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Antoni Giwojno

Born 24.12.1899 in Koźliki
Died 1945 in Mauthausen

Antoni was my great-grandfather’s brother. His parents were Klemens and Agata. My grandfather’s name was Albert Giwojno. His parents were Kazimierz who married Helena, so Kazimierz was ... read more

Duilio Manzin 1895 - 1945

Born 3.6.1895 in Vicenza
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Duilio Giuseppe Manzin was the son of Candido Manzin and his wife Angela, nee Rossi. Fabrizio Scabio read more

Юрий Анатольевич Бабошин / Jurij Anatolijewitsch Baboschin

Born 24.12.1920 in Weliki Ustjug / Вели́кий У́стюг
Died 1944 in Mauthausen

The Soldier's Story My grandfather's elder brother, Yuri Anatolievich Baboshin (Jurij Anatolijewitsch Baboschin), was born on December 24, 1920, in Veliky Ustyug, Vologda Region, USSR. In ... read more

Louis Pfeifer 1895 - 1945

Born 8.1.1895 in Bad Marienberg
Died 20.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Louis Pfeifer was the son of Wilhelm and Pauline Pfeifer, a long-established family in Bad Marienberg/Westerwald. He served in the First World War as a marine. Afterwards he worked as an engraver. ... read more

Karl Lösch 1901 - 1943

Born 14.9.1901 in Berlin
Died 2.4.1943 in Gusen

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Василий Андреевич Игумнов / Wasilij Andreewitsch Igumnow 1912 - 1944

Born 1.1.1912 in Pensa
Died 20.5.1944 in Gusen

Vasily Andreevich Igumnov was born in the village of Chekashovi Polyanki in the Insarsky district of Penza oblast into the peasant family of coppersmith and master boilermaker Andrei Petrovich ... read more

Joan Deu Casanovas 1914 - 1941

Born 27.6.1914 in Caldes de Montbui
Died 22.11.1941 in Gusen

Born in Caldes de Montbui on 27 June 1914, he was son of Prim Deu Altarriba and Mercè Casanovas Pascual. He had three sisters: Anna, Vicenta and Rosa. He was single, working as a farmer and ... read more

Jakob Berger 1889 - 1944

Born 18.12.1889 in Kraków
Died 20.8.1944 in Melk

Jakub Berger was my Grandfather. Taken from his family in Berlin in 1938 during the Polenaktion. He ended up in his native town, Kraków, where his wife Franja joined him. Eventually he was ... read more

Richárd Engel de Jánosi 1882 - 1944

Born 31.7.1882 in Pécs
Died 30.4.1944 in Mauthausen

Richárd Engel de Jánosi was an engineer who in 1944 was the owner left in charge of his family’s lumber company, Adolf Engel & Sons in Pécs, Hungary. On 19 March ... read more

Jānis Nevidovskis 1901 - 1944

Born 26.3.1901 in Pēternieki
Died 19.5.1944 in Gusen

Jānis Nevidovskis was soldier in Latvian army till the Soviet occupation in 1940. After that, in 1942, Jānis became a member of resistance movement Latviešu Nacionālistu savienība (Latvian nat ... read more