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
Leopold Skoupý 1882 - 1941
Born 15.11.1882 in Šebrov
Died 10.12.1941 in Mauthausen
He was mayor of the village Šebrov, a Nazi Resistance fighter in Brno, in the Czech Republic, a farmer and a tradesman. Married to Hedvika Skoupá. They had a daughter, Josefa ... read more
Erwin Cohn 1923 - 1941
Born 9.6.1923 in Hamburg
Died 25.8.1941 in Mauthausen
The Cohn family already lived in the Isestraße before 1933. Max Cohn (1891–1941) had attended the higher vocational school by the Holstentor gate and then studied business. With his first ... read more
Hans Friedemann 1907 - 1943
Born 17.10.1907 in Kastellaun
Died 12.1.1943 in Gusen
‘Hansi’, as our mother called her brother Hans Friedemann, was only mentioned in passing in the family. Things like, ‘he was a kleptomaniac, went round in women’s ... read more
Janusz Szaybo 1904 - 1944
Born 23.5.1904 in Starachowice
Died 9.11.1944 in Mauthausen
Janusz Szaybo came from a technically gifted nobleman's family connected with Starachowice for many years. He was born in 1904. As a sixteen-year-old adolescent he took part in the Polish-Bolshevik ... read more
Ernst Schafer 1898 - 1942
Born 25.3.1898 in Wien
Died 28.9.1942 in Mauthausen
The author Ernst Schafer lived at 14 Bergsteiggasse in Vienna’s Hernals district. As a Jew he was persecuted by the National Socialist regime of terror on racist grounds, was imprisoned at ... read more
Jan Kazimierz Tryuk 1912 - 1943
Born 28.2.1912 in Pabianice
Died 8.7.1943 in Mauthausen
After finishing primary school, Jan Kazimierz Tryuk attended the state ‘Jędrzy Śniadecki’ grammar school in Pabianice, from which he graduated on 7 June 1932, going on to higher education ... read more
Marcus Bloom 1907 - 1944
Born 24.9.1907 in London
Died 6.9.1944 in Mauthausen
Captain Marcus Bloom, radio operator to the PRUNUS circuit of French Section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.). Arrested near Toulouse, France, April 1943. Paul McCue read more
Mario Vanzati 1911 - 1944
Born 27.8.1911 in Nova Milanese
Died 15.5.1944 in Ebensee
Mario Vanzati was born in Nova Milanese on 27 August 1911. He was one of the protagonists of the resistance in this town. The first meetings between local partisans took place in his house on the ... read more
Richard Franke 1906 - 1943
Born 20.1.1906 in Meerane
Died 18.1.1943 in Gusen
When the new Reich Minister of Justice, Otto Georg Thierack, took up his post in late summer 1942, he was determined to reorganise the German justice system. One of the plans he had in mind was not ... read more
