Event class: camp, war, arrested, prisoner, prison, captured, german, died, released, sent
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J?zef Czapski | Following the Polish Defensive War, he was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets and was among the very few officers to survive the Katyn massacre of 1940. |
Eduard Fuchs | Lenin's government put him in charge of prisoner exchange with Germany after the war ; he was among the leaders of the German Comintern in Berlin in 1919. |
William S. Rukeyser | In 1968, he signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Danylo Shumuk | On 15 May 1941 the Soviet authorities force Danylo Shumuk to join a' work camp' as a brother of an enemy of the people. |
Ludvik Buland | After some time in Grini concentration camp from September to October 1941, he was sent via Akershus Fortress to the Nacht und Nebel camp Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel where he arrived on 16 October. |
Richard O'Connor | O'Connor was captured by a German reconnaissance patrol during the night of 7 April 1941, and spent over two years in an Italian prisoner of war camp. |
Germaine Tillion | On 21 October 1943 she was sent to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück, near Berlin with her mother, Émilie Tillion, also a resistante. |
Erwin Axer | He took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to a quarry in Germany as a slave worker. |
Maria Mandl | She oversaw daily roll calls, assignments for Aufseherinnen and punishments such as beatings and flogging s. On October 7, 1942, Mandl was assigned to the Auschwitz II Birkenau camp in Poland where she succeeded Johanna Langefeld as SS-Lagerführerin, a female commandant under (male) SS-Kommandant Rudolf Höß. |
W?adys?aw Szpilman | He aided several other would-be victims in Warsaw ; Hosenfeld nonetheless died (in 1952) after seven years in Soviet captivity, despite the efforts of Szpilman to help him. |
Chanan Singh Dhillon | Lt. Col Dhillon was an NCO when he was taken a POW in 1943 and remained confided to POW Camp XII in Limburg near Frankfurt in Germany. |
Walter Schreiber | In 1945, he was taken prisoner of war by the Red Army in Berlin and taken to the Soviet Union. |
Julius Evola | After the Italian surrender to the Allied forces on September 8, 1943, Evola moved to Germany, where he spent the remainder of World War II, also working as a researcher on Freemasonry for the SS Ahnenerbe in Vienna. |
Paul Giesler | On 8 May 1945, Nazi capitulation day, Giesler and his wife committed suicide, fearing capture by American troops as they fled Berchtesgaden. |
Arno von Lenski | Lenski was first imprisoned at Krasnogorsk and transferred to Suzdal in April 1943. |
James Baldwin | In 1968, Baldwin signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Heinrich Trettner | He was later transferred to the British Army POW camp in UK, and remained incarcerated until 12 April 1948. |
Richard Marek | In 1968, he signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Hildegard Neumann | Hildegard Neumann (born 4 May 1919) was a chief overseer at several Nazi concentration, transition and detention camps during the last year of World War II. |
Kliment Voroshilov | Voroshilov initially argued that thousands of Polish army officers captured in September 1939 should be released but later signed the order for their execution Katyn massacre. |
Moisis Michail Bourlas | In February 1943, right after the Nazi occupation forces had imposed their'' racial measures'' that eventually led to the Holocaust, Bourlas joined the rebel forces of ELAS (Greek National Liberation Army) under the alias'' Byron'', and fought in the 30th Regiment on the mountain of Paiko near Kilkis. |
Franz Stangl | In spite of being registered under his real name at the Austrian consulate in São Paulo, it took another six years before he was tracked down by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and was arrested by Brazilian federal police on 28 February 1967. |
Ivan Me?trovi? | Unfortunately not all of his family managed to escape -- his first wife Ruža died in 1942 and many from her Jew ish family were killed in the Holocaust. |
Hans Bunge | He served until 1943 when he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. |
Petrus Wijtse Winkel | In 1942 Winkel was deported to a civilian internment camp in the jungle of Sumatra. |
Yitzhak Shamir | A few months after Stern was killed by the British in 1942, Shamir and Eliahu Giladi hid under a stack of mattresses in a warehouse of the detention camp at Mazra'a and at night they escaped through the barbed wire fences of the camp. |
Jan Hilgers | Hilgers died in a Japanese prison camp at Ngawi, East-Java on July 21, 1945, just before Japan's surrender to the Allies. |
Georges Politzer | His wife was transported to Auschwitz, where she died in March 1943. |
Eduard Wirths | Importantly, Wirths also asserted medical control of selections at the Auschwitz - Birkenau camp, which, prior to spring 1943, had been conducted by the camp commander and his subordinates. |
Gustav-Adolf von Zangen | Zangen was taken prisoner of war in April 1945 in the Ruhr Pocket. |
Barbara Deming | In 1968, Deming signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Gertrud Kolmar | Gertrud Kolmar was arrested in the course of a factory raid on the 27th of February 1943, and transported on 2 March to the Auschwitz concentration camp. |
