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Antonio Rigoni 1883 - 1945

Born 4.2.1883 in Asiago
Died 6.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Antonio Domenico Rigoni was a priest.   Fabrizio Scabio (2018)   ***   Priest of the hamlet of Posta di Lastebasse (Vicenza). Son of Claudiano and Maria Lobbia. Originally from ... read more

Ephim Chapiro 1897 - 1945

Born 16.8.1897 in Minsk
Died 17.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Ephim Chapiro was a French Jew married to Rosa Gingold. He had one child, Yvette Chapiro. He hid out in Lyon during the war, but was ultimately caught and arrested on August 7, 1944. He was sent ... read more

Amedeo Scuratti 1899 - 1945

Born 19.9.1899 in Nova Milanese
Died 19.2.1945 in Gusen

Amedeo Scuratti was born on 19 September 1899 in Nova Milanese where he lived in Via S. Sebastiano 1. He was married to Silvia Castelletti and they had three children. In 1935 Amedeo was employed as ... read more

Franz Josef Messner 1896 - 1945

Born 8.12.1896 in Brixlegg
Died 23.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Messner became director or the Semperit Works in Vienna in 1937 and after 1938 maintained close links to the resistance group centred around Heinrich Maier and Walter Caldonazzi. From 1942 onwards, ... read more

Albert van der Linden 1902 - 1942

Born 1.12.1902 in Amsterdam
Died 22.10.1942 in Mauthausen

His mother Marianne Eisendrath, his sisters Sophie van der Linden, Frederika van der Linden, Hendrina van der Linden, and brother Joseph van der Linden's lives were all taken in Sobibor between 1942 ... read more

Antonín Prokeš 1889 - 1941

Born 12.6.1889 in Praha
Died 21.12.1941 in Mauthausen

Antonín Prokeš was an agricultural economist and sociologist of rural regions. He was born into a metalworker’s family. He had two sisters and one brother and married ... read more

Józef Radzikowski 1896 - 1941

Born 24.3.1896 in Ostrołęka
Died 1.4.1941 in Gusen

Józef Radzikowski was born in Ostrołęka (then Russia, nowadays east-north Poland) in a catholic middle-class family of local businessmen. Józef’s father had a restaurant, his g ... read more

Hermann Häfker 1873 - 1939

Born 3.6.1873 in Bremen
Died 27.12.1939 in Mauthausen

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Paul Wallis 1900 - 1940

Born 15.11.1900 in Wien
Died 11.3.1940 in Mauthausen

Paul Wallis was born on 15 November 1900 in Vienna.[1] Although a Catholic, his family background meant the Nazis classified him as Jew. A single man, he lived in Innsbruck and was a member of the ... read more

Quinto Perona 1893 - 1944

Born 9.6.1893 in Biella
Died 19.7.1944 in Gusen

In stark defiance of the regime, he experienced multiple detentions in Turin, where he lived with his family. His strong opposition to the fascist rule ultimately resulted in his deportation at the ... read more