Famous Jews Interactive

Jewish Heroes, Martyrs and Scapegoats

[157] Dr. Louis Slotin -- Saved 7 fellow scientists May 21, 1946 at the Los Alamos atomic research project in New Mexico, USA.
[156] Miklos Radnoti -- famous Hungarian poet who was slandered cruelly by fascism and died tragically in the 'forced march'
[159] Anne Frank -- Young Diarist, killed in Europe
[50] Eli Cohen -- Arguably the greatest and most successful Israeli spy
[52] Meir Kahane -- founder the militant Jewish Defense League
[49] Herschel Grynszpan -- assassin of Nazi foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath
[49] Judith Resnik -- Astronaut, died when challenger exploded on take off.
[42] Jonathan Pollard -- sentenced to life in prison for giving crucial information to a U.S. ally
[41] David Marcus -- Colone David Marcus, American officer who died for Jerusalem in Israel's war of independence.
[29] Ron Arad -- Israeli Air Force pilot, now Iranian hostage
[29] Raoul Wallenberg -- Swedish diplomat, righteous gentile (with some Jewish ancestry)
[21] Menachem Mendel Beilis -- Accused of murdering a Christian child and using his blood to bake matzos in Kiev, Russia, 1911
[19] Shlomo Ben Yosef -- The first Jewish warrior in Eretz Israel that was hanged by the British in 1938
[18] Leo Frank -- Lynched by a mob for a crime later proved to have been commited by someone else.
[20] Alfred Dreyfus -- Captain in the French army, victim of antisemitism (1894)
[15] Dmitri Klebanov -- Composer and scapegoat, from Ukraine
[15] Eva Mozes -- Holocaust survivor and activist
[14] Hans Krasa -- Composer with a 'spirit of ironic poetry', perished in the Terezin concentration camp
[14] Natan Shcharansky -- From Russian Refusenick to Member of Knesset