The surname מענדעלסאן is transliterated to English as Mendelssohn, Mendelsson, or Mendelson. It is a common Polish/German Jewish surname. The variant spellings are used interchangeably, often even within a single family.
Pevsner or Pevzner is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Fischer is a German occupational surname, meaning fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is Fisher.
Taube is a surname. It may refer to:
Kurt Gerstein was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS. After witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust as it was happening. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust. He died of an alleged suicide while in French custody.
Rabinovich or Rabinovitch, is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi". The Polish/Lithuanian equivalents are Rabinowitz or Rabinowicz.
The Gerstein Report was written in 1945 by Kurt Gerstein, Obersturmführer of the SS-TV, who served as Head of Technical Disinfection Services of the SS during the Second World War and in that capacity supplied a pesticide, based on hydrogen cyanide, Zyklon B, from Degesch to Rudolf Höss in Auschwitz and conducted the negotiations with the owners.
Witte are Dutch and Low German surnames meaning "(the) white one". Witte can also be a patronymic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eichhorn is a German surname meaning “squirrel”. Notable people with the surname include:
Kovalchuk, Kavalchuk, Kowalczuk (Polish), Covalciuc (Moldovan/Romanian), also transliterated as Kowalchuk, is a common East Slavic surname. The Kovalchuk name extends back to before 1500 AD in Kievan Rus.
Veltman is a Dutch surname translating as "field man". Notable people with the surname include:
Bednarski is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Noack is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Stankiewicz, Stankevich, or Stankievič is a Polish and Belarusian surname. It appears in various forms depending on the language.
Fuchs is a surname; it has as variants Fux, Fuhs and Fuchß. Notable persons bearing it include the following:
The surnames Beres, Béres, Berès, and Bereś may refer to:
Kuttner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Moll is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Moreau is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Szwarc is a Polonized-Yiddish version of the German surname Schwartz.
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