Hermann Török 1892 - 1944
Born 29.2.1892 in Almașul-Mare / Almașu Mare
Died 6.9.1944 in Melk
If I am to write about the true face of humanity in circumstances as extreme as those in the concentration camp, then I also want to tell of the Török family before indifference and ... read more
Jan Florian 1897 - 1942
Born 24.11.1897 in Brno
Died 7.5.1942 in Mauthausen
Jan Florian attended the First Czech State Grammar School in Brno. After gaining his school leaving certificate he was called up to the Austro-Hungarian army and fought on the Italian front in the ... read more
Alois Lechner 1893 - 1940
Born 2.8.1893 in Innsbruck
Died 19.2.1940 in Mauthausen
Alois Lechner was born on 2 August 1893 in Innsbruck. His father Josef Lechner was a master cobbler, his mother Christiane’s maiden name was Baldauf. The young Alois Lechner began an ... read more
Josep Manuel Blavi 1897 - 1941
Born 7.2.1897 in Barcelona
Died 4.11.1941 in Gusen
Born in Barcelona on 7 February 1897, he was single, working as labourer. He used to live in 1F 1 Alfonso XIII Square in Caldes de Montbui. After passing through France and having been imprisoned, he ... read more
Мина Харламович Клишанец / Mina Charlamowitsch Klischanez 1907 - 1942
Born 14.3.1907 in Kolodniza
Died 24.10.1942 in Gusen
My great-grandfather on my mother’s side, Mina Kharlamovich Klishanets, was born on 14 March 1907 in the Russian Empire in the village of Kolodnitsa (today in the Krupsky district of the Minsk ... read more
Stanisław Proczko 1902 - 1941
Born 29.7.1902
Died 10.9.1941 in Gusen
Stanisław Proczko was born in Lipine on 29 July 1902. He followed a military training and graduated cum laude (with honors) in 1924 as under-officer. He was married to Leokadie. After the coup in ... read more
Jakob Berger 1889 - 1944
Born 18.12.1889 in Kraków
Died 20.8.1944 in Melk
Jakub Berger was my Grandfather. Taken from his family in Berlin in 1938 during the Polenaktion. He ended up in his native town, Kraków, where his wife Franja joined him. Eventually he was ... read more
Лука Яковлевич Шушкович / Luka Jakowlewitsch Schuschkowitsch 1896 - 1945
Born 13.10.1896 in Werebki
Died 27.2.1945 in Gusen
Whenever I think about my grandfather Luka Yakovlevich Shushkevich, I see a spring morning in 1944 in my mind’s eye. It was April, the sun was shining, and my grandmother was hanging the ... read more
Isidre Malla Carrera 1912 - 1942
Born 9.5.1912 in Caldes de Montbui
Died 15.1.1942 in Gusen
Born in Caldes de Montbui on 9 May 1912, the son of Pau Malla Padrós and Dolors Carrera Vilanova, he was single and working as construction worker. He used to live in 9 Doctor Robert Square in ... read more
Филипп Георгиевич Остриков / Filipp Georgiewitsch Ostrikow 1901 - 1942
Born 21.1.1901 in Petropawlowsk
Died 9.5.1942 in Mauthausen
Filipp Georgievich Ostrikov was born on 21 January 1901 in Petropavlovsk into a poor peasant family of four children: three sons and a daughter. His childhood was marked by deprivation. After the ... read more