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Kaare Moursund 1895 - 1944

Born 27.3.1895 in Tromsø
Died 4.12.1944 in Melk

Kaare Moursund was born on 27 March 1895 in Tromsø as the fourth child of the lawyer and bank director Carl Anton Moursund and his wife Theodora Giæver. He trained as a ship’s ... read more

Stefan Adam Kruczkowski 1911 - 1941

Born 24.12.1911 in Kraków
Died 17.8.1941 in Gusen

Stefan Adam Kruczkowski was the son of Maria, née Michalski, and Ludwik Kruczkowski. Before the war he graduated from the officer training college of the Polish army with the rank of ... read more

August Kraft 1886 - 1940

Born 13.10.1886 in Kiöwen / Kijewo
Died 1.2.1940 in Mauthausen

August Kraft (or Krafzig) was born on 13 October 1886 in Kiöwen (today’s Kijewo). When exactly or why he came to Vienna is not known. What is certain is that he was already in Vienna by ... read more

Daniel Teller 1928 - 1945

Born 10.7.1928 in Haifa
Died 8.5.1945 in Wels

Daniel was born in Haifa on 10 July 1928. His parents, Resl and Emil, had emigrated to Palestine from Czechoslovakia but returned to Hodonín when Daniel was a year old. The family lived with ... read more

Ján Ollárek 1915 - 1945

Born 21.1.1915 in Záhorská Bystrica
Died 10.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ján Ollárek, born 21 January 1915 in Záhorská Bystrica, Slovakia. By profession a teacher, during World War II an officer of the Slovak Army. For participation in the ... read more

Marianne Nagy 1924 - 1945

Born 22.8.1924 in Budapest
Died 5.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Marianne Nagy was just 20 years old when she died in Mauthausen. She was born on 22 August 1924 in Budapest, the second daughter of a bourgeois Jewish family. Together with her parents, Mihály ... read more

Charles Dainville 1915 - 1945

Born 30.1.1915 in Strépy-Bracquegnies
Died 6.1.1945 in Gusen

REPORT FROM THE MOUVEMENT NATIONAL BELGE (HAINAUT): During the Occupation he developed the MNB (Mouvement National Belge) in the region (of La Louvière) then in the sector then in the zone ... read more

Jan Karczewski 1901 - 1942

Born 16.5.1901 in Montowo
Died 31.10.1942 in Gusen

From the life and work of Jan Karczewski 1901 Born in Montów, in the Lubawa poviat (today the Nowe Miasto poviat) in the working family of Teofil Karczewski, on 16 May, Jan was born, a ... read more

Władysław Szarlej 1915 - 1945

Born 24.8.1915
Died 12.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Władysław Szarlej was the son of Peter Szarlej and Stanislawa Szarlej, brother of Aniela, Bronislawa and Bogdan Szarlej. He was captured in Warsaw, Poland, with his fiance’s family (Jewish), w ... read more

Ernst Kaendler 1882 - 1943

Born 4.8.1882 in Braunschweig
Died 10.1.1943 in Gusen

Ernst August Kaendler, married to Elsbeth Hedwig Martha Nothdurft on 8 April 1911 in Braunschweig, had three sons and one daughter Friedrich, Hans Rudi Kurt, Charlotte Henrietta and ... read more