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Ivan Senica 1908 - 1945

Born 25.5.1908 in Motnik
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ivan Senica was born on 25 May 1908 in the small flourishing city of Motnik located along the busy road between Carniola and Styria, Slovenian lands previously belonging to the Austro-Hungarian ... read more

Јово Коста Радмановић / Jovo Kosta Radmanović

Born 1922 in Donja Gata
Died 20.12.1943 in Mauthausen

Jovo Radmanović was born in 1922 in the village of Mala Gata (Bihać). He grew up in this village, which consisted of around 30 houses. Jovo was the fifth child of Kosta Radmanović, who died in Oc ... read more

Manuel Bolaños Díaz 1912 - 1941

Born 15.5.1912 in Puerto Real
Died 29.12.1941 in Gusen

  Manuel Bolaños Díaz was born on 15 May 1912 in Puerto Real, a small village near to the provincial capital Cádiz in southern Spain. His family consisted of his parents, ... read more

Kazimierz Dybiec 1919 - 1945

Born 15.7.1919
Died 8.5.1945

Stanisław Dybiec lived with his family at 24 Rybaki Street in Warsaw. He owned a horse-drawn carriage company, which was seized in September 1939. In 1940 he founded his own shipping company and also ... read more

Julián Mur Sánchez 1900 - 1942

Born 14.1.1900 in Zaragoza
Died 12.10.1942 in Hartheim

Julián Mur was born on 14 January 1900 in Zaragoza. During the Spanish Civil War he became a captain in the Republican army. Numerous survivors from among the Mauthausen deportees later ... read more

István Bognár 1928 - 1945

Born 29.5.1928 in Budapest
Died 31.1.1945 in Mauthausen

István Bognár's brother was György Bognár, who survived the Holocaust, although also incarcerated in a KZ. Holocaust Museum Los Angeles possesses a postcard written by György to Ist ... read more

Josef Wittmann 1889 - 1940

Born 11.11.1889 in Lappersdorf
Died 26.3.1940 in Mauthausen

Josef Wittmann served in WWI. He had no natural children, but did have three stepchildren with his marriage to Emma Schadewitz Delion: Irene Delion, Maria (Maya) Delion, and Heinz ... 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

Heinz Felix Geiringer 1926 - 1945

Born 12.7.1926 in Wien
Died 26.4.1945 in Ebensee

Son of Erich Geiringer who died in Mauthausen, too, and Elfriede Geiringer who survived Auschwitz and remarried to Otto Frank. Brother Eva Geiringer (married Schloss) who survived ... read more

Jakob Gijs Rubens 1918 - 1941

Born 25.10.1918 in Amsterdam
Died 7.8.1941 in Mauthausen

Jakob Gijs Rubens, who was called Jaap, was the son of Marcus Rubens and Rebecca Rubens-Witstein. The Rubens family were liberal Jewish, not Orthodox, but the Jewish holidays were celebrated. Mr. and ... read more