René Niel 1897 - 1944
Born 4.6.1897 in Romeyer
Died 21.8.1944 in Hartheim
René Niel was born June 7 1897 in Romeyer. Romeyer is a small village in the foothills of Vercors where resistance to Nazism would develop intensively during World War II. In 1916, ... read more
Παναγιώτης Χιωτέρης / Panagiotis Chioteris 1913 - 1944
Born 10.1.1913 in Elioli
Died 6.12.1944 in Melk
He is the brother of Konstantinos Chioteris (Κωνσταντίνος Χιωτέρης), who also died in Mauthausen. Aikaterini ... read more
Marie Stará 1902 - 1942
Born 19.3.1902 in Praha
Died 24.10.1942 in Mauthausen
The history of the Starý family Youth and Growing Up Jaroslav Starý was born on 22 April 1891 in Sobíňov to parents Josef Starý and Josefa Stará. He trained as a ... read more
Friedrich Lehre 1895 - 1943
Born 27.2.1895 in Nagold
Died 4.1.1943 in Mauthausen
Son of Gottlob Christoph Friedrich Lehre (1860-1925) and Elisabetha Katharina (Schuster) Lehre (1867-1932). Tom Eisenhardt, seventh cousin read more
Fritz Sidlof 1917 - 1945
Born 8.6.1917 in Wien
Died 1.5.1945 in Gusen
Fritz was the beloved son of Regina and Leopoldo Sidlof, who both died in 1942, and most loved brother of his sister Julie pictured here in 1938. Fritz was planning to study architecture in Vienna ... read more
Wilhelm Grafe 1900 - 1940
Born 5.6.1900 in Wiesenthal
Died 10.2.1940 in Mauthausen
Wilhelm was the son of Wilhelm Grafe and Antonia Fischer, the husband of Irmingard Jahn. Wilhelm was arrested for his religious beliefs („Bibelforscher“). See: Wilhelm Grafe (1900-1940) ... read more
Edmund Bursche 1881 - 1940
Born 17.7.1881 in Zgierz
Died 25.7.1940 in Gusen
The pastor Prof. Edmund Bursche was born on 17 July 1881 in Zgierz and was a Polish Protestant theologian and church historian. He was the son of the pastor Ernest Wilhelm Bursche and the ... read more
Władysław Szarlej 1915 - 1945
Born 24.8.1915
Died 12.3.1945 in Mauthausen
Władysław Szarlej was the son of Peter Szarlej and Stanislawa Szarlej, brother of Aniela, Bronislawa and Bogdan Szarlej. He was captured in Warsaw, Poland, with his fiance’s family (Jewish), w ... read more
Novak Oparušić 1909 - 1944
Born 7.7.1909 in Donji Petrovci
Died 25.7.1944 in Linz
Novak Oparušić was born as son of Zorka and Despot Oparušić in the village of Donji Petrovci in Vojvodina, Serbia, a little village of around 1.000 inhabitants, mostly farmers. His f ... read more
Franz Paul Erath 1913 - 1940
Born 19.12.1913 in Dunningen
Died 11.2.1940 in Mauthausen
Franz Paul Erath came into the world in Dunningen in the district of Rottweil as the seventh of ten children, of whom five died shortly after birth. In 1923, his parents Anna and Franz Xaver moved ... read more
