Sagan, Szachne-Efraim
| Surname, Name The spelling of names follows “Spis imion żydowskich” [The list of Jewish first names] (Warszawa 1928), as it was the only means to avoid the doubling of people on the list. Exception was made for famous individuals whose names are widely known in another form than that proposed in “Spis”.
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Sagan, Szachne-Efraim |
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| Date of birth | 1892 |
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Location The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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Warsaw |
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State The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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| Document | Paraguayan citizenship certificate |
| Fate | perished |
Sagan (Zagan), Szachno (Szachne) Efroim (1892–1942?) – a journalist, Jewish activist, and one of the organizers of the Jewish Combat Organization
He was born in Kraków. During the First World War, he fought in the Austrian Army. Thereafter he lived in Warsaw, where he was active in various organizations and institutions. He helped develop Jewish lay education, and also served as a Member of the Board of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists. During the War, he found himself in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, he played a prominent role in organizing an armed resistance. He voluntarily went to the Umschlagplatz in order to find his wife and two children, whereupon he disappeared without a trace.