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Alojzy Tkocz 1910 - 1945

Born 12.8.1910 in Chwałowice
Died 23.4.1945 in Gusen

Alojzy was born on 12 August 1910 in Chwałowice in Poland. He was the son of Jan Tkocz. Alojzy was a member of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association. He took part in the September Campaign ... read more

Maksymilian Rembelski 1910 - 1945

Born 13.10.1910 in Warszawa
Died 11.1.1945 in Ebensee

Maksymilian Rembelski was a son of Janina Rembelska and Franciszek Rembelski. He was a veterinary in Warsaw. Marta Kremky, grandniece read more

Marcel Lacroix 1926 - 1945

Born 6.7.1926 in Pont-à-Mousson
Died 30.3.1945 in Gusen

Marcel Lacroix, born in 1926, and Stéphane Lewandowski, born in 1925, are among the few Frenchmen to be deported to Mauthausen only after they had experienced the heady feeling of having ... read more

Walter Benjamin Blau 1918 - 1941

Born 2.1.1918 in Hamburg
Died 3.7.1941 in Mauthausen

Father: Armin Blau  Mother: Ella Blau-Cohen After the eviction, Walter lived at M. Angelostraat 34, Amsterdam.  He was transported from Schoorl to Mauthausen on 11.06.1941.  Both ... read more

Bohumil Vařílek 1900 - 1942

Born 4.10.1900 in Svatoslav
Died 25.4.1942 in Mauthausen

During the First World War, Bohumil Varílek was enlisted into the Austro-Hungarian army at the age of 17 and was injured on the Italian front. After his return from the war, he finished his ... read more

Jean Marie Dael 1909 - 1945

Born 1.1.1909 in Venlo
Died 9.3.1945 in Mauthausen

The brothers Jan and Leo Dael came from a large Catholic family. Leopold Dael Sen. and his wife Helena Maassen had nine children: four boys and five girls. Leopold was an energetic and successful ... read more

Георгий Дмитриевич Зобнин / Georgij Dmitriewitsch Sobnin

Born 7.11.1917 in Noschul
Died 1945 in Mauthausen

In the night of 7 April 1944, aeroplane PS-84 of the 101st Fighter Aviation Regiment did not return from a mission – it was set alight by a German fighter plane in the area around Rakvere. ... read more

Jan Chyżewski 1900 - 1940

Born 19.10.1900 in Włocławek
Died 26.11.1940 in Gusen

Jan Czyżewski was born on 27 August 1884[1] in Kłonna, a small village 90 km south of Warsaw. He married Ewa Dombrowska and fathered three children. He worked as a farmer and served as mayor of the v ... read more

Миодраг Ивковић / Miodrag Ivković 1917 - 1944

Born 30.10.1917 in Trnava
Died 15.6.1944 in Hartheim

Miodrag Ivković was born on 30 October 1917 in Trnava. Already a well-known Communist before the war, at the end of May 1941 he was added to the wanted list of the special police force for his ... read more

Marian Reich 1892 - 1941

Born 27.5.1892 in Poznań
Died 11.2.1941 in Gusen

Marian Tomasz Reich was the son of Kordula Jadwiga Mizgalska and Carl Wilhelm Reich. He was of Polish and German decent. He graduated from a machine building school in Poznań and worked most of his ... read more