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 |
| Maurice Halbwachs | 1877–1945 | French | philosopher | dysentery at Buchenwald |
| Georges Politzer | 1902–1942 | French | philosopher | executed by firing squad, by the Gestapo |
| 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 |
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“There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)