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Paweł Zygowski 1912 - 1940

Born 17.6.1912 in Danzig / Gdańsk
Died 8.12.1940 in Mauthausen

Pawel (Paul) Zygowski was my great-grandfather's uncle. The Zygowski family lived in Langfuhr, Danzig as well as the surrounding areas from as far back as the 1880s. The attached card sent to Paul's ... read more

Alf Wager 1898 - 1944

Born 28.7.1898 in Oslo
Died 28.12.1944 in Gusen

Alf Wager was born on 28 July 1898 in Kristiania, later Oslo. He was the son of Sina and Herman Wager and had six sisters and a brother. Alf was educated at the Norwegian Technical University, where ... read more

Павел Михайлович Ковела / Pawel Michailowitsch Kowela 1902 - 1945

Born 29.6.1902 in Wolka Łosiniecka
Died .5.1945 in Mauthausen

Pavel Michailovich Kovela was born on 29 June 1902 in the village of Wolka Łosiniecka in the municipality of Paseki in the Tomaszów district of the voivodeship of Lublin (Poland) into a poor ... read more

Willy Loich 1897 - 1943

Born 30.11.1897 in Gütersloh
Died 1.2.1943 in Gusen

The bank clerk Wilhelm Theodor Heinrich (known as Willy) Loich was born on 30 November 1897 in Gütersloh to Wilhelm Eduard Julius Loich, a barber, and Katharina Dorothea Köker. He went to ... read more

Ricardo López López 1921 - 1942

Born 12.5.1921 in Saviñao (O) - Beleigán
Died 11.9.1942 in Mauthausen

Born on 12 May 1921, he was the youngest man deported to a Nazi camp from Caldes de Montbui. He was the son of Ricardo López López and Pilar López López. Originally from ... read more

Alfred Toczek 1919 - 1941

Born 6.8.1919 in Köln
Died 16.9.1941 in Mauthausen

Alfred Toczek was born on 6 August 1919 in Cologne and died in Mauthausen on 16 September 1941.  Alfred's younger brothers were identical twins Hans and Fritz (later John and Fred) Toczek. They ... read more

Franc Galičič 1914 - 1943

Born 10.10.1914 in Hotovlja
Died 6.4.1943 in Gusen

Franc Galičič, born October 10 1914, was the third child and the first son of Janez Galičič, born October 15 1884. In 1910, Janez took over his father’s farm in Hotovlja near Poljane, a village ... read more

Adolf Rosenberger 1900 - 1945

Born 24.10.1900 in Wien
Died 31.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Adolf Rosenberger was born on 24 October 1900 as the child of a working-class Jewish family in Vienna’s Brigittenau district. He grew up in Bäuerlegasse to the north of the Augarten park ... read more

Marie Goedert 1900 - 1945

Born 25.9.1900 in Verleumont
Died 11.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Marie Louise Goedert (née Duboutay) was born on 25 September 1900 in Verleumont (Belgium). She lived with her husband Willy Goedert and their two sons in Luxembourg. In December 1942 she was ... 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