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Klara Goldberger 1913 - 1945

Born 5.4.1913 in Budapest
Died 17.5.1945 in Mauthausen

The Hungarian Jew Klara Goldberger was born on 8 April 1913 in Budapest. He parents were Iren Klein and David Gero. Her husband was called László Goldberger. After the German occupation ... read more

Eliezer Lipa Bloch 1889 - 1945

Born 18.6.1889 in Uman
Died 3.1.1945 in Hartheim

Eliezer Lipa Bloch was a Zionist. An activist of the General Zionist party and the director of the Israel National Fund in Poland and Tarbut school network in the 1930s. A delegate in World Zionist ... read more

Kazimierz Poprawa 1914 - 1945

Born 13.1.1914 in Ostrowo
Died 19.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Kazimierz Poprawa, born on 13 January 1914 in Ostrowo, near Wrzesnia in Poland. Son of Stanisław and Elzbieta. He spent his childhood and youth in Wrzesnia, Poland. As a member of a Wrzesnia branch ... read more

Jakub Schreiber 1894 - 1945

Born 24.3.1894 in Brzesko
Died 3.2.1945 in Gusen

Janek (Jakub) Schreiber was a middle-class businessman who had a small shop in Kraków, where he sold leather and shoe supplies. He and his cherished wife, Adela ... read more

Abraham Morpurgo 1901 - 1945

Born 27.3.1901 in Amsterdam
Died 1.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Abraham Morpurgo was my grandfather. The family lived a comfortable life in Amsterdam before the war. My grandfather was the owner of a retail and wholesale business dealing in household goods. The ... read more

Louis Schenkkan 1915 - 1941

Born 29.1.1915 in Amsterdam
Died 14.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Louis Schenkkan was arrested during the razzia in Amsterdam on 22 February 1941 and then deported to Schoorl – Buchenwald – Mauthausen. Saskia Leune, grandniece Detailed Biography ... read more

Михаил Александрович Акимов / Michail Alexandrowitsch Akimow 1920 - 1944

Born 23.2.1920 in Leningrad / Sankt-Peterburg
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Michail Alexandrovich Akimov was born on 23 February 1920 in Leningrad. After completing eight years of general schooling he trained as a cutter in the Factory and Works’ School of Mechanical ... read more

Filippo D'Agostino 1885 - 1944

Born 15.3.1885 in Gravina
Died 14.7.1944 in Hartheim

Filippo D’Agostino was a railway official. As an important politician of his time, he and his wife Rita Majerotti were involved in founding the Communist Party of Italy (Congress of Livorno). ... read more

Лука Яковлевич Шушкович / Luka Jakowlewitsch Schuschkowitsch 1896 - 1945

Born 13.10.1896 in Werebki
Died 27.2.1945 in Gusen

Whenever I think about my grandfather Luka Yakovlevich Shushkevich, I see a spring morning in 1944 in my mind’s eye. It was April, the sun was shining, and my grandmother was hanging the ... read more

Adam Fuks 1913 - 1945

Born 12.10.1913 in Radom
Died 7.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Adam Fuks came from a polonized German family. His father was Franciszek Fuchs and mother Bronisława Talma. His mother family came from Saxony in mid 18th century.  Agnieszka Monika Sampanis read more