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Michele Rossini 1901 - 1944

Born 13.6.1901 in Ruvo di Puglia
Died 22.4.1944 in Ebensee

Michele Rossini was born on June 13, 1901 in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. During the '20s, he moved to Turin and worked at the FIAT-Ferriere Piemontesi factories. Despite the fascist regime's persecution, ... read more

Józef Nowak 1890 - 1940

Born 2.1.1890 in Jasienica
Died 22.8.1940 in Gusen

Polish policeman from Bielsko, and soldier of WWI. Escaped Russian captivity and went through Siberia to return to his beloved country, Poland. When WWII began, he was proposed a post in the Silesian ... read more

Ján Bulík 1897 - 1942

Born 1.1.1897 in Kovačica
Died 30.1.1942 in Mauthausen

Ján Bulík came from a patriotic peasant family of Slovakian settlers in the Serbian region of the Banat. After finishing primary school he attended the Serbian grammar school in Novi ... read more

Bedřich Lamm 1930 - 1945

Born 23.1.1930 in Moravská Třebová
Died 13.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Bedřich Lamm - a symbol of the Nazi persecution of Jewish children in Moravská Třebová Bedřich was born in the interwar period into a traditional Jewish Lamm family. His fa ... read more

José Aragón Muñoz 1904 - 1941

Born 19.4.1904 in Murcia
Died 30.7.1941 in Gusen

José Aragón Muñoz was born in Murcia (Spain) on 19 April 1904. Around 1927 he arrived in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, in the province of Barcelona (Spain), where his siblings Juana ... read more

Franciszek Szczeszak 1894 - 1943

Born 6.10.1894 in Markowice
Died 21.1.1943 in Mauthausen

Franciszek Szczeszak was born in Markowice near Krerowo as the son of the shoemaker Marcin (Martin) Szczeszak and his wife Elisabeth (nee Kaczmarek).  Aurelia Bartoszek Source:Civil Registry ... read more

Edmund Miller 1913 - 1942

Born 25.1.1913 in Warszawa
Died 19.9.1942 in Mauthausen

Edmund Karol Miller was in 1942 husband of Janina and father of little daughter Mirosława who was less than one year old when Edmund was arrested and taken to Auschwitz. Edmund’s wife, Janina, ... read more

Mario Minetti 1914 - 1944

Born 21.7.1914 in Ponti
Died 19.10.1944 in Gusen

My grandfather Mario Minetti (prisoner number 58994) was born in Ponti, in the province of Alessandria, into a peasant family; while still very young he moved to live with relatives in Vado Ligure ... read more

Teofil Galikowski 1898 - 1940

Born 26.7.1898 in Osieczna
Died 16.11.1940 in Gusen

Teofil Galikowski was a Polish railway worker, the son of Jan and Katarzyna, husband to Helena, and father of four children: Gertruda, Gabriela, Jan, and Józef. During the German occupation of ... read more

Ivan Godec 1921 - 1944

Born 27.10.1921 in Trbovlje
Died 17.3.1944 in Redl-Zipf

Ivan (Johann) Godec was a very enigmatic personality and still many questions concerning his personality remain unanswered. He was trained as an electrician or an engineer. After schooling, he was ... read more