List of Victims of Nazism - Literature and Publishing

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
Benjamin Fondane 1898–1944 French poet, literary critic gas chamber at Auschwitz
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
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 writer gas chamber at Auschwitz

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