Unitarians
Christian religious community
Unseld, Siegfried
1924-2002, German publisher who was a publisher at the Suhrkamp publishing house in Frankfurt am Main from 1959 until his death
Valéry, Paul
1871-1945, important French poet in the first half of the 20th century, member of the Académie francaise and Professor for Poetry at the Collège de France, who refused to cooperate with the occupying forces during the Second World War.
van Praag, Siegfried
(1899-2002), Dutch writer
Villard, Oswald Garrison
1872-1949, American journalist and writer, publisher of the liberal magazine The Nation, supporter and later treasurer of the American Guild.
Vinaver, Chemjo
1895-1973, Polish conductor, composer and musical theorist who studied in Warsaw and Berlin, then became conductor at Berlin’s New Synagogue. Married the writer Mascha Kaléko in 1938, and emigrated to the USA in the same year. Move to Jerusalem in 1960.
Visum
A permit from a foreign country stamped in the passport that allows the passport holder to enter the respective country. Some countries also issue exit visas, without which it is not possible to leave the country in question.
Vochoč, Vladimír
(1894-1984) lawyer and diplomat. Czechoslovakian Consul in Marseilles from 1939 to 1941
Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1924 – 1941 autonomous republic in the Soviet Union with a German-speaking population whose descendants had emigrated to Russia in the 18th century following an edict by Catherine the Great.
von Rebay, Hilla
German abstract painter and collector of non-objective art, 1890–1967, built up the Solomon R. Guggenheim art collection and in 1937 helped Guggenheim establish the Guggenheim Foundation based in New York.
