Franz Josef Messner 1896 - 1945
Born 8.12.1896 in Brixlegg
Died 23.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Messner became director or the Semperit Works in Vienna in 1937 and after 1938 maintained close links to the resistance group centred around Heinrich Maier and Walter Caldonazzi. From 1942 onwards, ... read more
Joan Deu Casanovas 1914 - 1941
Born 27.6.1914 in Caldes de Montbui
Died 22.11.1941 in Gusen
Born in Caldes de Montbui on 27 June 1914, he was son of Prim Deu Altarriba and Mercè Casanovas Pascual. He had three sisters: Anna, Vicenta and Rosa. He was single, working as a farmer and ... read more
Marija Hafner 1895 - 1942
Born 19.1.1895 in Naklo
Died 20.4.1942 in Mauthausen
On 16 April 1942 the Slovenian resistance movement shot five German collaborators, among them the German mayor of Jesenice, Karl Luckmann. As a reprisal for this action, SS Gruppenführer ... read more
Giacomo Menascè 1922 - 1945
Born 11.6.1922 in Ródos
Died 25.3.1945 in Mauthausen
Giacomo Menasce: The Uncle We Never Knew Jaco Menashe (Giacomo Menasce in Italian) was born on 11 June 1922 on the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. His parents were Isaac Menashe and Reina ... read more
Teodoro Pedro Bonilla Quiles 1902 - 1941
Born 10.11.1902 in Herrera del Duque
Died 12.11.1941 in Gusen
Teodoro Pedro Bonilla Quiles defended the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. He was subject to Fascist repression at the hands of Franco’s army and fled to France, where he joined the ... read more
Андрей Павлович Булаев / Andrej Pawlowitsch Bulaew 1914 - 1942
Born 15.8.1914
Died 12.5.1942 in Mauthausen
Andrej Pawlowitsch Bulaew was born in the village Kevdo-Melsitovo, Kamensky district of the Penza region. He was soldier in the 66th Howitzer Artillery Regiment, 61th Infantry Division. On 16 August ... read more
Jan Zalewski 1896 - 1945
Born 17.1.1896 in Warszawa
Died 17.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Before the war, Jan Zalewski and his family lived at 19 Rybaki Street in Warsaw. He had a taxi company which was seized in September 1939. Later he founded a horse-drawn carriage company, where his ... read more
Enrico Bracesco 1910 - 1944
Born 10.4.1910 in Monza
Died 16.8.1944 in Hartheim
Enrico, the son of Francesco Bracesco and Maria Teruzzi, was the youngest of three brothers and sisters. His family was unquestionably anti-Fascist. His parents ran a restaurant, which became a cell ... read more
Ludwik Stępniak 1902 - 1941
Born 13.8.1902 in Wola
Died 31.7.1941 in Gusen
Ludwik Stępniak was born in 1902 in Wola Owsiana in the Kutno county in Warsaw governorate in the Russian partition of Polish lands. After the First World War, when Poland achieved independence, he ... read more
Nils Johan Harjo 1887 - 1944
Born 5.4.1887 in Sør-Varanger
Died 23.11.1944 in Melk
Nils Johan Harjo was born on 5 April 1887 in Sør-Varanger. He was the son of Johan Petter Harjo and Marie Efrosina, née Beddari. In 1910 he married Marie Elmine Sieppi, who came from ... read more
