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Ибраш Крутаевич Кунтаев / Ibrasch Krutaewitsch Kuntaew 1907 - 1944

Born 25.1.1907 in Krutaya
Died 7.7.1944 in Hartheim

  Ibrash Kuntaev was born on 25 January 1907 in Krutaya, a village in the Kamensk region of West Kazakhstan. He had two brothers. However, his parents and the middle of the three brothers died ... read more

Moritz Schaap 1895 - 1941

Born 18.12.1895 in Noordhorn
Died 20.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Moritz Schaap was survived by his wife, Erna Oppenheimer Schaap and son, Klaus Schaap when they fled shortly after Moritz was picked up by the Nazis. They were saved by two different families during ... read more

Ernő Winkler 1894 - 1944

Born 20.1.1894
Died 10.7.1944 in Mauthausen

Ernő Winkler was the chief rabbi of Nagykanizsa, Hungary between 1919 and 1944. He was born in Újpest on 20 January 1894 (instead of 1899). read more

Chiel Bruhand 1897 - 1945

Born 4.6.1897 in Wieliczka
Died 24.1.1945 in Mauthausen

Chiel Bruhand was born in Wieliczka, Poland, just outside of Krakow on 4 June 1897 to Brucha. He had at least one brother, Benjamin. He lived in Krakow and was a successful engineer. He built ... read more

Eugenio Sánchez Rivera 1907 - 1941

Born 26.3.1907 in Fuente Obejuna - Cuenca
Died 14.8.1941 in Hartheim

He was born on 26/03/1907 in Aldea de Cuenca (Fuente Obejuna, Córdoba, Spain). He was a day labourer. He refused to submit to the coup uprising led by a group of fascist generals in ... read more

Giovanni Grosso 1889 - 1944

Born 22.12.1889 in Locana
Died 14.7.1944 in Hartheim

Giovanni Grosso was born in Locana, Italy, in 1889. He was committed to Mauthausen from Dachau on 13 January 1944. His number was 42109. He had been arrested because he was a communist. He died in ... read more

Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen 1903 - 1945

Born 7.9.1903 in Flekkefjord
Died 7.1.1945 in Melk

Arne Ingebrethsen was born in 1903 in Flekkefjord. With a newspaper editor for a father and a typographer for a mother, it was only natural that he follow in his parents’ professional ... read more

Jan Paweł Muchliński 1901 - 1942

Born 22.6.1901 in Dębogórze
Died 30.6.1942 in Gusen

Jan Paweł Muchliński was born in 1901 in Dębogórze in the municipality of Kościerzyna-Pomorze, the son of Anton Ignac, a landowner, and Ewa, née Ossowska, from Lubiszyn-Pomorze. At 16 he ... read more

Antoni Ruczko 1906 - 1941

Born 10.6.1906 in Suwałki
Died 19.8.1941 in Hartheim

Antoni Ruczko lived in the small city of Sejny in Poland. He worked as a shoemaker. He had a wife, Anastasia, and two children – son Zdzisław and daughter Stanisława. He was arrested b ... read more

Abraham Teitel 1913 - 1942

Born 3.6.1913 in Zeishorn
Died 23.10.1942 in Mauthausen

Abraham Manjoe Teitel, Brink 13, Muiden, born in Zeishorn on 3 June 1913, died in Mauthausen on 23 October 1942. Abraham Manjoe Teitel was married, he was the head of his family. During the war, in ... read more