Antoni Ruczko 1906 - 1941
Born 10.6.1906 in Suwałki
Died 19.8.1941 in Hartheim
Antoni Ruczko lived in the small city of Sejny in Poland. He worked as a shoemaker. He had a wife, Anastasia, and two children – son Zdzisław and daughter Stanisława. He was arrested b ... read more
Emil Kumhala 1913 - 1941
Born 26.7.1913 in Dollnstein / Dollstein
Died 22.12.1941 in Mauthausen
My grandfather Emil Kumhala lived in Brno. He had a child and a wife. He was not Jewish. He had a grocery store and sold food to everybody including Jews. That’s why they took him to ... read more
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
Janusz Wieluński 1924 - 1945
Born 2.4.1924 in Warszawa
Died 6.3.1945 in Mauthausen
Janusz Wieluński was born on 2 April 1924 in Warsaw. In 1944 he finished the State School of Civil and Water Engineering with the water engineering specialization (Staatliche Fachschule für ... read more
Pasqual Gimeno Cervera 1894 - 1941
Born 29.4.1894 in Barcelona
Died 2.11.1941 in Gusen
Born in Barcelona on 29 April 1894, the son of Pasqual Gimeno and Isabel Cervera, he lived in 23 Sant Domènec in Caldes de Montbui and he had four siblings: Isabel, Carme, Maria and Josep. He ... read more
Bruno Sbriz 1923 - 1945
Born 17.9.1923 in San Vito al Tagliamento
Died 6.3.1945 in Mauthausen
Bruno Sbriz was enlisted in the Granatieri di Sardegna’s Regiment. After 8 September, he joined the partisan XIV Brigata Osoppo Friuli; on 6 January 1945, Bruno was arrested by the Germans at ... read more
Marian Wiewiórkowski 1910 - 1941
Born 7.8.1910 in Opatówek
Died 6.4.1941 in Gusen
From 1937 my grandfather was the postmaster in Opatówek near Kalisz. He was imprisoned in Opatówek and in Kalisz, then deported to the Dachau concentration camp and subsequently to the ... 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
Деспот Опарушић / Despot Oparušić 1889 - 1943
Born 9.8.1889 in Donji Petrovci
Died 15.4.1943 in Gusen
At the time of his deportation to Mauthausen in 1943, Despot Oparušić was the president of the village of Donji Petrovci in Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He had been in this position for ... read more
Józef Augustyniak 1905 - 1940
Born 2.1.1905 in Nieszawa
Died 26.10.1940 in Gusen
Józef Augustyniak, born in Nieszawa (Kuyavia region, Greater Poland Voivodeship) in 1905, was a Polish teacher, educator and regional activist in Wola ... read more