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Adrien Marcouyre 1893 - 1944

Born 10.12.1893 in Roubia
Died 17.12.1944 in Melk

My great-grandfather died during deportation. I have no picture of him or information available, and his birth certificate and that of his son, who died in 1969, record only a few ... read more

Ricardo García Baonza 1909 - 1941

Born 7.2.1909 in Cabanillas de la Sierra
Died 23.12.1941 in Gusen

Son of Celedonio García y García and Beatriz Baonza, grandson of Luciano García y García. 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

Czesław Podbielski 1900 - 1940

Born 20.6.1900 in Żyłowo
Died 12.9.1940 in Mauthausen

Czesław Podbielski was a professional soldier serving in 1939 in Border Gard in Katowice. Right before the war has started, his wife and three little daughters were evacuated to his distant family ... read more

Ernesto Venegoni 1899 - 1945

Born 19.8.1899 in Legnano
Died 27.3.1945 in Linz

I am sending you a letter from Mr. Boccaccio from Turin to my grandmother Giuseppina, in which he describes my grandfather Ernesto’s final days. I am also sending a photograph of my grandfather ... read more

Иван Алексеевич Мишин / Iwan Alexeewitsch Mischin

Born 1912 in Nowyj Krjaschim / Machalino
Died 15.11.1942 in Gusen

My grandfather Michail Grigorevich Matvienko, a sergeant in the 117th Rifle Division, was reported missing in action near Gomel in mid-September 1941. For some years now, I have been trying, without ... read more

Sándor Török 1925 - 1944

Born 5.7.1925 in Cluj / Cluj-Napoca
Died 5.12.1944 in Hartheim

If I am to write about the true face of humanity in circumstances as extreme as those in the concentration camp, then I also want to tell of the Török family before indifference and ... read more

Sándor Rátkai

Born 1869 in Subotica
Died .5.1945 in Mauthausen

Sándor Rátkai, born 1869 in Szabadka/ Subotica (current day Serbia) Died in May 1945, in Mauthausen Occupation: opera and operetta singer After several years of working as a singer, ... read more

Antonio Salcito 1887 - 1945

Born 15.7.1887 in Casal Nuovo Monterotaro
Died 27.4.1945 in Mauthausen

On 16 Februar 1944 Antonia Salcito, father of seven children, captain of the Brigata Garibaldi of Foligno, was arrested in Roviglieto (Perugia) together with his son Vincenzo; his son Franco was also ... read more

Vicente Tomás Mogino 1910 - 1942

Born 15.9.1910 in Muro de Alcoy
Died 6.1.1942 in Gusen

Secretary of the Revolutionary Committee of Defense (U.G.T. – P.C.E – I.R). However, before that, he was elected a town hall member. He was also a comptroller in the elections to deputies ... read more