Auschwitz | | writer
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| Anton de Kom | died 1945 in Neuengamme | | author, human rights activist
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| Alma Maria König | died 1942 in Minsk | | writer
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| Adam Kuckhoff | died 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee | | writer, dramatist, resistance fighter
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| Walter Landauer | died 1944 Bergen-Belsen | | publisher
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| Walter Lindenbaum | died 1945 Buchenwald | | writer
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| Philip Mechanicus | died 1945 Auschwitz | | journalist
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| Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger | died 1942 | | writer
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| Erich Mühsam | died 1934 Oranienburg | | writer, anarchist
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| Willi Münzenberg | died 1940 suicide/murder in France | | publisher, politician
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| Irène Némirovsky | died 1942 Auschwitz | | writer
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| Carl von Ossietzky | died 1938 Berlin | | publicist
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| Ruth Rewald | died 1942 Auschwitz | | writer
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| Erich Salomon | died 1944 Auschwitz | | photojournalist
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| Libertas Schulze-Boysen | died 1942 Berlin-Plötzensee | | film critic, resistance fighter
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| Jura Soyfer | died 1939 Buchenwald | | writer
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| Else Ury | died 1943 Auschwitz | | writer
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| David Vogel | died 1944/5 Auschwitz | | writer
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| Ernst Weiss | died 1940 suicide, Paris | | writer
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| Theodor Wolff | died 1943 Berlin | | writer, publicist
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| Stefan Zweig | died 1942 suicide, Brazil | | writer
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| Else Feldmann | 1884-1942 | Austrian | writer and journalist
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| Egon Friedell | 1878-1938 | Austrian | writer and philosopher
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| Peter Hammerschlag | 1902-1942 | Austrian | writer and graphic artist
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| Jura Soyfer | 1912-1939 | Austrian | journalist
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| Yitzhak Katzenelson | 1886-1944 | Belarussian | teacher, writer
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| Petr Ginz | 1928–1944 | Czech | editor of Vedem
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| Julius Fučík | 1903-1943 | Czech | resistance leader
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| Paul Kornfeld | 1889-1942 | Czech | writer
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| Karel Poláček | 1892-1944 | Czech | writer
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| Vladislav Vančura | 1891-1942 Prague | Czech | writer, doctor
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| Etty Hillesum | 1914-1943 Auschwitz | Dutch | writer, diary author
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| Helga Deen | 1925-1943 | Dutch | author of a published diary
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| Benjamin Fondane | 1898-1944 | French | poet, literary critic
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| Walter Benjamin | 1892-1940 | German | literary critic and philosopher
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| Felix Fechenbach | 1894-1933 | German | journalist and activist
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| Anne Frank | 1929-1945 | German | author of a published diary
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| Walter Hasenclever | 1890-1940 | German | expressionist writer
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| Friedrich Münzer | 1868-1942 | German | philologist
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| Miklós Radnóti | 1909-1944 | Hungarian | poet
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| Antal Szerb | 1901-1945 | Hungarian | writer, literary scholar
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| Bruno Schulz | 1892-1942 | Polish | writer
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| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements
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| Ernst Arndt | died 1942/3 Treblinka | | Film actor
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| Maria Bard | died 1944 suicide, Berlin? | | actress (suicide)
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| Hans Behrendt | died 1942 en route to Auschwitz | | film director, screenplay writer, actor
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| Horst Birr | died 1944 Berlin | | actor, film comedian
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| Eugen Burg | died 1944 Theresienstadt | | actor
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| Robert Dorsay | died 1941 suicide, Bremen | | actor
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| Max Ehrlich | died 1944 Auschwitz | | actor
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| Kurt Gerron | died 1944 Theresienstadt | | actor
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| Dora Gerson | died 1943 Auschwitz | | actress, singer
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| Emil Goldmann | died 1942 Mauthausen | | film director
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| Joachim Gottschalk | died 1941 suicide, Berlin | | actor
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| Fritz Grünbaum | died 1941 Dachau | | actor
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| Hans Henninger | died 1937 suicide, Ort? | | film actor
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| Kurt Lilien | died 1943 Sobibór | | actor
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| Hans Meyer-Hanno | died 1945 Berlin | | film actor, stage designer, draughtsman, resistance fighter
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| Paul Morgan | died 1938 Buchenwald | | actor
