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Ildefonso Nalda Nájera 1876 - 1941

Born 23.1.1876 in Tricio
Died 4.4.1941 in Gusen

Ildefonso Nalda Nájera was born in 1876 in Tricio, a town in the Spanish province of Longroño (today the La Rioja autonomous community). In 1936 when already 60 years old, he was still ... 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

Деспот Опарушић / Despot Oparušić 1889 - 1943

Born 9.8.1889 in Donji Petrovci
Died 15.4.1943 in Gusen

At the time of his deportation to Mauthausen in 1943, Despot Oparušić was the president of the village of Donji Petrovci in Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He had been in this position for ... read more

Michel Villeraud 1885 - 1943

Born 2.5.1885 in Chézy
Died 20.5.1943 in Mauthausen

Michel Villeraud was born on 2 May 1885 at his parents’ home in Chézy, Allier, in France. His father Gabriel and mother Leocadia, née Marciau, were farmers. On 19 October 1912 he ... read more

Francesco Affaba 1898 - 1945

Born 3.2.1898 in Salerano sul Lambro
Died 4.2.1945 in Gusen

Francesco Affaba, my paternal grandfather, was born in Salerano sul lambro, provincia di Lodi. He was incarcerated in San Vittore and then in Bergamo around 20 March 1944. He was deported to ... read more

Adolf Vlásek 1900 - 1942

Born 13.5.1900 in Hluboká
Died 12.4.1942 in Mauthausen

Adolf Vlásek was born in Hluboká nad Vltavou, the town located in the south part of the Czech Republic. He moved to Prague where he married my grand aunt Marie Straková. Adolf ... read more

Rafael Juan Montero 1918 - 1942

Born 7.11.1918 in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo
Died 10.1.1942 in Mauthausen

He was born on 07/11/1918 in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba). Rafael was a miner, born when the mining area of his home town became one of the most important industrial centre in ... read more

Tadeusz Kotłowski 1924 - 1945

Born 17.5.1924 in Poznań
Died 24.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Tadeusz Kotłowski was born on May 17, 1924, in Poznań, into a military family maintaining the patriotic traditions of Greater Poland. He was the eldest child among the five children of Kazimierz K ... read more

Петар Стојановић / Petar Stojanović 1896 - 1945

Born 12.7.1896 in Turjanski
Died 11.1.1945 in Gusen

Prisoner Number 100421 read more

Milivoj Kljaković-Gašpić 1927 - 1944

Born 8.8.1927 in Solin
Died 25.8.1944 in Hartheim

Milivoj Kljaković-Gašpić (Father Marin) was born in 1927 in Solin near Split (Dalamatia). While still at school he joined the partisan movement in September 1943 at the age of 16. As early as N ... read more