Alexander Katan 1899 - 1943
Born 18.11.1899 in Rotterdam
Died 27.1.1943 in Gusen
Alexander Katan was born and lived in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He was the son of Israel Marcus Katan and Celli van Gelderen. He worked in several roles as a kantoorbediende (clerk), including that of ... read more
Jozef Kura 1900 - 1940
Born 10.7.1900 in Biadoline
Died 10.10.1940 in Gusen
Jozef Kura was the son of Wojciech and Agata Kura (nee Bodzioch). His prisoners' number at the Dachau concentration camp was 5899. He was a teacher near Wieluń (near ... read more
David Levy Kestenbaum
Born 1926 in Ťačovo / Tyachiv
Died 1945 in Gunskirchen
Kestenbaum David Levy, the youngest of eleven siblings born to Josephine Pearl Gombo and Moshe Joshua Kestenbaum, was about 19 years old when he was murdered in Gunskirchen, one of the sub-camps of ... read more
Julius Baumann 1898 - 1942
Born 13.1.1898 in Stuttgart
Died 1.10.1942 in Mauthausen
A Jewish Sportsman from Stuttgart Julius Baumann was born on 20 January 1898 in Stuttgart, the son of Jewish husband and wife Heinrich Baumann and Fernanda, née Oppenheimer. He was a ... read more
Jozef Schoof 1905 - 1943
Born 11.9.1905 in Antwerpen
Died 21.1.1943 in Gusen
Josephus Petrus Schoof, born Antwerpen 11/09/1905, living Merksem Gagelveldenstraat 47, member of the Patriottische Milities, prisoner in Auffanglager Breendonk August - November 1942. Frank ... read more
Marian Rusek 1902 - 1945
Born 23.11.1902 in Kraków
Died 24.4.1945 in Mauthausen
My grandfather, father of my dad Julian Rusek, was born in Krakow and lived in the district of Wola Duchacka. He worked at a Cable Factory in Krakow doing clerical work (not sure what position he ... 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
Giuseppe Griva 1905 - 1945
Born 30.8.1905 in Poirino
Died 13.3.1945 in Gusen
Giuseppe Griva was the eldest of six siblings. He had always refused to join the Fascist Party. Finding no work in Italy, in 1930 he emigrated to France, working there first as a bricklayer and then ... read more
Jakob Gijs Rubens 1918 - 1941
Born 25.10.1918 in Amsterdam
Died 7.8.1941 in Mauthausen
Jakob Gijs Rubens, who was called Jaap, was the son of Marcus Rubens and Rebecca Rubens-Witstein. The Rubens family were liberal Jewish, not Orthodox, but the Jewish holidays were celebrated. Mr. and ... read more
Richard Franke 1906 - 1943
Born 20.1.1906 in Meerane
Died 18.1.1943 in Gusen
When the new Reich Minister of Justice, Otto Georg Thierack, took up his post in late summer 1942, he was determined to reorganise the German justice system. One of the plans he had in mind was not ... read more


