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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aliyah Bet | Aliyah Bet | null | null | null | code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, most of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany, and later Holocaust survivors, to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, in violation of the restrictions laid out in the British White Paper of 1939, which dramatically increased between 1939 and 1948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah_Bet |
| Tuvia Bielski | Tuvia Bielski | 1906 | 1987 | Belarusian | Jewish militant who was leader of the Bielski group, a group of Jewish partisans who set up refugee camps for Jews fleeing the Holocaust during World War II. Their camp was situated in the Naliboki forest, which was part of Poland between World War I and World War II, and which is now in western Belarus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvia_Bielski |
| Hanns Alexander | Hanns Alexander | 1917 | 2006 | German | Jewish refugee who tracked down and arrested the Kommandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Alexander |
| Elsa Herrmann | Elsa Herrmann Pick | 1893 | 1957 | German | Jewish feminist writer and refugee advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Herrmann |
| Fritz Pfeffer | Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer | 1889 | 1944 | German | dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Pfeffer |
| Maria Altmann | Maria Altmann | 1916 | 2011 | Austrian | Jewish refugee from Austria, who fled her home country after it was annexed to the Third Reich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Altmann |
| Hans Rosenberg | Hans Rosenberg | null | null | German | refugee historian whose works influenced a whole generation of post-war German scholars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosenberg |
| Sheffi Paz | Sheffi Paz | 1952 | n/a | Israeli | activist against non-Jewish refugees and asylum seekers, living in south Tel Aviv | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffi_Paz |
| Eliana Rubashkyn | Eliana Rubashkyn | 1988 | n/a | Colombian | formerly stateless New Zealander, known internationally for being the first intersex person assigned male at birth legally recognised as a woman with a U.N. mechanism under the international refugee statute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliana_Rubashkyn |
| Max Desfor | Max Desfor | 1913 | 2018 | American | photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his Korean War photograph, Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea, depicting Pyongyang residents and refugees crawling over a destroyed bridge across the Taedong River to escape the advancing Chinese Communist troops | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Desfor |
| Susanne Miller | Susanne Miller | 1915 | 2008 | Bulgarian | left wing activist who for reasons of race and politics spent her early adulthood as a refugee in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_Miller |
| Arthur Löwenstamm | Arthur Löwenstamm | 1882 | 1965 | null | Jewish theologian, writer and rabbi in Berlin and in London, where he came in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Löwenstamm |
| Werner van der Zyl | Werner van der Zyl | 1902 | 1984 | null | rabbi in Berlin and in London, where he came in 1939 as a refugee rabbi from Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_van_der_Zyl |
| Cave of Horror | Cave of Horror | null | null | null | nickname given to what archaeologists have catalogued as Nahal Hever Cave 8 (8Hev) of the Judaean Desert, Israel, where the remains of Jewish refugees from the Bar Kokhba revolt (c | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Horror |
| John Burgh (civil servant) | Sir John Charles Burgh, KCMG | 1925 | 2013 | Austrian | refugee who became a senior member of the British Civil Service as Director-General of the British Council (1980–1987) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burgh_(civil_servant) |
| Arnold Weiss | Arnold Hans Weiss | 1924 | 2010 | German | refugee from Nazi Germany who emigrated to the United States where he became an intelligence officer working for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and played a key role in the discovery of the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler, dictated during the last days of the war in Europe and laying out the succession of leadership following his impending suicide as the Red Army overtook Berlin and encircled the Führerbunker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Weiss |
| Josef Rosensaft | Josef Rosensaft | 1911 | 1975 | null | Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) through the establishment of a Central Committee of Liberated Jews that first served the interests of the refugees in Bergen-Belsen DP camp and then DP camps throughout the entire British sector | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Rosensaft |
| David Stoliar | David Stoliar | 1922 | 2014 | null | sole survivor of the Struma disaster, in which the torpedoed and sank the Holocaust refugee ship in the Black Sea in the early morning of 24 February 1942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stoliar |
| Bracha Fuld | Bracha Fuld | 1926 | 1946 | null | Jewish resistance fighter who died in an attempt to help Jewish Holocaust refugees enter Palestine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracha_Fuld |
| Marie Schmolka | Marie Schmolka | 1893 | 1940 | Czechoslovak | Jewish activist and social worker who helped political refugees and Jewish adults and children escape the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the lead-up to World War II. She was a member of WIZO and WILPF. She had previously helped refugees from Germany who fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazi rise to power | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Schmolka |
| Frieda Salvendy | Frieda Salvendy | 1887 | 1965 | Austrian | Jewish painter, engraver, feminist and Holocaust refugee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Salvendy |
| Hugh Buhrich | Hugh Buhrich | 1911 | 2004 | German | architect who arrived in Australia as a refugee from Nazi Germany before World War II. Buhrich's practice, of 40 years, covered commercial and domestic projects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Buhrich |
| Leonie Zuntz | Leonie Zuntz | 1908 | 1942 | German | Hittitologist who settled in Britain in 1934 as refugee scholar at Somerville College, Oxford | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonie_Zuntz |
| Marianne Laqueur | Marianne Laqueur | 1918 | 2006 | German | Jewish refugee to Turkey, a computer scientist and local politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Laqueur |
| Rolf Schild | Rolf Schild OBE | 1924 | 2003 | null | German-born, British-based businessman, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who formed the company Huntleigh Technology, based in Luton, which manufactured and designed medical equipment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Schild |
| Harry Jacobi | Rabbi Harry Martin Jacobi | 1925 | 2019 | null | rabbi in the United Kingdom, where he came in 1939, via The Netherlands, as a refugee from Nazi Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Jacobi |
| Asarsi Getu | Asarsi Getu | 1958 | n/a | Israeli | nurse of Beta Israel origin, who in the mid- 80s served as a nurse for the Red Cross refugee camps in Sudan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asarsi_Getu |
| Yechiel Granatstein | Yechiel Granatstein | 1913 | 2008 | Polish | Jewish author and writer in Yiddish and Hebrew, as well as a partisan fighter in World War II and a Jewish refugee activist following the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechiel_Granatstein |
| Morris C. Troper | Morris Carlton Troper | 1892 | 1962 | American | Jewish accountant from New York credited for saving hundreds of Jewish refugees during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_C._Troper |
| Fritz Hirschfeld | Fritz Hirschfeld | 1886 | 1944 | German | jurist of Jewish descent, a judge in Potsdam, a refugee in the Netherlands, interned in the Westerbork transit camp and in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hirschfeld |