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Zbigniew Kowalski 1922 - 1940

Born 9.4.1922 in Brzeszcze
Died 9.8.1940 in Gusen

In the period leading up to September 1939, Zbigniew Kowalski was a pupil of the grammar school in Kęty, which was in present-day Kościuszko Street. Before his arrest he worked, like his father K ... read more

Alojzy Tkocz 1910 - 1945

Born 12.8.1910 in Chwałowice
Died 23.4.1945 in Gusen

Alojzy was born on 12 August 1910 in Chwałowice in Poland. He was the son of Jan Tkocz. Alojzy was a member of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association. He took part in the September Campaign ... read more

Terese Goldstein

Born 11.1.1908 in Jerusalem / Jeruschalajim
Died 1945 in Mauthausen

Terese Goldstein was born as Dina Reisel Kohn, the eldest daughter of Shmuel Kohn and Hinda, nee Kohn. Her father Shmuel was born in about 1885 in the village of Vásárút which ... read more

Augustyn Łukosz 1884 - 1940

Born 17.8.1884 in Stonava / Stonawa
Died 27.10.1940 in Gusen

Augustyn Łukosz was born in Stonava, in the present-day Czech Republic. He became a railwayman, lived in Łąka and held Polish citizenship. For three years he attended the Polish primary school in St ... read more

Marcin Wasyluk 1902 - 1944

Born 7.10.1902 in Mokrany Stare
Died 25.12.1944 in Melk

Marcin Wasyluk was the father of Marcin Wasyluk, a prisoner at the Mauthausen camp, who died on 17 June 1945.Ryszard Wasyluk, nephew (son of his brother) read more

Melchor Landeta Tutor 1909 - 1943

Born 6.1.1909 in Madrid
Died 15.2.1943 in Gusen

My grandmother used to say that her baby brother Angel (he was Angel Melchor, everybody called him Angel. Maybe that was too good of a name for the fascists to call him?) was the least political of ... read more

Feliks Przybylak 1898 - 1941

Born 12.10.1898
Died 25.9.1941 in Gusen

Feliks Przybylak, the son of Franciszek and Ludwika (née Sobczyk), was born in Wojciechowo near Jaraczewo (currently Jarocin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship). He was raised in a farming ... read more

Peter Böhmer 1907 - 1940

Born 31.12.1907 in Eschweiler
Died 24.7.1940 in Mauthausen

Peter Böhmer was the son of Laurenz Böhmer (factory worker) and his wife Maria Magdalena Böhmer nee Lehnen. Lothar Böling, Bertram-Wieland-Archiv für die Geschichte der ... read more

Hirsch Goldman 1907 - 1945

Born 9.9.1907 in Nowy Targ
Died 20.4.1945 in Ebensee

Hirsch Goldman was born in Nowy Targ on 9 September 1907 to Itzik Chaim Goldman and Bracha-Loti Goldman, nee Feureisen. He had four sisters (Anna, Sarah, Rosa, and Olga) and two brothers (Aron and ... read more

Emil Schubert 1887 - 1945

Born 26.8.1887
Died 19.2.1945 in Melk

Member of the SPD and Reichsbanner; political prisoner from 1933 to-1945. Wife: Martha Franke. Childrend: Erich, Herbert, Erika. Citizenship and WW1 military pension and freedoms revoked by ... read more