Hans Aumeier | On August 18, 1943, Aumeier was found guilty of corrupt practices within the camp and as a result was transferred from Auschwitz on the personal orders of Commandant Rudolf Höß. |
Avetis Aharonian | Thus, in 1909, he was captured by the Tsar's government and imprisoned in Metekhi's prison, where he fell ill. |
Paul Goma | In October 1943, Eufimie Goma was found by his family, as a prisoner of war, in'' Camp No. 1 for Soviet Prisoners'', in Slobozia, Ialomiţa County, Romania. |
Yane Sandanski | Eventually, Sandanski was killed near the Rozhen Monastery on April 22, 1915, while travelling from Melnik to Nevrokop, by local IMARO activists. |
Gertrud Heise | From there she guarded a prisoner evacuation train in October 1944 to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany. |
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | In 1943 she was arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, but survived the war. |
Simone Weil | In 1915, when she was only six years old, she refused sugar in solidarity with the troops entrenched along the Western Front. |
Warren Hinckle | In 1968, he signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Sol Stern | In 1968, Stern signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Kosta Hakman | A drastic cut was made by a time spent imprisoned in a German concentration camp in Dortmund that he was taken to in 1941 as a prisoner of war. |
Mikhail Tukhachevsky | After being taken prisoner by the Imperial German Army in February 1915, Tukhachevsky escaped four times from POW camps and was finally held as an incorrigible escapee in Ingolstadt fortress. |
Peter Churchill | On 24 April 1945, Churchill was taken from Dachau over the Brenner Pass to Villabassa (Niederdorf in the Tyrol), together with many other prominent concentration camp inmates from different countries, where the SS left the prisoners behind as American forces were approaching. |
Ernst Goldenbaum | In 1944 he was arrested and he spent the last year of the war in concentration camp Neuengamme. |
Anton de Kom | De Kom died on 24 April 1945 of tuberculosis in Camp Sandbostel near Bremervörde (between Bremen and Hamburg), which was a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. |
Shig Murao | In 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Murao and his family were interned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho. |
Charles Coward | Finally, in December 1943, he was transferred to Auschwitz III (Monowitz) labour camp (Arbeitslager) only five miles from the better-known extermination camp of Auschwitz II (Birkenau). |
Anna Timiryova | In spring 1935, she was arrested again for `` concealment of the past'', and sent to a labor camp. |
Irmgard Huber | In 1946, after reconstruction of German courts under the occupation, Huber was among twenty-five members of the Hadamar staff, including Dr. Wahlmann, tried for murders of thousands of German citizens at Hadamar. |
Jean Goss | As a war prisoner in German camps until 1945, he was sentenced to death but saved by a German officer who moved by his testimony. |
John Demjanjuk | Demjanjuk testified during the trial that he was imprisoned in a camp in Chełm until 1944, when he was transferred to another camp in Austria, where he remained until he joined an anti-Soviet Ukrainian army group. |
Jan Weiss | Here, in 1916 by he was captured at Tarnopol and spent his time in two prisoner camps in the Siberia, where he contracted Typhoid fever. |
Pinhas Rutenberg | In March 1918, when German troops approached Petrograd, the Bolsheviks released Rutenberg, among many other prisoners. |
Oscar Kreuzer | While Kreuzer stayed at a camp near Leeds, officer Froitzheim was kept at Donnington Hall until the end of the war in 1918. |
Wac?aw Piekarski | He capitulated with his forces on 26 September 1939 and spent the rest of the war in German captivity in Oflag VIII-E Johannisbrunn and Oflag VII-A Murnau. |
Sergei Solovyov (Catholic priest) | In the night from 15 to 16 February 1931, Sergei Solovyov was arrested along with a group of Greek-Catholics, mostly Jewish women converted to Catholicism, many of them later died in custody, the first of the victims was Victoria Burvasser. |
Zbigniew Czajkowski | He was then sent to the Soviet labor camp in Vorkuta, beyond the polar circle where he survived extremely harsh conditions until, in September, 1941, the new head of the labor camp decided to free him. |
Norbert Wollheim | Wollheim was brought to Auschwitz camp III, Monowitz, where he had to work as slave labour er for, helping build the new Buna-factory IV until the evacuation of Auschwitz on January 18, 1945. |
Victor Perlo | In 1968, he signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Mary Antin | During the war, Amadeus was interned by the Japanese and died shortly after his release in 1946. |
Josef Mengele | In May 1943, Mengele replaced another doctor who had fallen ill at the Nazi extermination camp Birkenau. |
Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer | Later, he was transferred to the Manchurian camp at Hsien (now Liaoyuan), where he was held along with other prominent prisoners, including General Jonathan M. Wainwright, until the camp was liberated on 16 August 1945. |
Apostolos Santas | On the night of 30 May 1941, he and Manolis Glezos climbed on the Acropolis of Athens and tore down the Nazi flag, which had been there since 27 April, when the Nazi forces had entered and occupied Athens, leaving the flagpole empty. |
