List of victims of Nazism

This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements. Many on the lists below were of Jewish origin, although Catholics, Roma and others were murdered as well. This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, lost their lives as a result of Nazism. This list includes those whose deaths were part of the Holocaust as well as individuals who died in other ways at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. People who died in concentration camps are listed alongside those who were murdered by the Nazi Party or those who chose suicide for political motives or to avoid being murdered.

This list is sorted by occupation and by nationality.

Performance art

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Hana Brady	1931–1944	Czech	portrayed in Hana's Suitcase: A True Story	gas chamber at Auschwitz
René Blum	1878–1942	French	founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra à Monte Carlo
Arthur Bergen	1875-1943	Actor and Director	Austrian	Auschwitz concentration camp
Eugen Burg	1871–1944	German	film actor	unknown concentration camp
Ernst Arndt	1861-1942/3	German	actor	gas chamber at Treblinka
Maria Bard	1900–1944	German	actress	suicide in Berlin for "political reasons"
Lea Deutsch	1927–1943	Croatian	child actress	heart failure en route to Auschwitz
Max Ehrlich	1892–1944	German	actor, screenwriter, director, best-selling author	forced to tell jokes at gunpoint, then gassed Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Maria Forescu	1875–1943	Austro-Hungarian	Opera singer and actress	Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Lisl Frank	1911–1944	Czech	performer, dancer, cabaret singer	forced death march from Auschwitz to Christianstadt
Kurt Gerron	1897–1944	German	performer, actor, film director	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Dora Gerson	1899–1943	German	actress, cabaret singer	gas chamber at Auschwitz
John Gottowt	1881–1942	Austro-Hungarian	actor	murdered by SS in Wieliczka
Joachim Gottschalk	1904–1941	German	actor	suicide in Berlin to avoid arrest
Leslie Howard	1893–1943	British	actor	airplane shot down by Luftwaffe
Georg John	1879–1941	German	actor	Łódź Ghetto
Paul Morgan	1886-1938	Austrian	actor, cabaret performer	died in Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Bernard Natan	1886–1942	Franco-Romanian	film director, actor and former head of Pathé Film Studios
Joseph Schmidt	1904–1942	Ukrainian	singer, actor	heart attack in a Swiss refugee camp in Gyrenbad
Fritz Spira	1881–1943	Austrian	film and stage actor	Ruma Concentration Camp
Mathilde Sussin	1876-1943	Austrian	actress	Theresienstadt concentration camp
Miklós Vig	1898–1944	Hungarian	singer, actor, comedian, theater secretary	shot into the Danube River in Budapest by members of the Arrow Cross
Karel Hašler	1879–1941	Czech	songwriter, actor, lyricist, film and theatre director, composer, writer, dramatist, screenwriter and cabaretier	at Mauthausen, put into a cold shower until death
Otto Wallburg	1899-1944	German	actor and cabaret performer	Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Max Zilzer	1868-1943	Hungarian-German	actor	died under interrogation by the Gestapo

