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Wiktor Potarzycki 1889 - 1940

Born 9.9.1889 in Gordów
Died 12.8.1940 in Gusen

Wiktor Potarzycki was a teacher and was married to Franciszka Potarzycka, They had two daughters, Maria and Halina. Wiktor was a Polish officer and fought in First World War. He was sergeant. After ... read more

Stanisław Renz 1894 - 1942

Born 24.4.1894 in Bednary
Died 26.12.1942 in Gusen

Stanisław Renz was born on 24 April 1894 in Bednary (Poznań poviat), son of Michał and mother Józefina, née Firlejkowa. He graduated from the elementary school in Wronczyn. Until the a ... read more

Raymond Arend 1922 - 1944

Born 4.12.1922 in Oberkorn
Died 15.6.1944 in Hartheim

Raymond Arend was born on 4 December 1922 in Oberkorn (Luxembourg). He was a labourer and still single. On 25 August 1943 he was taken into protective custody. He was accused of having joined the ... read more

Antoni Boroński 1908 - 1942

Born 10.6.1908 in Pogorzela
Died 11.6.1942 in Gusen

My grandfather was 34 years old when he died in concentration camp in Mauthausen/Gusen on 11 June 1942. He had left a wife Cecylia and five children. My mother Jadwiga was the youngest of the ... read more

Jan Sztwiertnia 1911 - 1940

Born 1.6.1911 in Ustroń
Died 29.8.1940 in Gusen

Born on 1 June 1911 in Ustroń in Cieszyn Silesia, Jan Sztwiertnia studied from 1925-30 at the teacher training college in Cieszyn. Under the direction of Karol Hławiczka and Alfred Nohel, he learned t ... read more

Marcin Wasyluk 1902 - 1944

Born 7.10.1902 in Mokrany Stare
Died 25.12.1944 in Melk

Marcin Wasyluk was the father of Marcin Wasyluk, a prisoner at the Mauthausen camp, who died on 17 June 1945.Ryszard Wasyluk, nephew (son of his brother) read more

Bronisław Sobota 1922 - 1940

Born 2.9.1922 in Kempen
Died 16.11.1940 in Gusen

Born as the first son of Konrad Sobota and Wladyslawa Sobota (née Adamski). Older brother of Henryk (Henry/Heinrich), Wladyslaw, Miroslawa, and Mieczyslaw. Had no wife or children. Sandra ... read more

Thomas Trevor 1890 - 1944

Born 26.12.1890 in Wrexham
Died 13.11.1944 in Mauthausen

Thomas was born in Wrexham, Wales, to John and Eliza in 1890. After serving in France during the First World war he met and married his wife Adele. They had a daughter called Lottie and settled in ... read more

Henryk Sławik 1894 - 1944

Born 15.7.1894 in Jastrzębie-Zdró
Died 23.8.1944 in Mauthausen

In October 2013, 69 years after his murder in Mauthausen, the Viennese embassy of the Republic of Poland brought the memorial ceremonies organised in cooperation with the Hungarian embassy in Vienna ... read more

Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen 1903 - 1945

Born 7.9.1903 in Flekkefjord
Died 7.1.1945 in Melk

Arne Ingebrethsen was born in 1903 in Flekkefjord. With a newspaper editor for a father and a typographer for a mother, it was only natural that he follow in his parents’ professional ... read more