Andrea Lorenzetti 1907 - 1945
Born 26.5.1907 in Ancona
Died 17.5.1945 in Gusen
Andreas Lorenzetti was born into a humble family. His father was a sales representative and his mother a housewife. At the age of 16 he graduated as a bookkeeper and immediately went to work in a ... read more
Jan Czyżewski 1884 - 1945
Born 27.8.1884 in Kłonna
Died 16.3.1945 in Ebensee
Jan Czyżewski was born on 27 August 1884[1] in Kłonna, a small village 90 km south of Warsaw. He married Ewa Dombrowska and fathered three children. He worked as a farmer and served as mayor of the v ... read more
Hugo Samkalden 1906 - 1943
Born 18.2.1906 in Idi
Died 15.3.1943 in Mauthausen
Hugo Samkalden was one of the four children of Joseph Samkalden and Debora de Beer. He spent his early years on Sumatra, where he father worked for the Dordtsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Dordtsche Oil ... read more
Miguel Sánchez Medina 1915 - 1942
Born 6.9.1915 in Mengíbar
Died 12.1.1942 in Gusen
He was born on September 6, 1915, in Mengíbar (Jaén, Spain). He was a farmer and single. In Spain, he volunteered for the Republican mixed brigades once the Civil War broke out. After ... read more
Jenő Schlesinger 1893 - 1945
Born 27.3.1893 in Šurany
Died 4.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Jenő Schlesinger was the uncle of my father. His date of birth I have found in the Slovak Archive in Ivánka pri Nitre with a different year, born on 27 March 1893 in Nagysurány ... read more
Sidney Charles Jones 1902 - 1944
Born 25.11.1902 in Paris
Died 6.9.1944 in Mauthausen
Captain S.C. Jones, head of INVENTOR circuit of the French Section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.). Arrested in Paris, November 1944. Paul McCue read more
Wacław Prokop 1896 - 1941
Born 2.8.1896 in Wróblew
Died 27.4.1941 in Gusen
After my grandmother’s death I found a letter from KZ Mauthausen about her father and my great-grandfather Wacław Prokop among family memories. When I was a school girl my grandmother told me ... read more
René Fournel 1922 - 1945
Born 15.6.1922 in Ecully
Died 7.5.1945 in Mauthausen
René Fournel was born in Écully in 1922. He was a painter by trade. He was married to Denise Fournel. On February 22, 1944, his daughter Mireille Fournel was born in Écully. ... read more
Егор Степанович Бирын / Egor Stepanowitsch Biryn 1909 - 1942
Born 3.3.1909 in Serman
Died 16.10.1942 in Gusen
Егор Степанович Бирин / Egor Stepanowitsch Biryn was born in the village Serman, Nikolsky district of the Penza region. He was a soldier and had been missing in October 1941. His wife Matrona Vasilevn ... read more
Alexander Zisha Grosz 1897 - 1945
Born 22.5.1897 in Zemplénagárd
Died 28.4.1945 in Auf dem Todesmarsch nach Gunskirchen
Alexander Zisha Grosz was born on 22 May 1897 in Zemplénagárd, a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary. Alexander was the eldest of three children ... read more