Literature and publishing

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Karel Destovnik	1922–1944	Slovenian	poet	killed in battle as resistance fighter
Else Feldmann	1884–1942	Austrian	writer and journalist	gas chamber at Sobibór
Anne Frank	1929–1945	German/Netherlands/Dutch	author of a published diary	typhus at Bergen-Belsen
Egon Friedell	1878–1938	Austrian	writer and philosopher	suicide to avoid deportation
Peter Hammerschlag	1902–1942, Auschwitz	Austrian	writer and graphic artist
Lidia Zamenhof	1904–1942	Polish	work for Esperanto movement, as well as translations of Bahá'í writings	gas chamber at Treblinka
Jura Soyfer	1912–1939	Austrian	journalist, writer	typhus at Buchenwald
Yitzhak Katzenelson	1886–1944	Belarusian	teacher, writer	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Petr Ginz	1928–1944, aged 16	Czech	editor of Vedem	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Julius Fučík	1903–1943	Czech	resistance leader	hanged at Plötzensee Prison
Milena Jesenská	1896–1944, Ravensbrück	Czech	journalist	kidney failure
Paul Kornfeld	1889–1942	Czech	writer
Karel Poláček	1892–1944	Czech	writer	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Vladislav Vančura	1891–1942, Prague	Czech	writer, doctor	execution
Etty Hillesum	1914–1943, Auschwitz	Dutch	writer, diary author
Helga Deen	1925–1943	Dutch	author of a published diary	gas chamber at Sobibór
Hélène Berr	1921–1945	French	author of a published diary	died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Jacques Decour	1910–1942	French	writer, resistance leader	executed by firing squad
Robert Desnos	1900–1945	French	poet, resistance fighter	typhoid few weeks after the liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp
Benjamin Fondane	1898–1944	French	poet, literary critic	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Pierre-André Gastalla	1921–1944	French	author of a published diary, resistance fighter	killed in action
Guy de Larigaudie	1908–1940	French	writer	killed in action during the Fall of France
Régis Messac	1893–1945	French	writer	died in Groß-Rosen concentration camp or Dora concentration camp
Paul Nizan	1905–1940	French	writer, journalist	killed in action during the Fall of France
Jean Prévost	1900–1944	French	writer, resistance leader	killed in action during the battle of the Massif du Vercors in July 1944
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	1900–1944	French	writer, journalist, aviator	killed in action on a reconnaissance flight, July 1944
Walter Benjamin	1892–1940	German	literary critic and philosopher	suicide at Portbou to avoid deportation
Felix Fechenbach	1894–1933	German	journalist and activist	executed during the deportation to Dachau
Walter Hasenclever	1890–1940	German	expressionist writer	suicide to avoid deportation
Jakob van Hoddis	1887–1942	German	writer	gas chamber at Sobibór
Jochen Klepper	1903–1942	German	writer	suicide in Berlin
Erich Knauf	1895–1944	German	journalist, poet	beheaded at Brandenburg-Görden Prison
Clementine Krämer	1873–1942	German	author, poet, social worker	died at Theresienstadt
Adam Kuckhoff	1887–1943	German	writer, dramatist, resistance fighter
Erich Mühsam	1878–1934	German	writer, anarchist	executed at Plötzensee Prison
Willi Münzenberg	1889–1940	German	publisher, politician	murdered at Oranienburg concentration camp
Friedrich Münzer	1868–1942	German	philologist	enteritis at Theresienstadt
Carl von Ossietzky	1889–1938	German	journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner	tuberculosis
Erich Salomon	1886–1944	German	photojournalist
Libertas Schulze-Boysen	1913–1942	German	film critic, resistance fighter	executed at Plötzensee Prison
Miklós Radnóti	1909–1944	Hungarian	poet	shot into a mass grave near the village of Abda
Antal Szerb	1901–1945	Hungarian	writer, literary scholar	beaten to death in a concentration camp in Balf
Mordechai Gebirtig	1877–1942	Polish	Yiddish poet, musician and composer	shot in Krakow Ghetto
Bruno Schulz	1892–1942	Polish	writer	shot in Drohobycz Ghetto
Wilhelm Eduard Schmid	d. 1934	German	music critic	accidental victim of the Night of the Long Knives in a case of mistaken identity
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger	1924–1942	Romanian	writer	typhus at Mikhailovska labor camp in rural Ukraine
David Vogel	1891–1944	Russian	Hebrew writer	tuberculosis at a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp
Anton de Kom	1898–1945, Neuengamme	Surinamese	author, human rights activist
Irène Némirovsky	1903–1942	Ukrainian-French	writer	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Else Ury	1877–1943	German	writer	gas chamber at Auschwitz

Visual arts and design

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis	1896–1944	Austrian	artist	gas chamber in Auschwitz
Josef Čapek	1887–1945	Czech	painter, draughtsman, illustrator, writer
Samuel J. de Mesquita	1868–1944	Dutch	painter and designer	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Abraham Icek Tuschinski	1886–1942, Auschwitz	Dutch	designer of the Tuschinski Theater	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Max Jacob	1876–1944	French	artist	pneumonia at Drancy
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	1880–1938 Davos	German	painter	suicide due to persecution
Julius Klinger	1876–1942	Austrian	artist/designer
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler	1899–1940	German	painter	Aktion T4 victim at Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre
Felix Nussbaum	1904–1944	Austrian	painter	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Charlotte Salomon	1917–1943	German	painter	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Jan Rubczak	1884–1942	Polish	painter, graphic artist	gas chamber at Auschwitz

