Name
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Birth
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Nationality
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Achievements
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Death
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Location and Circumstances of Death
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Reference
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Egon Friedell
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21 January 1878
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Austrian
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Writer, cultural historian and actor.
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16 March 1938
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After the arrival of two SA officers to arrest him at his home in Vienna, Friedell committed suicide by jumping out of a window.
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[1]
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Joachim Gottschalk
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10 April 1904
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German
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Film star.
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6 November 1941
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Gottschalk and his wife, Meta Wolff, committed suicide using gas with their son just before the arrival of the Gestapo at their Berlin home. Gottschalk was told he would have to separate from his wife who was Jewish and their half-Jewish son. He refused.
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[2]
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Max Jacob
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12 July 1876
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French
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Poet, painter and novelist.
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5 March 1944
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Jacob, a Jew, died from pneumonia in the Drancy deportation camp while awaiting deportation to a German concentration camp.
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[3]
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Stanisław Saks
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30 December 1897
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Polish
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Mathematician.
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23 November 1942
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Executed by the Gestapo in Warsaw after his arrest for activities with the Polish underground.
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[4]
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Jura Soyfer
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8 December 1912
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Ukrainian
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Journalist and cabaret writer.
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15/16 February 1939
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Died of typhus in Buchenwald concentration camp where he was imprisoned as a political prisoner.
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