Michał Cieślar 1898 - 1940
Born 5.7.1898 in Wiśle
Died 15.9.1940 in Gusen
Michał Cieślar was a teacher and social activist. He graduated from the Protestant teachers’ seminary in Bielsko. His began his first job in 1909 at a primary school in Górki Wielkie. A ... read more
Modest Mikołajewski 1900 - 1942
Born 20.11.1900 in Luberadz
Died 12.12.1942 in Mauthausen
My father came from a family of craftsmen, and like his own father became a blacksmith. He had two younger sisters. He married in 1926 and became the father of three children, who were eleven, eight ... read more
Augustyn Łukosz 1884 - 1940
Born 17.8.1884 in Stonava / Stonawa
Died 27.10.1940 in Gusen
Augustyn Łukosz was born in Stonava, in the present-day Czech Republic. He became a railwayman, lived in Łąka and held Polish citizenship. For three years he attended the Polish primary school in St ... read more
Giuseppe Zannini 1917 - 1945
Born 2.2.1917 in Bari
Died 15.5.1945
Giuseppe Zannini, the only child of Marco and Adele Lubrano, graduated in Political Sciences. He was a member of the Catholic University Federation (Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana, ... read more
Jacob Noah Finkelstein 1898 - 1945
Born 19.4.1898
Died 8.5.1945 in Wels
For more than 63 years after his liberation from Mauthausen, my father, Sol Finkelstein, was haunted by the uncertainty of what happened to his father, Jacob Noah Finkelstein. Tragically separated in ... read more
Henryk Sławik 1894 - 1944
Born 15.7.1894 in Jastrzębie-Zdró
Died 23.8.1944 in Mauthausen
In October 2013, 69 years after his murder in Mauthausen, the Viennese embassy of the Republic of Poland brought the memorial ceremonies organised in cooperation with the Hungarian embassy in Vienna ... read more
František Škopek 1912 - 1942
Born 20.4.1912 in Dřešín
Died 22.5.1942 in Mauthausen
František (christened Vojtěch) Škopek was born on 20 April 1912 in Dřešín, district Strakonice, Austria-Hungary. He spent all his childhood here, in the beautiful region o ... read more
Sylwester Makowski 1910 - 1940
Born 10.2.1910 in Rydzyń
Died 30.11.1940 in Gusen
Sylwester Makowski was the son of Jan Makowski and Paulina Bieganska and was born in Rydzyń, Mazowieckie, Poland, 10 February 1910. He married Jadwiga Bruzdewicz in Mlawa in 1932. Stephanie ... read more
Wladimir Signori 1925 - 1945
Born 29.7.1925 in Auboué
Died 2.3.1945 in Ebensee
After emigrating from Italy in flight from Mussolini’s Fascism, Egidio and Guglielma Signori settled in the mining town of Homécourt (department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) with their ... read more
Antón Vidal Filipó 1900 - 1945
Born 21.4.1900 in Valls de Canillo
Died 29.3.1945 in Mauthausen
Anton Vidal Filipó was born on 11 April 1900 in the Vidal family home in Prats, a small village near to the parish of Canillo (Principality of Andorra). His father was named Anton, like him, ... read more