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Ludwik Stępniak 1902 - 1941

Born 13.8.1902 in Wola
Died 31.7.1941 in Gusen

Ludwik Stępniak was born in 1902 in Wola Owsiana in the Kutno county in Warsaw governorate in the Russian partition of Polish lands. After the First World War, when Poland achieved independence, he ... read more

Bronisław Śniegocki 1902 - 1944

Born 31.8.1902 in Niesłuchowo
Died 31.8.1944 in Hartheim

My father Bronisław Śniegocki was born on 31 August 1902 in Niesłuchowo into an impoverished noble family. He was granted a middle school education. He had four siblings: three brothers and one si ... read more

Sándor Fleischmann 1909 - 1945

Born 12.2.1909 in Šurany
Died 8.2.1945 in Gusen

Sándor was born to Aron Fleischman and his wife Filipka in 1909. He was the second child in the family of a tailor and a dressmaker. There were six children born between 1906 and 1915. Their ... read more

Samuel Marcel Lévy 1902 - 1945

Born 11.6.1902 in Périgueux
Died 4.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Samuel Lévy and his wife Yvonne, née Meyer, married on 28 January 1927 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and had two sons: Alain, born on 7 May 1928, and Bertrand, born on 15 November ... read more

Raphael Weichbrodt 1886 - 1942

Born 21.9.1886 in Łabiszyn
Died 31.5.1942 in Mauthausen

Raphael Weichbrodt was born on 21 September 1886 in Łabiszyn on the river Notéc (formerly in Posen province).[1] He came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family and after leaving school studied ... read more

Alexander Katan 1899 - 1943

Born 18.11.1899 in Rotterdam
Died 27.1.1943 in Gusen

Alexander Katan was born and lived in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He was the son of Israel Marcus Katan and Celli van Gelderen. He worked in several roles as a kantoorbediende (clerk), including that of ... read more

Henri Levin 1908 - 1945

Born 5.5.1908 in Wilno / Vilnius
Died 30.3.1945 in Ebensee

The life of Henri Levin/Lewin has been rebuilt by a class of the International French Lyceum of Vilnius, in Lithuania, where he is born. The class was part of the French project "Convoi 77", about ... read more

Charles Dainville 1915 - 1945

Born 30.1.1915 in Strépy-Bracquegnies
Died 6.1.1945 in Gusen

REPORT FROM THE MOUVEMENT NATIONAL BELGE (HAINAUT): During the Occupation he developed the MNB (Mouvement National Belge) in the region (of La Louvière) then in the sector then in the zone ... read more

Jakub Schreiber 1894 - 1945

Born 24.3.1894 in Brzesko
Died 3.2.1945 in Gusen

Janek (Jakub) Schreiber was a middle-class businessman who had a small shop in Kraków, where he sold leather and shoe supplies. He and his cherished wife, Adela ... read more

Marguerite Pellet 1904 - 1945

Born 12.8.1904 in Lyon
Died 20.3.1945 in Amstetten

After training at a school for primary school teachers in Lyon from 1920 to 1923, Marguerite Baud worked as a trainee teacher in Theizé (department of Rhône) in 1924 and in the following ... read more