Music

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Pavel Haas	1899–1944	Czech	composer	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Heinz Alt	1922–1945	German	composer	Dachau
Ernst Bachrich	1892–1942	Austrian	composer	Majdanek/Lublin concentration camp
Žiga Hirschler	1894–1941	Croatian	composer	Jasenovac concentration camp
Rudolf Karel	1880–1945	Czech	composer	dysentery at Theresienstadt
Gideon Klein	1919–1945	Czech	composer	killed during liquidation of Fürstengrube, a sub-camp of Auschwitz
Hans Krása	1899–1944,	Czech (Bohemian)	composer	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Leon Jessel	1871–1942, Berlin	German	composer	torture by Gestapo
Erwin Schulhoff	1894–1942	Czech	composer, jazz pianist	tuberculosis at Wülzburg concentration camp
Viktor Ullmann	1898–1944	Czech	composer, pianist	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Karlrobert Kreiten	1916–1943	German	pianist	hanged at Plötzensee Prison
Alma Rosé	1906–1944	Austrian	violinist, conductor	possibly poisoning, at Auschwitz
Józef Koffler	1896–1944, Krosno	Polish	composer, teacher, columnist	probably shot by Einsatzgruppen
Leo Smit	1900–1943	Dutch	composer	gas chamber at Sobibór
Marcel Tyberg	1893–1944	Austrian	composer, pianist, conductor
Gershon Sirota	1874–1943	Polish	cantor, tenor	killed in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Ilse Weber	1903–1944	Czech	composer, playwright	gas chamber at Auschwitz
Jehan Alain	1911–1940	French	organ player	killed in action during the Fall of France
Maurice Jaubert	1900–1940	French	composer	killed in action during the Fall of France

Humanities

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Mildred Harnack	1902–1943	American	literary historian, translator, resistance fighter	beheaded at Plötzensee Prison
Elise Richter	1865–1943	Austrian	Romance philology professor
Simon Dubnow	1860–1941	Belarusian	historian, writer, activist	killed at the Riga ghetto during the Rumbula massacre
Norbert Jokl	1877–1942, Rossau	Czech	Albanologist
Marc Bloch	1886–1944	French	historian, resistance leader	tortured and shot by Gestapo at Saint-Didier-de-Formans
Valentin Feldman	1909–1942	French	philosopher, resistance leader	executed by firing squad
Jean Gosset	1912–1944	French	journalist, resistance fighter	died in Neuengamme concentration camp
Georges Politzer	1902–1942	French	philosopher, resistance leader	executed by firing squad
Boris Vildé	1908–1942	French	ethnogrppher, resistance fighter	executed by firing squad
Avgust Pirjevec	1887–1944	Slovenian	literary historian
Walter Benjamin	1892–1940	German	philosopher	suicide at Portbou to avoid deportation
Friedrich Münzer	1868–1942, Theresienstadt	German	classical scholar

Mathematics

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Georg Alexander Pick[1]	1859–1942	Austrian	Pick's theorem	Theresienstadt
Jean Cavaillès	1903–1944	French	philosopher of science, resistance leader	executed by firing squad
Albert Lautman	1908–1944	French	mathematical philosopher, resistance leader	executed by firing squad
Otto Blumenthal[2]	1876–1944	German	Work in number theory, editor of Mathematische Annalen	Theresienstadt
Felix Hausdorff[3]	1868–1942	German	One of the founders of modern topology and contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.	suicide, Bonn
Friedrich Hartogs	1874–1943	German	Foundational work in several complex variables	suicide, Großhesselohe
Robert Remak	1888–1942	German	Work in group theory, number theory, mathematical economics	Auschwitz
Adolf Lindenbaum	1904–1941	Polish	Work in set theory	Ghetto Vilnius
Antoni Łomnicki	1881–1941	Polish	Polish mathematician	Massacre of Lwów
Stanisław Ruziewicz	1889–1941	Polish	Ruziewicz problem	Massacre of Lwów
Stanisław Saks	1897–1942	Polish	Work in measure theory	murdered in prison by the Gestapo, Warsaw
Juliusz Schauder	1899–1943	Polish	Schauder fixed point theorem, Schauder basis	executed by the Gestapo, Lviv
Włodzimierz Stożek	1883–1941	Polish	Polish mathematician	Massacre of Lwów
Alfred Tauber	1866–1942	Slovak	Tauberian theorems	Theresienstadt

