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Josep Catafau Rabadà 1914 - 1941

Born 7.9.1914 in Caldes de Montbui
Died 22.11.1941 in Gusen

Born on 7 September 1914 in Caldes de Montbui, son of Josep Catafau and Maria Rabadà Grimau. He had four siblings: Jaume, Miquel, Maria and Frederic. He worked as a driver and he was single. ... read more

Владислав Дзяд / Wladislaw Dsjad 1904 - 1944

Born 31.3.1904 in Lwow / Lwiw
Died 18.2.1944 in Klagenfurt

The Soviet concentration camp prisoner Vladislav Dzyad (Mauthausen prisoner number 36127) was registered ‘dead’ on 18 February 1944. His name appears in the book of the dead at the ... read more

Andrzej Piechota 1886 - 1941

Born 19.1.1886 in Sokołów
Died 6.2.1941 in Gusen

Andrzej Piechota was born into a farming family on 19 January 1886 in Sokołow in the Turek district. He was educated at the religious college in Włockławek. From 1909 onwards, Andrzej Piechota worked ... read more

Norbert Abrahamssohn 1916 - 1941

Born 21.9.1916 in Hamburg
Died 30.9.1941 in Mauthausen

Norbert Abrahamssohn was deported from the Netherlands to Mauthausen when young Jewish men were rounded up in what, I believe, was the second razzia in Amsterdam. He had been training in ... read more

Jan Włodarczyk 1892 - 1944

Born 24.8.1892 in Maleszowa
Died 13.12.1944 in Hartheim

Jan Włodarczyk had close connections with the province of Zagłębie Dabrowskie, the Dąbrowa Basin, and with the city of Sosnowiec. His lived there with his wife Katarzyna and their three children, Mar ... read more

Abilio Álvarez Bernardo 1916 - 1942

Born 25.6.1916 in Olelas (Entrimo)
Died 2.2.1942 in Hartheim

He was born on 25 June 1916 in Olelas, a small Galician village in Entrimo council in Ourense. Olelas is very close to the border which unites Galician and Portuguese people. His parents were ... read more

Paul Wallis 1900 - 1940

Born 15.11.1900 in Wien
Died 11.3.1940 in Mauthausen

Paul Wallis was born on 15 November 1900 in Vienna.[1] Although a Catholic, his family background meant the Nazis classified him as Jew. A single man, he lived in Innsbruck and was a member of the ... read more

Stanisław Malinowski 1881 - 1942

Born 3.2.1881 in Inowrocław
Died 8.1.1942 in Gusen

Stanisław Malinowski was the son of Michał Malinowski and his wife Marianna Harenda. Grzegorz Malinowski, great-great grandson read more

Wiktor Potarzycki 1889 - 1940

Born 9.9.1889 in Gordów
Died 12.8.1940 in Gusen

Wiktor Potarzycki was a teacher and was married to Franciszka Potarzycka, They had two daughters, Maria and Halina. Wiktor was a Polish officer and fought in First World War. He was sergeant. After ... read more

Jan Tkocz 1886 - 1945

Born 29.8.1886 in Chwałowice
Died 28.2.1945 in Gusen

Jan Tkocz was born on 29 August 1886 in Chwałowice in Poland. He was the head of the heroic Tkocz family whose uncrushable resistance to German occupation during the Second World War is widely ... read more