Józef Blesznowski 1909 - 1945
Born 7.9.1909 in Andrzejów
Died 28.1.1945 in Gusen
My father, Józef Błesznowski, was born in a small village by the name of Andrzejów near to Radom. He lived from 1909 to 1945. He worked in the Szychta soap factory in the Warsaw ... 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
Romain Ruelle 1903 - 1942
Born 13.3.1903 in Antwerpen
Died 13.12.1942 in Gusen
Romanus Henricus Ruelle was born on the 13th of March 1903 in Antwerp as the youngest of three sons. Together with his parents and his brothers Henricus Antonius (* 12/03/1899 Antwerp) and Eduardus ... read more
Kurt Holger Schmahl 1910 - 1945
Born 18.1.1910 in Kopenhagen
Died 8.4.1945 in Mauthausen
In June 1933 the 23-year-old Kurt Holger Schmahl, a resident of 57 Isestraße in Hamburg, wrote to the president of the Lower Elbe State Financial Authority requesting that 35,000 Reichsmarks ... read more
Wacław Rymarowicz 1915 - 1944
Born 24.9.1915 in Wielany
Died 15.12.1944 in Hartheim
My grandfather Jozef Stanisław Rymarowicz lost two of his brothers in World War II, Wacław and Kazimierz (Flossenbürg). The family was from Wielany, a small village in Kramsk, Poland. We will n ... read more
Fritz Sidlof 1917 - 1945
Born 8.6.1917 in Wien
Died 1.5.1945 in Gusen
Fritz was the beloved son of Regina and Leopoldo Sidlof, who both died in 1942, and most loved brother of his sister Julie pictured here in 1938. Fritz was planning to study architecture in Vienna ... read more
Emanuel Oleś 1896 - 1941
Born 9.7.1896 in Gotartowice
Died 18.8.1941 in Hartheim
Thanks to my aunt, the last surviving daughter of my great-grandfather Emanuel, I was able to learn something about the history of my family. Keeping the memory of our deceased family members alive ... read more
Јово Коста Радмановић / Jovo Kosta Radmanović
Born 1922 in Donja Gata
Died 20.12.1943 in Mauthausen
Jovo Radmanović was born in 1922 in the village of Mala Gata (Bihać). He grew up in this village, which consisted of around 30 houses. Jovo was the fifth child of Kosta Radmanović, who died in Oc ... read more
Аллахверди Набиевич Джафаров / Allachwerdi Nabiewitsch Dschafarow
Born 1919 in Asirik-Dschirdachan
Died 25.6.1944 in Hartheim
Allakhverdi Nabievich Dzhafarov belonged to a group of prisoners in Mauthausen concentration camp about whom little is known, despite numbering some 4,500 people – members of the ... read more
Leopold Franciscus Dael 1907 - 1945
Born 12.9.1907 in Venlo
Died 1.3.1945 in Mauthausen
The brothers Jan and Leo Dael came from a large Catholic family. Leopold Dael Sen. and his wife Helena Maassen had nine children: four boys and five girls. Leopold was an energetic and successful ... read more
