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Erwin Cohn 1923 - 1941

Born 9.6.1923 in Hamburg
Died 25.8.1941 in Mauthausen

The Cohn family already lived in the Isestraße before 1933. Max Cohn (1891–1941) had attended the higher vocational school by the Holstentor gate and then studied business. With his first ... read more

Vicente Tomás Mogino 1910 - 1942

Born 15.9.1910 in Muro de Alcoy
Died 6.1.1942 in Gusen

Secretary of the Revolutionary Committee of Defense (U.G.T. – P.C.E – I.R). However, before that, he was elected a town hall member. He was also a comptroller in the elections to deputies ... read more

Piotr Ziarkiewicz 1906 - 1941

Born 3.6.1906 in Bortniki
Died 10.12.1941 in Hartheim

Piotr Ziarkiewicz was born 3 June 1906 in Bortniki in the Galicia country, district Lviv (Lwów), Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 he went to Trzemeszno. In the 1930ies he was president of ... read more

Mauricio Ribas Pujol 1908 - 1941

Born 22.4.1908 in Manresa
Died 1.11.1941 in Gusen

Maurici Ribas Pujol was born in Manresa in 1908, at number 30 Carrer Montserrat, in the Escodines neighborhood. He was the son of Isidre and Magdalena, and the youngest of five brothers. He completed ... read more

Alfredo Vezzani 1885 - 1945

Born 16.1.1885 in Firenze
Died 24.4.1945 in Mauthausen

My great-great grandfather Alfredo Vezzani was working for Breda company in those years and was taken prisoner in 1944 and died in the camp of Mauthausen. He was born in Florence 16 January 1885 ... read more

Лазар Сладоје / Lazar Sladoje 1900 - 1945

Born 14.4.1900 in Obalj
Died 15.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Lazar Sladoje was born in 1906 in Obalj to Djuro and Gospava Sladoje. He had three brothers and two sisters. He lived in Obalj for his whole life. After being caught in a Serb resistance group in ... read more

Camille Israel 1910 - 1945

Born 16.5.1910 in Luxembourg
Died 29.4.1945 in Ebensee

Camille Israel was born on 16 May 1910 in Luxembourg. He was a bookkeeper and fled on the day of the German invasion, on 10 May 1940, to France. There he lived in Montignac-sur-Vézère ... 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

Jan Wolf 1908 - 1941

Born 13.6.1908 in Turek
Died 21.7.1941 in Gusen

His father was called Leonard Wolf, who died in 1939 and is buried in the Zbyszewski plot in the main cemetery of Turek. Leonard Wolf's headstone mentions Jan Wolf.   Georges Zbyszewski read more

Robert Gaston Viry 1924 - 1943

Born 23.7.1924 in Plainfaing
Died 13.12.1943 in Wiener Neudorf

After completing primary schooling, Robert Viry decided to work as a weaver. The apprentice had never left Plainfaing, where he lived in the rue Noiregoutte. On 11 May 1943, after a tipoff had ... read more