Natural sciences

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Ernst Cohen	1869–1944	Dutch	chemist, work on the allotropy of metals	gas chamber at Auschwitz

Medicine and psychology

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński	1874–1941	Polish	paediatrician, poet, translator	Massacre of Lwów
Antoni Cieszyński	1882–1941	Polish	physician, dentist, surgeon
Władysław Dobrzaniecki	1897–1941	Polish	physician, surgeon
Gisela Januszewska	1867–1943	Austrian	physician	Theresienstadt
Janusz Korczak	1878–1942	Polish	pediatrician, educator, child welfare	Treblinka
Adolf Reichwein	1898–1944	German	doctor, educator, politician	executed, Berlin-Plötzensee
Sabina Spielrein	1885–1942	Russian	physician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst	Massacre of Zmievskaya Balka
Elisabeth von Thadden	1890–1944,	German	educator executed	Berlin-Plötzensee

Law, business

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Klaus Bonhoeffer	1901–1945	German	jurist, resistance fighter	executed, Berlin
Betsie ten Boom	1885–1944 Ravensbrück	Dutch	book keeper	Pernicious anemia
Casper ten Boom	1859–1944 Scheveningen Prison	Dutch	watchmaker	tuberculosis, mistreatment
Hans von Dohnanyi	1902–1945	German	jurist, resistance fighter	executed, Sachsenhausen
Reinhold Frank	1896–1945 Berlin-Plötzensee	German	lawyer, member of July 20 Plot	executed
Martin Gauger	1905–1941, NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein	German	jurist, pacifist, member of the Kreisau Circle
Maurice Halbwachs	1877–1945	French	sociologist, economist, philosopher, developer of collective memory	Buchenwald
Franz Kaufmann	1886–1944	German	jurist	Sachsenhausen
Wilhelm Mautner	1889–1944	Austrian	economist	Auschwitz concentration camp
Helmuth James Graf von Moltke	1907–1945	German	jurist, founder of the Kreisau Circle	executed, Berlin-Plötzensee
Alfred Müller	1888 – 1945, Dachau	Croatian	entrepreneur
Leo Müller	1894 – 1941, Jasenovac	Croatian	entrepreneur
Karl Sack	1896–1945	German	jurist, member of the July 20 plot	executed, Flossenbürg
Rüdiger Schleicher	1895–1945	German	resistance fighter	executed, Berlin
Armin Schreiner	1874–1941	Croatian	industrialist	Jasenovac
Kazimierz Proszyński	1875–1945	Polish	inventor	Mauthausen
Elisabeth de Rothschild	1902–1945	French	wife of Baron Philippe de Rothschild	Ravensbrück

