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Aroldo Signori 1915 - 1945

Born 27.10.1915 in Caldana
Died 27.2.1945 in Ebensee

After emigrating from Italy in flight from Mussolini’s Fascism, Egidio and Guglielma Signori settled in the mining town of Homécourt (department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) with their ... read more

Vladimír Bergauer 1898 - 1942

Born 18.9.1898 in Písek
Died 24.10.1942 in Mauthausen

Vladimír Bergauer was born the son of a pharmacist. He was of Czech nationality and Roman Catholic faith. In 1917 he completed his secondary education at a grammar school in Písek and ... read more

Lucien Bunel 1900 - 1945

Born 29.1.1900 in Barentin
Died 2.6.1945 in Linz

‘Goodbye, Children.’ Lucien Bunel, or Father Jacques as he was know by everybody, was a Carmelite priest and the director of the Petit Collège des Carmes in Avon, near ... read more

Jan Stefan Oderfeld Douglas 1892 - 1944

Born 3.6.1892 in Warszawa
Died 14.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Jan Stefan Douglas-Oderfeld was a Polish lawyer living in Paris who joined the French Resistance. Because he spoke perfect German as well as French he was involved in anti-Nazi activity directed ... 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

Camille Gaignage 1908 - 1945

Born 27.12.1908 in Marilles
Died 12.3.1945 in Mauthausen

My father, Camille Gaignage, was born on 27 December 1908 in 1350 Marilles (Orp-Jauche, Belgium). After finishing compulsory education at the main school in Jodoigne he worked alongside his father, ... read more

Живан Бркић / Živan Brkić 1924 - 1944

Born 12.12.1924 in Kragujevac
Died 20.1.1944 in Gusen

Živan Brkić was born 121.12.1924. in Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was a member of Yugoslavian Royal Army. His roots comes from Serbian Orthodox family, from father Milovan Brkić and mother So ... read more

Бoка Дурмишевић / Baka Durmisević

Born 1909 in Slišane
Died 28.2.1944 in Mauthausen

Baka Durmisevic had four daughters and a son when he was taken from Serbia with his younger brother Rama who was not married then. Thankfully Baka has descendants today. Baka is my great ... read more

Pietro Arnaldo Terzi 1883 - 1944

Born 20.11.1883 in Sarzana
Died 13.11.1944 in Hartheim

Pietro Arnaldo Terzi attended the L. Costa humanist grammar school in La Spezia, became an active member of the Socialist Party of Sarzana, graduated in law and moved to Aulla (Massa), where he ... read more

Ernő Winkler 1894 - 1944

Born 20.1.1894
Died 10.7.1944 in Mauthausen

Ernő Winkler was the chief rabbi of Nagykanizsa, Hungary between 1919 and 1944. He was born in Újpest on 20 January 1894 (instead of 1899). read more