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| Paul Otto | died 1943 suicide, Berlin | | actor
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| Joseph Schmidt | died 1942 Gyrenbad | | singer, actor
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| Otto Wallburg | died 1944 Auschwitz | | actor
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| Meta Wolf | died 1941 suicide, Berlin | | actress
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| Hana Brady | 1931-1944 | Czech | girl portrayed in Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
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| René Blum | 1878-1942 | French | founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra à Monte Carlo
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| Kurt Gerron | 1887-1944 | German | performer, actor, film director
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| Dora Gerson | 1899-1943 | German | actress, cabaret singer
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| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements
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| Alma del Banco | died 1943 suicide, Hamburg | | painter, graphic artist
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| Otti Berger | died 1944 Auschwitz | | textile artist
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| Josef Čapek | died 1945 Bergen-Belsen | | painter, draughtsman, illustrator, writer
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| Ernst Epstein | died 1938 suicide, Vienna | | architect
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| Henri Epstein | died 1944 Auschwitz | | painter
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| Otto Freundlich | died 1943 Majdenek | | painter, graphic artist, sculptor, philosopher
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| Bedrich Fritta (Fritz Taussig)
| died 1944 Auschwitz | | illustrator, caricaturist
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| Peter Kien | died 1944 Auschwitz | | painter, poet
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| Imre Kinszki | died 1945 Sachsenhausen | | photographer, writer
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | died 1938 suicide, Davos | | painter
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| Julo Levin | died 1943 Auschwitz | | painter
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| Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler | died 1940 Aktion T4 victim, Pirna | | painter
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| Käthe Löwenthal | died 1942 Izbica | | painter
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| Valentin Nagel | died 1942 Munich | | painter
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| František Moric Nágl | died 1944 Auschwitz | | painter
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| Else Neulaender-Simon (Yva)
| died 1942 Majdanek | | photographer
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| Felix Nussbaum | died 1944 Auschwitz | | painter
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| Erich Ohser (e.o. plauen)
| died 1944 suicide before execution, Berlin | | caricaturist, painter
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| Nicolaus Rossini | died 1943 Kraków-Płaszów | | painter
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| Hubert Rüther | died 1945 Dresden | | painter
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| Franz Graf Schaffgotsch | died 1942 Dubrovnik | | painter
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| Malvina Schalková | died 1942 Auschwitz | | painter
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| Luise Straus-Ernst | died 1944 Auschwitz | | artist and art historian
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| Heinrich Tischler | died 1938 en route to Buchenwald | | painter
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| Friedl Dicker-Brandeis | 1896-1944 | Austrian | artist
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| Felix Nussbaum | 1904-1944 | Austrian | painter
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| Josef Čapek | 1887-1945 | Czech | painter, writer
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| Samuel J. de Mesquita
| 1868-1944 | Dutch | painter and designer
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| Abraham Icek Tuschinski | 1886-1942 | Dutch | designer of the Tuschinski Theater
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| Max Jacob | 1876-1944 | French | artist
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| Charlotte Salomon | 1917-1943 Auschwitz | German | painter
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| Jan Rubczak | 1884-1942 | Polish | painter, graphic artist
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| Nicolaus Rossini | 1898-1943 | Polish | artist, wartime hero
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| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements
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| Klaus Bonhoeffer | died 1945 executed, Berlin | | jurist
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| Hans von Dohnanyi | died 1945 executed, Sachsenhausen | | jurist
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| Ernst Eckstein | died 1933 Breslau-Dürrgoy | | jurist, politician
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| Reinhold Frank | died 1945 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | lawyer
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| Martin Gauger | died 1941 NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein | | jurist, pacifist
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| Maurice Halbwachs | died 1945 Buchenwald | | sociologist, economist, philosopher
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| Helmuth James Graf von Moltke | d. 1945 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | jurist
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| Karl Sack | d. 1945 executed, Flossenbürg | | jurist
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| Rüdiger Schleicher | d. 1945 executed, Berlin | |
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| Cläre Tisch | d. 1941 missing, Minsk | | economist
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| Friedrich Weißler | d. 1937 Sachsenhausen | | jurist
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| Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg | d. 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | jurist
