Agnon, Samuel Joseph
1888-1970, born in Galicia, he wrote in Hebraic. As a Zionist, he lived from 1908 onwards in Palestine.
Aichinger, Ilse
born 1921, Austrian writer who lived with her mother in Vienna during Nazi rule. A “half-Jew”, as long as she was a minor, her mother was able to protect her from deportation. When she came of age, she was then kept hidden by her mother in their one-room apartment until the end of the war.
Aktionsgruppe Banat
A group of German-speaking school pupils and students in Temeswar (Rumania), that published critical texts. They established themselves in 1972 and were dissolved by the secret police force Securitate in 1975.
Alfaro Siqueiros, David
1896-1974, Mexican painter and graphic artist
Altes Herz geht auf die Reise
– novel by Hans Fallada, published in 1936
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
A Jewish aid organisation set up in the USA in 1914 to help Jews all over the world.
Anderson, Robin
also known as Robin Hay Anderson, born in 1913, British actor and writer
André, Etkar
1894 – 1936, German communist politician in the KPD, resistance fighter, arrested on 5 March 1933 and executed following an unjust trial in Hamburg on 10 July 1936.
Antinazi-Freiheitsbewegung (Anti-Nazi Freedom Movement)
Exile organisation of German opponents of Hitler in Columbia, 1941 – 1943
Aragon, Louis
(1897-1982), French writer
