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Luigi Cortile 1898 - 1945

Born 8.4.1898 in Nola
Died 9.1.1945 in Melk

Marshal Major in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Guard)[1] Enlistment: 21 February 1917, as a guard. Training course at the school for non-commissioned officers in Caserta after the First World ... read more

Петр Иванович Карев / Petr Iwanowitsch Karew 1887 - 1944

Born 29.6.1887 in Talabsk / Salit
Died 3.8.1944 in Hartheim

Petr Ivanovich Karev was born on 29 June 1887. He lived with his family on Talabsk Island in Lake Pskov. A fisherman by profession, he wove nets for catching fish. In 1941 he was deported to the ... read more

Józef Rzyman 1894 - 1941

Born 17.3.1894 in Sucha Górna
Died 8.12.1941 in Hartheim

Józef Rzyman was married to Anna Rzymanova (nee Przeczekova) and lived in Łazy. They had two children, Wanda Rzymanova and Tadeusz Rzyman. Józef was on the town council and also ... 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

Marcel Cools 1906 - 1942

Born 17.8.1906 in Flémalle
Died 15.8.1942 in Gusen

Marcel Cools was a union delegate for the metal workers in the municipality of Liège and a local council member for the Belgian workers’ party in Liège, responsible for education. ... read more

Břetislav Bauman 1905 - 1942

Born 3.12.1905 in Horoušany u Prahy / Horoušany
Died 24.10.1942 in Mauthausen

History of the Bauman Family Břetislav Bauman was born on 3 December 1905 and was the son of Jan and Anna Bauman. In 1911 he started to attend the local mixed primary school, which had two classes. ... read more

Xhevdet Doda 1906 - 1945

Born 18.5.1906 in Prizren
Died 5.1.1945 in Gusen

Xhevdet Doda was born in Prizren and was a teacher before joining the movement against Fascism. Doda was arrested and interned at the Porto Romano camp, from where he escaped and rejoined the fight ... read more

Bernát Triebwasser 1894 - 1945

Born 13.10.1894 in Ópályi
Died 13.2.1945 in Melk

He stayed behind, while his parents and younger siblings went to the United States, to mind the horse ranch. Unknown if he was married or had children.   Penelope Trieb, great ... 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

Vilmos Nemes 1889 - 1945

Born 27.5.1889 in Nemeske
Died 6.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Vilmos Nemes (born Hausner) was the eighth of 13 children of David and Karolin Hausner (nee Weisz). He was born on 27 May 1889 in the village of Nemeske, Somogy County, Hungary. In the early ... read more