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Emil Goldmann 1872 - 1942

Born 29.11.1872 in Vítkovice
Died 1.8.1942 in Mauthausen

Emil Goldmann was a Goldmann again only under the Nazis and because his name was not obviously ‘Jewish’ enough (Executive Order on the Law on the Alteration of Family and Personal Names ... read more

Wacław Ołdakowski 1896 - 1945

Born 10.11.1896
Died 25.1.1945 in Gusen

Wacław Ołdakowski, son of Tadeusz and Marianna, was born in Krzeczkowo Mianowskie on 10 November 1896. He went to a school in Rosochate Kościelne. Prior to the First World War he attended a Varsovian ... read more

Edouard Lemire 1910 - 1943

Born 15.10.1910 in Hénin-Lietard
Died 17.1.1943 in Gusen

My grandfather Lemire Edouard was French. He got married in February 1931 to Angèle Delmarre been born on 17 January 1909, of their union was born my father Gérard on 30 January 1936. ... read more

Василий Андреевич Игумнов / Wasilij Andreewitsch Igumnow 1912 - 1944

Born 1.1.1912 in Pensa
Died 20.5.1944 in Gusen

Vasily Andreevich Igumnov was born in the village of Chekashovi Polyanki in the Insarsky district of Penza oblast into the peasant family of coppersmith and master boilermaker Andrei Petrovich ... read more

Γεώργιος Τσουράκης / Georgios Tsourakis 1893 - 1944

Born 8.10.1893 in Livadas
Died 7.10.1944 in Hartheim

Georgios Tsourakis (also referred to as Tsurakis) was born in 1893 in Livadas, Chania, on the Greek island of Crete. He was a farmer and a cafeteria owner and had six children (four boys and two ... read more

Luka Greget 1915 - 1944

Born 12.1.1915 in Komiža
Died 5.9.1944 in Hartheim

Luka Greget was a fisherman from Komiža on the island of Vis (Dalmatia). While serving as a soldier of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia he was taken prisoner by the Germans at the start of the Second World ... read more

Ибраш Крутаевич Кунтаев / Ibrasch Krutaewitsch Kuntaew 1907 - 1944

Born 25.1.1907 in Krutaya
Died 7.7.1944 in Hartheim

  Ibrash Kuntaev was born on 25 January 1907 in Krutaya, a village in the Kamensk region of West Kazakhstan. He had two brothers. However, his parents and the middle of the three brothers died ... read more

Karel Welzel 1901 - 1941

Born 10.4.1901 in Náchod
Died 17.12.1941 in Mauthausen

Together with his younger brother František (born 1903), Karel Welzel was co-owner of the shipping company Sebastian Welzel und Söhne. They owned a fuel depot next to the main station in ... read more

Иван Алексеевич Мишин / Iwan Alexeewitsch Mischin

Born 1912 in Nowyj Krjaschim / Machalino
Died 15.11.1942 in Gusen

My grandfather Michail Grigorevich Matvienko, a sergeant in the 117th Rifle Division, was reported missing in action near Gomel in mid-September 1941. For some years now, I have been trying, without ... read more

Moritz Schaap 1895 - 1941

Born 18.12.1895 in Noordhorn
Died 20.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Moritz Schaap was survived by his wife, Erna Oppenheimer Schaap and son, Klaus Schaap when they fled shortly after Moritz was picked up by the Nazis. They were saved by two different families during ... read more