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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

Vincent Škrabala

Born 3.4.1898 in Moštenica
Died 1945 in Mauthausen

Until 1938 Vincent Škrabala was employed as a labourer at an ironworks in Podbrezová. After this he worked on the construction of the Banská Bystrica–Diviaky railway line. ... read more

Leo Haber 1881 - 1941

Born 21.1.1881 in Leszezille
Died 14.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Josub Leib (Leo) Haber was my maternal grandfather. He was married to Alice nee Jellinek and father of Hilde Judith Haber Frankl and Edith Haber Kallir. He owned a shoe store at ... read more

Dino Francini 1898 - 1945

Born 2.7.1898 in Firenze
Died 17.1.1945 in Gusen

Dino Francini had lost his young wife Bianca in 1929 when she died shortly after giving birth. Their two children, a two and a half year-old boy and a thirteen day-old girl, remained with their ... read more

Jan Tkocz 1886 - 1945

Born 29.8.1886 in Chwałowice
Died 28.2.1945 in Gusen

Jan Tkocz was born on 29 August 1886 in Chwałowice in Poland. He was the head of the heroic Tkocz family whose uncrushable resistance to German occupation during the Second World War is widely ... read more

Александр Кузьмич Яропольский / Alexandr Kusmitsch Jaropolskij 1899 - 1945

Born 9.6.1899 in Moskwa
Died 1.3.1945 in Gusen

My grandfather Alexandr Kuzmich Yaropolsky was born on 9 June (by the old Russian calendar) / 22 June (by the new Russian calendar) 1899. The family lived in Moscow near to Krasnaya Presnya Street in ... read more

Ivan Senica 1908 - 1945

Born 25.5.1908 in Motnik
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ivan Senica was born on 25 May 1908 in the small flourishing city of Motnik located along the busy road between Carniola and Styria, Slovenian lands previously belonging to the Austro-Hungarian ... read more

Josep Miret Musté 1907 - 1944

Born 14.4.1907 in Barcelona
Died 17.11.1944 in Wien

 Josep Miret Musté was born on 14 April 1907 to a working-class family in Barcelona, which had moved from the rural district of Tarragona to the Catalan capital. He learned the art of ... read more

Лазар Сладоје / Lazar Sladoje 1900 - 1945

Born 14.4.1900 in Obalj
Died 15.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Lazar Sladoje was born in 1906 in Obalj to Djuro and Gospava Sladoje. He had three brothers and two sisters. He lived in Obalj for his whole life. After being caught in a Serb resistance group in ... read more

Walter Meyer 1908 - 1940

Born 8.10.1908 in Berlin
Died 1.4.1940 in Mauthausen

Walter Meyer grew up in Berlin. The documents relating to his last trial in January 1938, as well as records from the Hereditary Health Court proceedings in 1939, are only able to provide basic ... read more