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| Arvid Harnack | died 1942 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | jurist, national economist, resistance fighter
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| Hans Koch | died 1945 executed, Berlin | | lawyer, resistance fighter
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| Elisabeth de Rothschild | 1902-1945 | French | wife of Baron Philippe de Rothschild
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| Franz Kaufmann | 1886-1944 | German | jurist
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| Kazimierz Proszyński | 1875-1945 | Polish | inventor
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| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements
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| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | died 1945 (executed) Flossenbürg | | theologian
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| Juliusz Bursche | died 1942 Gestapo-Gefängnis Berlin-Moabit | | evangelical regional bishop from Poland
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| Victor Dillard | died 1945 Dachau | | priest
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| Alexander Falzmann | died 1942 Dachau | | priest
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| Anton Fränznick | died 1944 Dachau | | priest
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| Jakob Gapp | died 1943 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | priest
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| Helmut Hesse | died 1943 Dachau | | theologian
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| Regina Jonas | d. 1944 Auschwitz | | Rabbi
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| Jochen Klepper | d. 1942 suicide shortly before deportation, Berlin | | theologian, journalist
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| Carl Lampert | d. 1944 executed, Halle an der Saale | | vicar?
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| Friedrich Lorenz | d. 1944 executed, Halle an der Saale | | priest
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| Max Josef Metzger | d. 1944 executed, Zuchthaus Brandenburg | | priest
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| Kai Munk | d. 1944, murdered by an SS-Sonderkommando, Hørbylunde/Denmark | | theologian, writer
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| Paul Schneider | d. 1939 Buchenwald | | clergyman
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| Herbert Simoleit | d. 1944 executed, Halle an der Saale | | chaplain
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| Edith Stein | d. 1942 Auschwitz | | theologian, philosopher, writer
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| Karl Ernst Krafft | died 1945 during transport to Buchenwald | | astrologer, occultist
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| Edith Stein | 1891-1942 | German | nun, Catholic saint (born Jewish)
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| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | 1906-1945 | German | Lutheran pastor, theologian
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| Rupert Mayer | 1876-1945 | German | Jesuit priest
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| Sándor Büchler | 1869-1944 | Hungarian | rabbi, historian
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| Avraham Yitzchak Bloch | 1891-1941 | Lithuanian | Chief Rabbi, rosh yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva
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| Elchonon Wasserman | 1875-1941 | Lithuanian | rabbi, rosh yeshiva
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| Azriel Rabinowitz | 1905-1941 | Lithuanian | rabbi, rosh yeshiva at the Telz Yeshiva
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| Shimon Shkop | 1860-1940 | Lithuanian | rosh yeshiva, Talmudic sholar
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| Maximilian Kolbe | 1894-1941 | Polish | friar, Catholic saint
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| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements
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| Edgar André | died 1936 executed, Hamburg | | Communist
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| Friedrich Aue | died 1944 executed, Brandenburg | | Communist
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| Judith Auer | died 1944 executed, Berlin | | resistance fighter
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| Bernhard Bästlein | died 1944 executed, Brandenburg | | Communist
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| Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff | died 1945 murdered in custody, Berlin | | diplomat
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| Cato Bontjes van Beek | died 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | resistance fighter
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| Rudolf Breitscheid | died 1944 Buchenwald | | Social democrat
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| Hans Coppi | died 1942 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | resistance fighter
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| Hilde Coppi | died 1943 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | resistance fighter
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| Otto Eggerstedt | died 1933 Esterwegen | | Social democrat
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| Fritz Elsas | died 1945 Sachsenhausen | | politician
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| Georg Elser | died 1945 executed, Dachau | | manual labourer, Rotfront-Kämpfer
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| Carl Friedrich Goerdeler | died 1945 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | Mayor of Leipzig, Putschist
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| Herschel Grynszpan | died Ort and Datum unbekannt, wahrscheinlich im Gestapo-Gefängnis Berlin-Moabit | | resistance fighter
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| Max Habermann | died 1944 im Gefängnis von Gifhorn | | trade unionist
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| Albrecht Haushofer | died 1945 executed, Berlin-Moabit | | diplomat, writer
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| Rudolf Henning | died 1944 executed, Sachsenhausen | |