Theology, spirituality, religion

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Kai Munk	1898–1944	Danish	theologian, playwright	murdered by an SS-Sonderkommando, Hørbylunde/Denmark
Yitzchak Shimon Gottlieb	?, ?	Polish	Talmud Chacham, Rabbi
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	1906–1945, Flossenbürg	German	Lutheran pastor, theologian,	Hanged with thin wire
Regina Jonas	1902–1944, Auschwitz	German	woman Rabbi
Jochen Klepper	1903–1942	German	theologian, journalist	suicide shortly before deportation, Berlin
Friedrich Lorenz	1897–1944	German	priest, member of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate	executed, Halle an der Saale (beheaded)
Paul Schneider	1897–1939, Buchenwald	German	clergyman	lethal injection
Edith Stein	1891–1942, Auschwitz	German	nun, Catholic saint (born Jewish)	gas chamber
Sándor Büchler	1869–1944, Auschwitz	Hungarian	rabbi, historian
Avraham Yitzchak Bloch	1891–1941	Lithuanian	Chief Rabbi, rosh yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva	murdered in a massacre of the male population of Telz
Elchonon Wasserman	1875–1941, Kovno	Lithuanian	rabbi, rosh yeshiva
Azriel Rabinowitz	1905–1941	Lithuanian	rabbi, rosh yeshiva at the Telz Yeshiva	murdered in a massacre of the male population of Telz
Shimon Shkop	1860–1940, Grodno	Lithuanian	rosh yeshiva, Talmudic scholar
Maximilian Kolbe	1894–1941, Auschwitz	Polish	friar, Catholic saint	lethal injection
Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski	1913–1945, Dachau	Polish	priest
Karl Ernst Krafft	1900–1945, during transport to Buchenwald	Swiss	astrologer, occultist
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira	1889–1943, Aktion Erntefest	Polish	Rabbi
Menachem Ziemba	1883–1943, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Polish	Rabbi
Maria Skobtsova	1891–1945, Ravensbrück concentration camp	Russian	Russian Orthodox nun, saint	gas chamber

Sport

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Estella Agsteribbe	1909–1943, Auschwitz	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Alfred Flatow	1869–1942, Theresienstadt	German	gymnast; 3-time Olympic gold medalist & 1-time silver medalist
Gustav Flatow	1875–1945, Theresienstadt	German	gymnast; 2-time Olympic gold medalist
Bronisław Czech	1908–1944, Auschwitz	Polish	skier: Olympian
János Garay (fencer)	1889–1945, Mauthausen	Hungarian	fencer; Olympic gold, silver, and bronze medalist
Oszkár Gerde	1883–1944, Mauthausen	Hungarian	fencer; 2-time Olympic gold medalist
Eddy Hamel	1902–1943, Auschwitz	American	football player, AFC Ajax
Lilli Henoch	1899–1942, Riga Ghetto	German	4 world records (discus, shot put, and 4x100-m relay), 10 German national championships,
Otto Herschmann	1877–1942, Izbica concentration camp	Austrian	fencer & swimmer; 2-time Olympic silver medalist
Roman Kantor	1912–1943, Majdanek concentration camp	Polish	fencer; Olympian
Gerrit Kleerekoper	1897–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	coach Dutch gymnastics team 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games
Józef Klotz	1900–1941	Polish	Polish national soccer team
Janusz Kusociński	1907–1940	Polish	athlete;1932 Los Angeles men's athletics gold medalist	executed in Palmiry
Salo Landau	1903–1944, Gräditz concentration camp	Dutch	chess player
Vera Menchik	1906–1944	British-Czech	chess player; world champion	killed in a V-1 rocket bombing raid in South London
Helena Nordheim	1903–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Victor Perez	1911–1945, Auschwitz	Tunisian	boxer; world flyweight champion
Attila Petschauer	1904–1943, Davidovka concentration camp	Hungarian	fencer; 2-time Olympic gold medalist & 1-time silver medalist
Ans Polak	1906–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Dawid Przepiórka	1880–1940	Polish	chess player; chess Olympian	executed, Warsaw
Werner Seelenbinder	1904–1944	German	wrestler; Olympian	executed, Brandenburg an der Havel
Jud Simons	1904–1943, Sobibór	Dutch	gymnast (team); Olympic gold medalist
Leon Sperling	1900–1941, Lemberg Ghetto	Polish	left wing on national soccer team
András Székely	1909–1943,	Hungarian	swimmer, Olympic silver (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay)
Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman	1907–1943, Majdanek concentration camp	Polish	swimmer, Olympic 4×200-m freestyle relay
Karel Treybal	1885–1941	Czech	chess player; chess Olympian	executed, Prague
Johann Trollmann	1907–1943, Neuengamme	German	boxer; German national champion
Heinrich Wolf	1875–1943, Vienna	Austrian	chess player