Simon Wiesenthal | He was arrested there, hiding under the floorboards, by two Polish detectives on 13 June 1944 and taken back to the remains of the camp at Janowska. |
Irma Grese | Having completed her training in March 1943, Grese was transferred as a female guard to Auschwitz, and by the end of that year was Senior Supervisor, the second highest ranking woman at the camp, in charge of around 30,000 Jewish female prisoners. |
Hans Voss | It was in Oslo, Norway that he was captured by the British in May 1945 and became a prisoner of war. |
William Stephenson | In any event he was subsequently captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war until he managed to escape in October 1918. |
James Crumley | In 1968, he signed the'' Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Pati Kremer | When the Ghetto was razed by the Germans in September 1943, Pati Kremer as among the many victims who were rounded up, transported to the Sobibor extermination camp and killed. |
Sonya Olschanezky | However, Olschanezky remained free until being captured in January 1944 and after being interrogated by the Gestapo, she was imprisoned at Fresnes. |
George Feyer (pianist) | He was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the last year of the war, from where he was rescued in 1945 by the Allies. |
Leon Schwartzmann | During World War II, at the end of his life was arrested and transported to Auschwitz, where he died on 3 September 1942. |
P?re Jacques | Father Jacques was imprisoned in several Nazi concentration camps before being liberated by American troops at Mauthausen in early May 1945. |
Victor Deguise | He was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp until the end of the war in 1918. |
Alan Jerrard | He remained a prisoner until the end of 1918, when he managed to escape and reach Allied lines. |
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | He was taken prisoner of war by British forces in May 1945. |
Luise Danz | On January 24, 1943, at the age of 25, Danz was conscripted as an SS - Aufseherin within the Nazi concentration camp system. |
L?once Vieljeux | Interned at Lafond before being transferred to Poitiers then Fresnes, he was finally sent to the camp at Schirmeck near Strasburg, where he remained from 1 May to 1 September 1944. |
George Nakashima | Like others of Japanese ancestry, he was interned during the Second World War and sent to Camp Minidoka in Hunt, Idaho, in March 1942. |
Scott Nearing | In 1968, Nearing signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Wilhelm Trabandt | Trabandt survived the war and became a captive in the Soviet Union for the next nine years and released in 1954. |
Peter Harding (Royal School of Mines) | In late 1944 he and his fellow prisoners were subjected to the forced march of Allied POWs from Eastern Germany in the face of advancing Soviet troops, during which he was forced to leave behind many personal objects, including his prison diary. |
Michael Dougherty (soldier) | Taken as a prisoner of war on that day, he remained in various Confederate prisons until 12 April 1865. |
Heinz Guderian | He remained as a prisoner of war in U. S. custody until his release on 17 June 1948. |
Boris Babochkin | In 1937, when Dikiy was arrested and imprisoned in the Gulag camps, Babochkin was hurt and suffered an emotional crisis. |
Nicolas Lebel | Unfortunately, in September 1870, he was captured after the Sedan encirclement and suffered captivity in Germany. |
Benjamin Fondane | Fondane was captured by the Germans in June 1940 (shortly before the fall of France), and was taken into a German camp as a prisoner of war. |
W?adys?aw Koba | He was arrested on September 26, 1947 and put in the infamous prison, located in the Rzeszów Castle. |
Alina Szapocznikow | When the ghettos were liquidated in May 1942, Szapocznikow along with her mother, a paediatrician, was sent to concentration camps including Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Terezín. |
Claire Beck Loos | Claire Beck Loos and her mother Olga Feigl Beck moved to Prague at the beginning of World War II, and were later deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1941. |
Ilse St?be | Her mother was also arrested and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she died in 1943. |
Aloysius Stepinac | The head rabbi of the Jewish Municipality of Zagreb Miroslav Šalom Freiberger was taken to Auschwitz by the SS in 1943 where he died shortly after his arrival. |
Georg Ratzinger | At the end of World War II, he was a prisoner of war of the U. S. Army in the vicinity of Naples, but was released, and arrived at home in July 1945. |
Dwight Macdonald | In 1968, he signed the pledge of the'' Writers and Editors War Tax Protest'', vowing to refuse to pay taxes in protest against the Vietnam War. |
Mariya Bayda | She was released from captivity by the American forces on May 8, 1945. |
Jolie Gabor | Her brother, Sebastian, also a jeweler, spent part of the war in labor camps, beginning in 1942, until he and their mother, Franceska, were killed in a bombing raid during World War II. |
Paul Maitla | Maitla was then interned by the Germans until November 1941, when he was released and joined the 37th Police Battalion, and tasked with guarding German airfields. |
Rutka Laskier | Laskier was believed to have died in a gas chamber, along with her mother and brother, upon her arrival with her family in August 1943 at the Auschwitz concentration camp, at the age of 14. |
Maria Shkapskaya | Her younger son, taken prisoner during the war, was sent to the Gulag in 1950. |