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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“Culture’s essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)