Back

Biographies

Biographical details are available for the following names:


Светолик Драгачевац / Svetolik Dragačevac 1883 - 1942

Born 15.4.1883 in Požega Užička
Died 9.7.1942 in Mauthausen

Svetolik Dragačevac was born on 15 April 1883 as the third child of Maksim Dragačevac in Požega Užička. After completing his primary school education he spent some years assisting his father in busi ... read more

Gregorio Huete Rodríguez 1920 - 1941

Born 29.4.1920 in Madrid
Died 19.12.1941 in Gusen

Gregorio was born in Madrid on 29 April 1920. When he died in the concentration camp he was 21. He was captured on 4 June 1940 in Dunkirk and interned in Stalag XII / D (Treves). He entered the ... read more

Oskar Roubíček 1898 - 1945

Born 28.2.1898 in Dvorce/Tučapy
Died 14.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Oskar Roubíček was born 28 February 1894 in Dvorce/Tučapy. He was a locksmith by trade. He was married to Olga Roubíček born Krutzký on 28 September 1896. Olga survived the war as ... read more

Jean Malavoy 1903 - 1945

Born 7.11.1903 in Rochefort-sur-Mer
Died 13.2.1945 in Gusen

Jean Malavoy, the son of Vice-Admiral Henri Malavoy, was born on 7 November 1903 in Rochefort and died on 13 February 1945 in the Gusen I concentration camp. He was a chief mining engineer. After ... read more

Jacob Noah Finkelstein 1898 - 1945

Born 19.4.1898
Died 8.5.1945 in Wels

For more than 63 years after his liberation from Mauthausen, my father, Sol Finkelstein, was haunted by the uncertainty of what happened to his father, Jacob Noah Finkelstein. Tragically separated in ... read more

Alfred Jones 1914 - 1944

Born 18.8.1914 in Port Talbot
Died 9.11.1944 in Mauthausen

Alfred Jones enlisted at Port Talbot into the Royal Artillery on 19 August 1931 aged 17, he had added a year to his age so he could join up. After training he was posted to the 22/24 Brigade and on ... read more

Fernando Polo Tapias 1914 - 1941

Born 11.6.1914 in Barcelona
Died 16.11.1941 in Gusen

Fernando Polo Tapias and his father Domenech were anarchists. His father died in a Barcelona prison, beaten up. However, when the war broke out in Spain in 1936, Fernando was doing his military ... read more

František Kolaček 1881 - 1942

Born 9.12.1881 in Brno
Died 7.5.1942 in Mauthausen

František Koláček completed his school leaving certificate in 1900 at a grammar school in the Královské Vinohrady district of Prague and then enrolled in the Faculty of ... read more

Piotr Kucemba 1898 - 1945

Born 26.7.1898 in Warszawa
Died 19.5.1945 in Ebensee

Piotr Jakub Kucemba was born in Warsaw. He married on Zofia Kucemba (nee Rachaus), with whom he had two children – son Bogdan Kucemba, also concentration camp prisoner (Groß Rosen, ... read more

Joan Ciuraneta Filella 1892 - 1941

Born 3.1.1892 in Palma d'Ebre (La)
Died 2.5.1941 in Gusen

Juan Ciuraneta Filella was born in la Palma d'Ebre (Tarragona, Spain) on 3 January 1892 in a family of farmers. He had two brothers and one sister. At a young age he went to Sabadell where he worked ... read more