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Szczepan Róziewicz 1917 - 1945

Born 7.12.1917 in Łychów
Died 3.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Szczepan Róziewicz was captured in Warsaw in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. He and my grandmother, along with my father and their neighbors, were taken out of this tenement house from their ... read more

Спасоје Тепавчевић / Spasoje Tepavčević 1901 - 1944

Born 29.5.1901 in Kalinovik
Died 26.7.1944 in Hartheim

Occupation: Electrician, worked on telephone lines. Petar Bukarica, great grandson read more

Alojz Ivanc 1912 - 1941

Born 21.4.1912 in Gorica
Died 23.10.1941 in Gusen

It may seem unbelievable but from the documents and testimonies it is clear that the first Slovenes in the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps were Spanish Republican fighters of Slovenian ... read more

Josef Paul Mikulski 1886 - 1940

Born 7.1.1886 in Gleiwitz / Gliwice
Died 7.2.1940 in Mauthausen

Josef Paul Mikulski was born on 7 January 1886 in Gliwice. He worked there for the metal industry. On 26 July 1910 he married Johanna Olbrich. They lived in Gliwice. The marriage produced five ... read more

Herbert Julius Pollak 1917 - 1941

Born 17.4.1917 in Wien
Died 17.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Herbert Julius Pollak was the son of a couple from Prague, authorized officer (‘Prokurist’) Dr. Fritz Pollak (1890-1942, official at the car manufacturer Škoda) and his wife Ella ... read more

Harry Hijman Tels 1897 - 1942

Born 29.6.1897 in Rotterdam
Died 10.7.1942 in Mauthausen

Harry Hijman Tels, was born in Rotterdam on 29 June 1897. According to family tradition Harry studied law and after his father died in 1924, he took over the law firm in Rotterdam. He married Lucie ... 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

Jacob Noah Finkelstein 1898 - 1945

Born 19.4.1898
Died 8.5.1945 in Wels

For more than 63 years after his liberation from Mauthausen, my father, Sol Finkelstein, was haunted by the uncertainty of what happened to his father, Jacob Noah Finkelstein. Tragically separated in ... read more

Cesare Lorenzi 1903 - 1945

Born 14.12.1903 in Guardistallo
Died 22.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Cesare Lorenzi came from a humble background and was the youngest of eight children, who were brought up by their socialist and workers’ leader father according to the ideals of fairness, ... 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