Theology, Spirituality, Religion
| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kai Munk | 1898–1944, murdered by an SS-Sonderkommando, Hørbylunde/Denmark | Danish | theologian, playwright | |
| 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, suicide shortly before deportation, Berlin | German | theologian, journalist | |
| Friedrich Lorenz | 1897–1944, executed, Halle an der Saale | German | priest, member of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate | 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, murdered in a massacre of the male population of Telz | Lithuanian | Chief Rabbi, rosh yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva | |
| Elchonon Wasserman | 1875–1941, Kovno | Lithuanian | rabbi, rosh yeshiva | |
| Azriel Rabinowitz | 1905–1941, murdered in a massacre of the male population of Telz | Lithuanian | rabbi, rosh yeshiva at the Telz Yeshiva | |
| 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 |
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