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Artur Berger 1914 - 1945

Born 3.3.1914 in Niederzissen
Died 12.5.1945 in Gusen

ARTUR or ARTHUR BERGER 1914 to 1945 Arthur Berger was born in Niederzissen, Ahrweiler (district), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany on 3 March 1914 to Julius Berger (1883-1918) and Josefine Eggener ... read more

Marija Hafner 1914 - 1942

Born 29.11.1914 in Stražišče
Died 20.4.1942 in Mauthausen

On 16 April 1942 the Slovenian resistance movement shot five German collaborators, among them the German mayor of Jesenice, Karl Luckmann.  As a reprisal for this action, SS Gruppenführer ... read more

Antonio Bonfanti 1902 - 1945

Born 2.8.1902 in Osnago
Died 25.1.1945 in Melk

Antonia Bonfanti was a countryman and dealer in wood and coal. Accused of delivering food to groups of partisans, he was arrested by a ration card inspector. He was deported to Mauthausen ... read more

Elie Talle 1902 - 1945

Born 10.7.1902 in Saulzet
Died 30.4.1945 in Schuls

His father Pierre was a domestic servant, his mother Marie, née Bost, did not work. Elie Talle completed his military service from 13 November 1922 to 7 May 1924 with the 6th Group of the ... read more

Павел Константинович Трегубов / Pawel Konstantinowitsch Tregubow 1904 - 1945

Born 18.8.1904 in Tschugan
Died 3.1.1945 in Hartheim

Pavel Konstantinovich Tregubov was born on 18 August 1904 into a poor peasant family in the village of Chugan in the Sulaevsky municipality of the Vyatsky district of the Vyatka oblast (in what is ... read more

Jan Topolewski 1890 - 1945

Born 16.1.1890 in Kowno
Died 31.5.1945 in Gusen

Jan Wojciech Topolewski – prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen/Gusen concentration camps, prisoner number 102403 – remembers his father Jan Topolewski, prisoner number ... read more

Jan Chyżewski 1900 - 1940

Born 19.10.1900 in Włocławek
Died 26.11.1940 in Gusen

Jan Czyżewski was born on 27 August 1884[1] in Kłonna, a small village 90 km south of Warsaw. He married Ewa Dombrowska and fathered three children. He worked as a farmer and served as mayor of the v ... read more

Józef Kubica 1888 - 1940

Born 9.12.1888 in Orlová
Died 21.9.1940 in Gusen

Józef Kubica was born on 9 December 1888 in Orlová (in Polish Orłowa) in Cieszyn Silesia, then a part of Austrian Silesia. He attended a Polish Lutheran elementary school and later a ... read more

Sylwester Bukowski 1907 - 1942

Born 28.12.1907 in Środa
Died 30.12.1942 in Gusen

Sylwester Bukowski was a radio technician at the Radio Poznań and was arrested in Poznań in 1939. Piotr Bajdek, great-grandson read more

Guido Valota

Born 3.12.1905 in Bariano
Died 5./6.4.1945 in auf dem Todesmarsch bei Steyr

Guido Valto moved to Sesto San Giovanni (Milan) in the 1920s to find work. First he worked in the Falck steel works, then as a toolmaker for the Breda Aeronautica factory. In 1942 he resigned from ... read more