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Abraham Morpurgo 1901 - 1945

Born 27.3.1901 in Amsterdam
Died 1.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Abraham Morpurgo was my grandfather. The family lived a comfortable life in Amsterdam before the war. My grandfather was the owner of a retail and wholesale business dealing in household goods. The ... read more

Ángel Ramírez Muñoz 1915 - 1941

Born 15.9.1915 in Montilla
Died 21.11.1941 in Gusen

He was born on 16/09/1915 in Montilla (Cordoba, Spain). He was a bricklayer and was single. As a member of the Republican army he fled to France to escape Franco's advance. There he must have been ... 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

Алексей Михайлович Абрашкин / Alexej Michajlowitsch Abraschkin

Born 1917 in Bednodemjanowsk / Spassk
Died 3.4.1942 in Mauthausen

On 25 May 1941 he was called to the military enlistment office of the city Bednodemyanovsk Penza region and became a soldier of the 55th Light Artillery Regiment 61 Infantry Division. On 18 August ... read more

Renato Pedrini 1913 - 1945

Born 22.11.1913 in Torino
Died 9.4.1945 in Mauthausen

A radiologist by profession, Renato Pedrini moved from Turin to La Spezia, where his wife lived, and bought a photographic supplies shop in the city’s Migliarina district, going on to become a ... read more

Józef Noga 1883 - 1940

Born 10.11.1883 in Dobrzec W (Kalisz)
Died 6.9.1940 in Gusen

Sadly I have to say that I don’t have any pictures of my grandfather, Józef Noga. I can only offer this small amount of information: Józef Noga, born in Dobrzec on 10 November ... read more

Artur Triquell Font 1903 - 1942

Born 3.7.1903 in Maials
Died 25.6.1942 in Mauthausen

He was born on 3 July 1907 in Maials (El Segrià), son of Dolors Font Miret and unknown father’s name. He was blacksmith, having one sister, Rosa, and married to Eulàlia Casas ... read more

Luigi Briani 1900 - 1944

Born 24.1.1900 in Desio
Died 17.10.1944 in Gusen

Crane operator at the Breda works. Picked up from his apartment by the Fascist militia on 12 April 1944 for participating in the Breda strikes and subsequently taken to the following jails and ... read more

Kurt Holger Schmahl 1910 - 1945

Born 18.1.1910 in Kopenhagen
Died 8.4.1945 in Mauthausen

In June 1933 the 23-year-old Kurt Holger Schmahl, a resident of 57 Isestraße in Hamburg, wrote to the president of the Lower Elbe State Financial Authority requesting that 35,000 Reichsmarks ... read more

Rafael Torres Sicilia 1919 - 1941

Born 3.2.1919 in Córdoba
Died 19.12.1941 in Gusen

Rafael was from Córdoba. When he died in the concentration camp he was 22. As a prisoner, he was transferred to Belfort, Front-Stalag 140, and then to the German camp, Stalag XI.B, ... read more