Politics, resistance

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Edgar André	1894–1936, Hamburg	German	Communist	executed
Friedrich Aue	1896–1944, Brandenburg	German	Communist	executed
Judith Auer	1905–1944, Berlin	German	Resistance fighter	executed
Olga Benário Prestes	1908–1942, Ravensbrück	German-Brazilian	Communist
Victor Basch	1877–1945	French	Esthetician, politician	assassinated by the Vichy French Milice
Pierre Brossolette	1903–1944	French	high resistance leader	committed suicide, not to speak under torture by the Gestapo
Jean Moulin	1899–1943	French	high resistance leader	tortured to death by the Gestapo
Jean Zay	1904–1944	French	politician, former minister of French Government	assassinated by the Vichy French Milice
Bernhard Bästlein	1894–1944, Brandenburg	German	Communist	executed
Kazimierz Bartel	1882–1941	Polish	Prime Minister of Poland 1926–1930	executed
Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff	d. 1945	German	Diplomat	murdered in custody, Berlin
Cato Bontjes van Beek	1920–1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Resistance fighter	executed
Rudolf Breitscheid	1874–1944, Buchenwald	German	Social democrat
Hans Coppi	1916–1942, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Resistance fighter	executed
Hilde Coppi	1909–1943, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Resistance fighter	executed
Tone Čufar	1905–1942	Slovenian	Resistance fighter	shot during an escape attempt
Jenő Deutsch  (Eugen Deutsch)	1879–1944	Hungarian	Social democrat politician
Otto Eggerstedt	d. 1933, Esterwegen	German	Social democrat
Fritz Elsas	d. 1945, Sachsenhausen	German	Politician
Georg Elser	1903–1945, Dachau	German	Manual laborer, Rotfront-Kämpfer	executed
Leon Feldhendler	1910–1945, Sobibor concentration camp	Polish	Resistance fighter	murdered by Narodowe Siły Zbrojne
Paweł Frenkiel	d. 1943	Polish	Jewish Military Union leader	executed
Yitzhak Gitterman	1889–1943	Polish	Politician, Director of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee	fighting in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler	1884–1945, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Mayor of Leipzig, Putschist	executed
Willi Graf	1918–1943, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	White Rose resistance fighter; student	Guillotined
Herschel Grynszpan	1921–1943/1945, location and date of death not known, possibly Gestapo-Prison Berlin-Moabit	German	Assassin
Max Habermann	d. 1944, prison in Gifhorn	German	Trade unionist
Albrecht Haushofer	1903–1945, Berlin-Moabit	German	Diplomat, writer	executed
Rudolf Henning	d. 1944, Sachsenhausen	German		executed
Rudolf Hilferding	1877–1941, in Gestapo custody, Paris	German	Social democrat
Otto Hirsch	d. 1941, Mauthausen concentration camp	German	Representative of German Jews
Camill Hoffmann	d. 1944, Auschwitz	German	Diplomat, writer
Martin Hoop	1892–1933, Zwickau	German	Communist, District leader of KPD in Saxony
Kurt Huber	1893–1943, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	White Rose resistance fighter, professor	Guillotined
Franz Jacob	d. 1944, Brandenburg	German	Communist	executed
Walter Krämer	d. 1941, KZ Goslar	German	Communist	"shot while trying to escape",
Marian Kudera	d. 1944, Dachau	German	Resistance fighter	executed
Albert Kuntz	d. 1945, Nordhausen	German	Communist	after torture
Ludwig Landmann	1868-5 March 1945	German	DDP politician, Mayor of Frankfurt	starved to death in hiding place
Julius Leber	1891–1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Socialist	executed
Käthe Leichter	1895–1942, Bernburg Euthanasia Centre	Austrian	Politician, economist	executed
Wilhelm Leuschner	1890–1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Politician	executed
Marinus van der Lubbe	1909–1934, Leipzig	Dutch	Arsonist
August Lütgens	d. 1933, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist	executed
Georges Mandel	1885–1944	French	Politician, resistance leader	murdered in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Rosa Manus	d. 1943, Ravensbrück	German	Women's rights advocate
Walter Möller	d. 1933, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist	executed
Ottilie Pohl	d. 1942, Theresienstadt	German	Resistance fighter
Fritz Pröll	1915–1944, Nordhausen	German	Resistance fighter	suicide due to threatened torture
Christoph Probst	1918–1943, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	White Rose resistance fighter, student	Guillotined
Joseph Roth	1896–1945	German	Teacher and politician	murdered by a poison injection after prison in Buchenwald
Stefan Rowecki	1895–1944, Warsaw	Polish	General, leader of the Armia Krajowa, journalist	executed
Anton Saefkow	1903–1944, Zuchthaus Brandenburg	German	Communist, resistance fighter	executed
Werner Scharff	1912–1945, Sachsenhausen	German	Resistance fighter, electrician	executed
Rudolf von Scheliha	1897–1942, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Red Orchestra resistance fighter, diplomat	Guillotined
Richard Schmitz	1885–1938 survived Dachau	Austrian	Mayor of Vienna
Alex Schmorell	1917–1943, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	White Rose resistance fighter, student	Guillotined
Ernst Schneller	d. 1944, Sachsenhausen	German	KPD politician	executed
Werner Scholem	d. 1940, Buchenwald	German	Communist
Hans Scholl	1918–1943, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	White Rose resistance fighter, medical student	Guillotined
Sophie Scholl	1921–1943, Munich–Stadelheim Prison	German	White Rose resistance fighter, student	Guillotined
Slavko Šlander	1909–1941	Slovenian	Resistance fighter	executed
Stefan Starzyński	1893–1943, fate unknown, possibly died in Dachau	Polish	Politician, economist, writer
Ilse Stöbe	1911–1942, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Red Orchestra resistance fighter	Guillotined
Hannah Szenes	1921–1944	Hungarian	Jewish partisan	executed
Bruno Tesch	1913–1933, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist	executed
Ernst Thälmann	1886–1944, Buchenwald	German	Leader of KPD	executed
Mathias Thesen	d. 1944, Sachsenhausen	German	KPD politician, trade unionist	executed
Adam von Trott zu Solz	d. 1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	Diplomat	executed
Karl Wolff	d. 1933, Amtsgericht Altona	German	Communist	executed
Szmul Zygielbojm	d. 1943	Polish	Bund leader	suicide in protest of Nazism

