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Stane Levec 1927 - 1945

Born 16.12.1927 in Ljubljana
Died 7.3.1945 in Gusen

Stane Levec was a radio operator in a Ljubljana post office. At the end of January 1944 he was arrested by the Slovene Home Guard. The connection between his arrest and the then military situation ... read more

Fernando Polo Tapias 1914 - 1941

Born 11.6.1914 in Barcelona
Died 16.11.1941 in Gusen

Fernando Polo Tapias and his father Domenech were anarchists. His father died in a Barcelona prison, beaten up. However, when the war broke out in Spain in 1936, Fernando was doing his military ... read more

Jean Rozinoer 1920 - 1943

Born 27.6.1920 in Paris
Died 29.6.1943 in Mauthausen

As a young medical student, still single, during the Second World War Jean Rozinoer lived with his parents at 280 rue Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. On 11 January 1940 he took part in ... 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

Vojtech Ábel 1911 - 1945

Born 9.2.1911 in Piešťany
Died 10.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Vojtech Ábel studied at the College of Mechanical Engineering in Košice from 1929 to 1933. After completing training at the school for reserve officers in the motorised units, he was ... read more

Karl Rupitsch 1910 - 1944

Born 17.11.1910 in Mühlbach
Died 28.10.1944 in Mauthausen

Karl was the youngest of seven siblings and became a widower and father of four early on. In 1936 he sold his mountain farm in Mühlbach and went to work in a sawmill in Goldegg. Because of a ... read more

Milivoj Kljaković-Gašpić 1927 - 1944

Born 8.8.1927 in Solin
Died 25.8.1944 in Hartheim

Milivoj Kljaković-Gašpić (Father Marin) was born in 1927 in Solin near Split (Dalamatia). While still at school he joined the partisan movement in September 1943 at the age of 16. As early as N ... read more

Enrico Bracesco 1910 - 1944

Born 10.4.1910 in Monza
Died 16.8.1944 in Hartheim

Enrico, the son of Francesco Bracesco and Maria Teruzzi, was the youngest of three brothers and sisters. His family was unquestionably anti-Fascist. His parents ran a restaurant, which became a cell ... read more

Ervin Jakab 1923 - 1945

Born 17.2.1923 in Targu Mures
Died 28.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Ervin Jakab was born on February 17, 1923, in Targu Mures, Transylvania, Hungary, currently under the administration of Romania, father: Adolf Jakab, mother: Laura Jakab. He studied at the Jewish ... read more

Daniel Teller 1928 - 1945

Born 10.7.1928 in Haifa
Died 8.5.1945 in Wels

Daniel was born in Haifa on 10 July 1928. His parents, Resl and Emil, had emigrated to Palestine from Czechoslovakia but returned to Hodonín when Daniel was a year old. The family lived with ... read more