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Maurycy Warenhaupt 1895 - 1944

Born 16.3.1895 in Okocim
Died 27.12.1944 in Mauthausen

Maurycy was a farmer and the son of David Steinlauf and Mindel, nee Warenhaupt. Richard Mintz, related through marriage   Sources: Birth record - listed as Mojzesz Warenhaupt (1895  ... read more

Joan Ciuraneta Filella 1892 - 1941

Born 3.1.1892 in Palma d'Ebre (La)
Died 2.5.1941 in Gusen

Juan Ciuraneta Filella was born in la Palma d'Ebre (Tarragona, Spain) on 3 January 1892 in a family of farmers. He had two brothers and one sister. At a young age he went to Sabadell where he worked ... read more

Franz Josef Messner 1896 - 1945

Born 8.12.1896 in Brixlegg
Died 23.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Messner became director or the Semperit Works in Vienna in 1937 and after 1938 maintained close links to the resistance group centred around Heinrich Maier and Walter Caldonazzi. From 1942 onwards, ... read more

Maksymilian Rembelski 1910 - 1945

Born 13.10.1910 in Warszawa
Died 11.1.1945 in Ebensee

Maksymilian Rembelski was a son of Janina Rembelska and Franciszek Rembelski. He was a veterinary in Warsaw. Marta Kremky, grandniece read more

Alfred Jones 1914 - 1944

Born 18.8.1914 in Port Talbot
Died 9.11.1944 in Mauthausen

Alfred Jones enlisted at Port Talbot into the Royal Artillery on 19 August 1931 aged 17, he had added a year to his age so he could join up. After training he was posted to the 22/24 Brigade and on ... read more

Михаил Александрович Акимов / Michail Alexandrowitsch Akimow 1920 - 1944

Born 23.2.1920 in Leningrad / Sankt-Peterburg
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Michail Alexandrovich Akimov was born on 23 February 1920 in Leningrad. After completing eight years of general schooling he trained as a cutter in the Factory and Works’ School of Mechanical ... read more

Jan Jebavý 1908 - 1942

Born 10.5.1908 in Brno
Died 1.10.1942 in Mauthausen

Born in the Brno suburbs of Žabovřesky as the only son of Bohumila and Rudolf Jebavý (a close relative of the poet Otokar Březina, 1868–1929), Jan was educated at the classical grammar sc ... 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

Alf Wager 1898 - 1944

Born 28.7.1898 in Oslo
Died 28.12.1944 in Gusen

Alf Wager was born on 28 July 1898 in Kristiania, later Oslo. He was the son of Sina and Herman Wager and had six sisters and a brother. Alf was educated at the Norwegian Technical University, where ... read more

Chaim Ajzyk Ciechanów 1908 - 1945

Born 27.7.1908 in Płońsk
Died 30.3.1945 in Ebensee

Chaim Ajzyk, a tailor, lived during the war in Antwerp (Belgium), was displaced in 1941 for a few months to Stevoort in the province of Limburg. Chaim went on transport XXV (19 May 1944) from the ... read more