Notable Survivors
- Francis Akos (born 1922), born Weinman Akos Ferencz in Budapest, Hungary; Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist
- Heinrich Bertram, captain of the Cap Arcona
- Emil František Burian, musician and theatrical director, founder of Theater D, a leading avant-garde theater in interwar Europe
- Erwin Geschonneck, who later became a notable German actor, and whose story was made into a film in 1982
- Ernst Goldenbaum, East German politician
- Benjamin Jacobs (1919–2004) born Berek Jakubowicz in Dobra, Poland; dentist, holocaust speaker and author
- Philip Jackson, son of an American surgeon dead during the attacks
- Heinz Lord, German-American surgeon
- Sam Pivnik, art dealer and lecturer on the Holocaust
- Gustaaf Van Essche (1923–1979), Belgian politician
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