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| Rudolf Hilferding | died 1941 in Gestapo-Haft, Paris | | Social democrat
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| Otto Hirsch | died 1941 Mauthausen concentration camp | | Representation of German Jews
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| Camill Hoffmann | died 1944 Auschwitz | | diplomat, writer
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| Franz Jacob | died 1944 executed, Brandenburg | | Communist
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| Walter Krämer | died 1941 "shot while trying to escape", KZ Goslar | | Communist
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| Marian Kudera | died 1944 executed, Dachau | | resistance fighter
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| Albert Kuntz | died 1945 Nordhausen an den Folgen der Folter | | Communist
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| Ludwig Landmann | died 5 March 1945, Versteck verhungert | | DDP Politician, Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
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| Julius Leber | died 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | Socialist
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| Wilhelm Leuschner | died 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | Politician
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| Marinus van der Lubbe | died 1934, Leipzig | | Communist
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| August Lütgens | died 1933 executed, Amtsgericht Altona | | Communist
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| Rosa Manus | died 1943 Ravensbrück | | Women's rights advocate
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| Walter Möller | died 1933 executed, Amtsgericht Altona | | Communist
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| Ottilie Pohl | died 1942 Theresienstadt | | resistance fighter
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| Fritz Pröll | died 1944 suicide due to threatened torture, Nordhausen | | resistance fighter
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| Anton Saefkow | died 1944 executed, Zuchthaus Brandenburg | | Communist, resistance fighter
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| Ernst Schneller | died 1944 executed, Sachsenhausen | | KPD Politician
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| Werner Scholem | died 1940 Buchenwald | | Communist
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| Hans Scholl | died 1943 executed, München-Stadelheim | | resistance fighter, medical student
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| Sophie Scholl | died 1943 executed, München-Stadelheim | | resistance fighter, student
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| Bruno Tesch | died 1933 executed, Amtsgericht Altona | | Communist
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| Ernst Thälmann | died 1944 executed, Buchenwald | | KPD Politician
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| Mathias Thesen | died 1944 executed, Sachsenhausen | |
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| Adam von Trott zu Solz | died 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | diplomat
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| Karl Wolff | died 1933 executed, Amtsgericht Altona | | Communist
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| Richard Schmitz | died 1938 | Austrian | mayor of Vienna
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| Georges Mandel | 1885-1944 | French | politician, resistance leader
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| Victor Basch | 1877-1945 | French | esthetician, politician
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| Jenő Deutsch (Eugen Deutsch)
| 1879-1944 | Hungarian | social democratic politician [1]
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| Kazimierz Bartel | 1882-1941 | Polish | Prime Minister of Poland 1926-1930
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| Stefan Rowecki | 1895-1944 | Polish | general, journalist, leader of the Armia Krajowa
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| Stefan Starzyński | 1893-1943 | Polish | politician, economist, writer, statesman
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| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements
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| Erich Fellgiebel | d. 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | officer and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
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| Ludwig Beck | d. 1944 shot, Berlin | German | General, Putschist
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| Werner von Haeften | d. 1944 shot, Berlin | | jurist, adjutant of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
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| Erich Hoepner | d. executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | demoted Colonel General, member of Military opposition about Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
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| Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim | d. 1944 shot, Berlin | | General, Putschist
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| Friedrich Olbricht | d. 1944 shot, Berlin | | General, Putschist
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| Hans Oster | d. 1945 executed, Flossenbürg | | Chief of staff
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| Harro Schulze-Boysen | d. 1942 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | officer, publicist
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| Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | d. 1944 shot, Berlin | | Chief of staff of General Army Office, Putschist
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| Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel | d. 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | military commander in occupied France
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| Henning von Tresckow | d. 1944 suicide, near Ostrov, Russia | | Major General, Putschist
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| Erwin von Witzleben | d. 1944 executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | | retired Field Marshal
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| Wilhelm Canaris | d. 1945 executed, Flossenbürg | German | military information service
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