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Nina Andrycz (11 November 1912 – 31 January 2014) was a Polish actress and the wife of Józef Cyrankiewicz. She studied law at the Wilno University.
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Izrail Moiseyevich Leplevsky (Russian: Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский; 1894 - July 28, 1938) was the head of the GPU. He was part of the Intelligence Service and Secret police apparatus in the Ukrainian ...
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Langfang (Russian: Александр Иванович Лангфанг) (1907–1990) was a Soviet security officer and Lieutenant-General in the NKVD.
Russian-born American violinist and teacher (1909–1995)
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Josef Gingold (Russian: Иосиф Гингольд; October 28 [O.S. October 15] 1909 – January 11, 1995) was a Belarusian-Jewish-born classical violinist and teacher, who lived most of his life in the ...
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Ganna Walska (born Hanna Puacz on June 26, 1887 – March 2, 1984) was a Polish opera singer and garden enthusiast who created the Lotusland botanical gardens at her mansion in Montecito, California. She ...
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Anna Margolin (Yiddish: אַננאַ מאַרגאָלין) is the pen name of Rosa Harning Lebensboym (1887–1952) a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet.
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Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (Hebrew: אהרון ליב שטיינמן), also Shtainman or Steinman (born 1912-1914) is a prominent Haredi rabbi and posek (halakhic authority) in Bnei Brak, Israel. Following the death ...
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Romuald Traugutt (16 January 1826 – 5 August 1864) was a Polish general and war hero best known for commanding the January Uprising of 1863. From October 1863 to August 1864 he was the leader of the i ...
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David Dubinsky (born David Isaac Dobnievski; February 22, 1892 – September 17, 1982) was an American labor leader. He served as president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) between ...
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Usievalad Ihnatoŭski (Belarusian: Усевалад Ігнатоўскі, Russian: Все́волод Мака́рович Игнато́вский; 19 April 1881 — 4 February 1931) was a Belarusian politician, scholar and the first president of the ...
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Lucien Lublin (1909, Brest-Litovsk – 1995) was a French electrical engineer. A socialist Zionist who became a leader of the French Jewish Resistance during World War II with Abraham Polonski and David ...
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Marcian Yakovlevich Germanovich (October 29, 1895 – September 20, 1937) was a Soviet division commander and Komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going ...
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Alyaksandr Ivanavich Tsvikyevich (Belarusian: Аляксандр Іванавіч Цвікевіч, Polish: Alaksandr Ćwikiewicz; 22 June 1888 – 30 December 1937) was a Belorussian politician, historian, jurist and a philosopher ...
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Pesakh "Paul" Novick (7 September 1891 – 21 August 1989) was a radical Jewish-American journalist, political commentator, and editor. Novick is best remembered as the long time editor-in-chief of the ...
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Ilya Pavlovich Mazuruk (Russian: Илья Павлович Мазурук; 20 July 1906 – 2 January 1989) was a pilot, polar explorer, and Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Sara Szweber (born Pesl Katelianska) (born circa 1875 in Brest Litovsk, died 1966 in New York) was one of the leaders of the Bund and a trade unionist in Tsarist Russia, the Second Polish Republic and ...