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Juda (Julian) Bonat 1898 - 1945

Born 2.10.1898 in Tarnów
Died 13.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Juda ”Julian” Bonat, was born in Tarnów, Austria to a wealthy Austrian Jewish family on October 2nd, 1898. His father was named Wolf Bonat, and his mother was named ... read more

Pierre Déjean 1912 - 1944

Born 16.7.1912 in Auch
Died 18.8.1944 in Hartheim

Born in Auch, France, in 1912, Pierre Déjean was the eldest of 4 children. At the age of 10, he joined the Éclaireurs de France, lay scouts in which he distinguished himself throughout ... read more

Tamás Tauszig 1921 - 1945

Born 19.2.1921 in Budapest
Died 24.4.1945 in Gusen

Tamás Tauszig or – as the family called him – Tomi was born on February 19, 1921 in Budapest to our old family nest on Szentkirályi út, where I ... read more

Stane Levec 1927 - 1945

Born 16.12.1927 in Ljubljana
Died 7.3.1945 in Gusen

Stane Levec was a radio operator in a Ljubljana post office. At the end of January 1944 he was arrested by the Slovene Home Guard. The connection between his arrest and the then military situation ... read more

Живан Бркић / Živan Brkić 1924 - 1944

Born 12.12.1924 in Kragujevac
Died 20.1.1944 in Gusen

Živan Brkić was born 121.12.1924. in Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was a member of Yugoslavian Royal Army. His roots comes from Serbian Orthodox family, from father Milovan Brkić and mother So ... read more

გრიგოლ ერემიას-ძე მოდებაძე / Grigorij Eremeewitsch Mudebadse 1915 - 1944

Born 12.5.1915
Died 25.5.1944 in Mauthausen

The National Archive of Georgia holds the household books for the village of Bunikauri in the Chaitura region for the years 1940 to 1942. There it states that Gervasi Erevia’s son Modebadze, ... read more

Wilhelmus Wilschut 1893 - 1945

Born 8.12.1893 in Utrecht
Died 31.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Wilhelmus Wilschut worked, from December 1912 onwards, as a Dutch psychiatric nurse in the Willem Arntsz Huis in Utrecht, a medium large city at the heart of The Netherlands. The asylum was built ... read more

Stanisław Janczar 1913 - 1945

Born 8.9.1913 in Wyszogród
Died 9.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Franciszek and Józefa Janczar’s son was born in the Polish town of Wyszogród, in the Płock district. He was one of five children. His life was closely linked with the river Wisła f ... read more

Max Bornstein 1924 - 1945

Born 8.6.1924 in Wien
Died 24.2.1945 in Gusen

I know very little about my uncle, as my mother, who survived Auschwitz, never told me about her family. The information I have is from what I was told by my uncle's classmates.   My uncle was ... read more

Wojciech Wojcieszak 1894 - 1941

Born 19.3.1894 in Niestronno
Died 22.4.1941 in Gusen

Wojciech Wojcieszak was born on 19 March 1894 in Niestronno, Poland, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Mogilno poviat, in the Mogilno commune. His mother was called Anna Wojcieszak. The ... read more