Military

Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Achievements	Cause of death
Charles Delestraint	1879–1945	French	general, resistance leader	assassinated in Dachau concentration camp
Erich Fellgiebel	1886–1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	officer and resistance fighter in the Third Reich	executed
Ludwig Beck	1880–1944, Berlin	German	General, Putschist	executed
Werner von Haeften	1908–1944, Berlin	German	jurist, adjutant of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg	executed
Erich Hoepner	1886–1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	demoted Colonel General, member of Military opposition about Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg	executed
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim	1905–1944, Berlin	German	Colonel, Putschist	executed
Friedrich Olbricht	1888–1944, Berlin	German	General, Putschist	executed
Hans Oster	1887–1945, Flossenbürg	German	Chief of staff	executed
Harro Schulze-Boysen	1909–1942, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	officer, publicist	executed
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg	1907–1944, Berlin	German	Chief of staff of General Army Office, Putschist	executed
Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel	1886–1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	military commander in occupied France	executed
Henning von Tresckow	1901–1944, near Ostrov, Russia	German	Major General, Putschist	suicide
Erwin von Witzleben	1881–1944, Berlin-Plötzensee	German	retired Field Marshal	executed
Wilhelm Canaris	1887–1945, Flossenbürg	German	military information service	executed
Erwin Rommel	1891–1944	German	Army(Wehrmacht), Field Marshal	forced suicide
Dmitry Karbyshev	1880–1945, Mauthausen	Russian	Army(RKKA), engineer commander	executed
Dimitri Zouralis	d. 1941	Greek	Army(Greek), Commander	executed
Rudolf Viest	1890–1945, Flossenbürg	Slovak	Division General, commander of the Slovak National Uprising	executed
Ján Golian	1906–1945, Flossenbürg	Slovak	Brigadier General, commander of the Slovak National Uprising	executed

See also

• List of Holocaust survivors
• List of banned authors during the Third Reich
• List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz

References

1. "Pick biography". www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
2. "Blumenthal biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
3. "HCM: About Felix Hausdorff". hcm.uni-bonn.de. Retrieved 2016-04-15.

External links

• The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names