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Sámuel Daszkal 1917 - 1945

Born 17.8.1917 in Sighet / Sighetu Marmației
Died 2.5.1945 in Ebensee

Sámuel was born in Sighet to Abraham and Lea Daszkal. He was married to Judith Welward and worked in a bakery. Ronit Revach, relative read more

Jan Zasada 1897 - 1941

Born 25.9.1897 in Podębice
Died 26.8.1941 in Gusen

My grandfather Jan Zasada was born in Podębice. He lived in Grójec and in Kutno where he was arrested and transferred through Inowrocław to Mauthausen/Gusen. He was left-wing local politician i ... read more

Joan Deu Casanovas 1914 - 1941

Born 27.6.1914 in Caldes de Montbui
Died 22.11.1941 in Gusen

Born in Caldes de Montbui on 27 June 1914, he was son of Prim Deu Altarriba and Mercè Casanovas Pascual. He had three sisters: Anna, Vicenta and Rosa. He was single, working as a farmer and ... read more

Leopold Wolf 1915 - 1945

Born 9.10.1915 in Michalovce
Died 28.1.1945 in Gusen

Leopold was the oldest of five siblings of the Wolf family. He was an excellent pupil, spoke fluently seven languages and gave private lessons to other pupils in his town. All the ... read more

Teofil Galikowski 1898 - 1940

Born 26.7.1898 in Osieczna
Died 16.11.1940 in Gusen

Teofil Galikowski was a Polish railway worker, the son of Jan and Katarzyna, husband to Helena, and father of four children: Gertruda, Gabriela, Jan, and Józef. During the German occupation of ... 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

Jean-Marcel Pilet 1925 - 1945

Born 2.10.1925 in St-Ciers-de-Canesse
Died 20.2.1945 in Melk

 BORN ON 2 OCTOBER 1925 IN ST CIERS DE CANESSE (33) - FRANCE HE IS THE YOUNGEST OF A FAMILY OF THREE BOYS AND TWO GIRLS   ON 2 NOVEMBER 1943, in resistance to the STO (Service ... read more

Константин Алексеевич Алисенок / Konstantin Alexeewitsch Alisenok 1901 - 1944

Born 2.1.1901 in Kemeschowzy
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Konstantin Alexeevich Alisenok was born on 2 January 1901 into a peasant family in the village of Kemeshevtsy near Minsk. His father was Belorussian, his mother Sofia (Zosya), Polish. There were four ... read more

Manuel Sariñena Esparel 1915 - 1941

Born 3.6.1915 in Barcelona
Died 2.9.1941 in Gusen

In recent years – both through our research work and through contact with relatives of victims of the National Socialist regime – we have become witnesses to genuine family dramas of the ... read more

Stanisław Pawlak 1900 - 1941

Born 17.4.1900 in Kamienice
Died 19.8.1941 in Hartheim

Unfortunately, I know little of my grandfather's private life. I was born five years after his death – in 1946. I did not know him, and as a child you do not feel the need to know everything ... read more