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Avgust Pirjevec 1887 - 1943

Born 28.8.1887 in Gorizia
Died 9.12.1943 in Gusen

See for a detailed (Italian) biography including photos: Avgust Pirjevec (topografiaperlastoria.org) by Sasa Petejan, 2016. Thanks for the reference to Augustin Malle.  read more

Stanisław Makowski 1894 - 1940

Born 17.5.1894 in Podgaje, Sancygniów
Died 24.10.1940 in Gusen

Born in Podgaje, Sancygniów, Poland. Son of Władysław and Bronisława residing in Poland, Gąbin, pl. Piłsudskiego, Masovia Province.Employee of a notary‘s office. Married, five children. H ... read more

Raymond Arend 1922 - 1944

Born 4.12.1922 in Oberkorn
Died 15.6.1944 in Hartheim

Raymond Arend was born on 4 December 1922 in Oberkorn (Luxembourg). He was a labourer and still single. On 25 August 1943 he was taken into protective custody. He was accused of having joined the ... read more

Cichoń Lepiocha 1905 - 1941

Born 30.11.1905 in Jeszkowice
Died 9.12.1941 in Hartheim

Cichoń Lepiocha was a podoficer (sergeant) of Straż Graniczna (border guards) in the Pomorski Inspektorat Okręgowy (Pomeranian District Inspectorate). He and his wife lived in Lubocino. He left be ... read more

Oldřich Pechal 1913 - 1942

Born 12.5.1913 in Osvětimany
Died 22.9.1942 in Mauthausen

On 22 September 1942, First Lieutenant Oldřich Pechal, commander of the ‘Zinc’ parachute unit, was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. On the same day he was hanged in ... read more

Henryk Sławik 1894 - 1944

Born 15.7.1894 in Jastrzębie-Zdró
Died 23.8.1944 in Mauthausen

In October 2013, 69 years after his murder in Mauthausen, the Viennese embassy of the Republic of Poland brought the memorial ceremonies organised in cooperation with the Hungarian embassy in Vienna ... read more

Anton Egge 1896 - 1945

Born 5.3.1896 in Stryn
Died 27.2.1945 in Melk

My grandfather, Anton Egge, was born on 5 March 1896 in Hjelle in Norway. Anton was arrested on 12 January 1942 in Bergen. Initially the National Socialists stuck him in the Bergen kretsfengsel[1] ... read more

Erich Fabian 1898 - 1945

Born 8.9.1898 in Danzig
Died 31.1.1945 in Mauthausen

Erich Fabian, son of Julius Fabian and Hannchen Planter-Fabian. They were sent to Theresienstadt from Berlin on August 27, 1942. Julius died in the camp on November 30, 1942, Hannchen died on January ... read more

Bolesław Mellerowicz 1894 - 1941

Born 23.7.1894 in Żychów
Died 21.9.1941 in Gusen

Bolesław Mellerowicz, Catholic, Polish, well respected lawyer, loving husband and father of two daughters. My Father was born in 1894 in Poland under Russian domination (Poland was partitioned by ... 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