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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

Cesare Spaviero 1921 - 1945

Born 11.11.1921 in Carpi
Died 12.3.1945 in Mauthausen

  Cesarino Mario Spaviero was born in Carpi, a small hamlet in Villabartolomea (Verona) on 11 November 1921. He lived there with his family until 1929, when they moved to Pontecurone. His ... read more

Antonio Rigoni 1883 - 1945

Born 4.2.1883 in Asiago
Died 6.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Antonio Domenico Rigoni was a priest. Fabrizio Scabio read more

August Kahrmann 1900 - 1940

Born 19.5.1900 in Plankstadt
Died 3.2.1940 in Mauthausen

August Kahrmann was born on 19 May 1900 in Plankstadt to the ‘unmarried cigar worker Anna Gund’. That year she married the cigar-maker Christian August Kahrmann from Schwetzingen, who ... read more

Josef Drahotský 1895 - 1941

Born 6.6.1895 in Všestary
Died 13.12.1941 in Mauthausen

Josef Drahotský was born on 6 June 1895 in the village of Vsestary near Hradec Králové in what is now the Czech Republic. His parents were farmers. He wanted to become a teacher ... read more

Otto Michael Popper 1915 - 1944

Born 6.10.1915 in Wien
Died 25.10.1944 in Linz

Otto Michael Popper was born on 6 October 1915 in Vienna, Austria. He was an Austrian citizen and the son of Dr. Michael (Ottokar) Popper (1859–1942, central manager of the Clam-Gallas estate) ... read more

Jan Zasada 1897 - 1941

Born 25.9.1897 in Podębice
Died 26.8.1941 in Gusen

My grandfather Jan Zasada was born in Podębice. He lived in Grójec and in Kutno where he was arrested and transferred through Inowrocław to Mauthausen/Gusen. He was left-wing local politician i ... read more

Pietro Bastanzetti 1901 - 1944

Born 19.8.1901 in Vittorio Veneto
Died 2.6.1944 in Gusen

In 1902 Pietro Bastanzetti and his family arrived in Milan. At the age of twelve, after five years of primary schooling, he went out to work. He attended evening school and gained his secondary ... read more

Szczepan Róziewicz 1917 - 1945

Born 7.12.1917 in Łychów
Died 3.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Szczepan Róziewicz was captured in Warsaw in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. He and my grandmother, along with my father and their neighbors, were taken out of this tenement house from their ... 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