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Wacław Ołdakowski 1896 - 1945

Born 10.11.1896
Died 25.1.1945 in Gusen

Wacław Ołdakowski, son of Tadeusz and Marianna, was born in Krzeczkowo Mianowskie on 10 November 1896. He went to a school in Rosochate Kościelne. Prior to the First World War he attended a Varsovian ... read more

Leopold Skoupý 1882 - 1941

Born 15.11.1882 in Šebrov
Died 10.12.1941 in Mauthausen

He was mayor of the village Šebrov, a Nazi Resistance fighter in Brno, in the Czech Republic, a farmer and a tradesman. Married to Hedvika Skoupá. They had a daughter, Josefa ... read more

Erwin Cohn 1923 - 1941

Born 9.6.1923 in Hamburg
Died 25.8.1941 in Mauthausen

The Cohn family already lived in the Isestraße before 1933. Max Cohn (1891–1941) had attended the higher vocational school by the Holstentor gate and then studied business. With his first ... read more

Hans Friedemann 1907 - 1943

Born 17.10.1907 in Kastellaun
Died 12.1.1943 in Gusen

‘Hansi’, as our mother called her brother Hans Friedemann, was only mentioned in passing in the family. Things like, ‘he was a kleptomaniac, went round in women’s ... read more

Janusz Szaybo 1904 - 1944

Born 23.5.1904 in Starachowice
Died 9.11.1944 in Mauthausen

Janusz Szaybo came from a technically gifted nobleman's family connected with Starachowice for many years. He was born in 1904. As a sixteen-year-old adolescent he took part in the Polish-Bolshevik ... read more

Ernst Schafer 1898 - 1942

Born 25.3.1898 in Wien
Died 28.9.1942 in Mauthausen

The author Ernst Schafer lived at 14 Bergsteiggasse in Vienna’s Hernals district. As a Jew he was persecuted by the National Socialist regime of terror on racist grounds, was imprisoned at ... read more

Jan Kazimierz Tryuk 1912 - 1943

Born 28.2.1912 in Pabianice
Died 8.7.1943 in Mauthausen

After finishing primary school, Jan Kazimierz Tryuk attended the state ‘Jędrzy Śniadecki’ grammar school in Pabianice, from which he graduated on 7 June 1932, going on to higher education ... read more

Marcus Bloom 1907 - 1944

Born 24.9.1907 in London
Died 6.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Captain Marcus Bloom, radio operator to the PRUNUS circuit of French Section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.). Arrested near Toulouse, France, April 1943. Paul McCue read more

Mario Vanzati 1911 - 1944

Born 27.8.1911 in Nova Milanese
Died 15.5.1944 in Ebensee

Mario Vanzati was born in Nova Milanese on 27 August 1911. He was one of the protagonists of the resistance in this town. The first meetings between local partisans took place in his house on the ... read more

Richard Franke 1906 - 1943

Born 20.1.1906 in Meerane
Died 18.1.1943 in Gusen

When the new Reich Minister of Justice, Otto Georg Thierack, took up his post in late summer 1942, he was determined to reorganise the German justice system. One of the plans he had in mind was not ... read more