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Antonio Rigoni 1883 - 1945

Born 4.2.1883 in Asiago
Died 6.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Antonio Domenico Rigoni was a priest. Fabrizio Scabio (2018) read more

Николай Иванович Кононенко / Nikolaj Iwanowitsch Kononenko 1895 - 1944

Born 28.4.1895 in Belopolje
Died 7.10.1944 in Mauthausen

Nikolai Ivanovich Kononenko was born on 28 April 1895 in the town of Belopolye (Bilopillya) in the Kharkov (Karkhiv) oblast. After finishing secondary school, he studied medicine until 1920 at ... read more

Ari Schwartz 1918 - 1944

Born 17.6.1918 in Bicsad / Bixad
Died 24.6.1944 in Gusen

Ari Schwartz was born in Bicsad (Bixad), Romania, to Menachem and Rosa. He was a locksmith/metalworker. He was single and prior to WWII he lived in Bicsad. Ronit Revach, relative read more

Vilhelm Gutfreund 1909 - 1945

Born 12.8.1909 in Katovice
Died 6.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Vilhelm Gutfreund was the third son of Eduard and Klára. He had brothers called Leo and Rudolf. Both parents were Jewish. His father Eduard co-owned a hat factory in Katowice and his mother ... read more

August Schäfer 1891 - 1944

Born 12.9.1891 in Erfurt
Died 23.1.1944 in Steyr

August Schäfer is the 4th person in this photo from the bottom left. He was principal of the Luisenschule in Görlitz from 1924 until 1941. We are currently investigating the reason as to ... read more

Jan Karczewski 1901 - 1942

Born 16.5.1901 in Montowo
Died 31.10.1942 in Gusen

From the life and work of Jan Karczewski 1901 Born in Montów, in the Lubawa poviat (today the Nowe Miasto poviat) in the working family of Teofil Karczewski, on 16 May, Jan was born, a ... read more

Cane Çaço 1897 - 1944

Born 13.4.1897 in Tragjas, Vlorë
Died 25.12.1944 in Gusen

Cane Çaço was a former local police officer and businessman who owned a bakery in Vlorë, Albania. Because of that, he used to secretly feed the partisans who were fighting to ... read more

Michał Szabuniewicz 1903 - 1941

Born 6.1.1903 in Mińsk / Minsk
Died 21.7.1941 in Gusen

Michał was the son of Maria, née Rasmowski, and Aleksander Szabuniewicz. After the start of the Russian Revolution, he and his brother Alexander fled to the Białystok region at the instigation ... read more

Filippo D'Agostino 1885 - 1944

Born 15.3.1885 in Gravina
Died 14.7.1944 in Hartheim

Filippo D’Agostino was a railway official. As an important politician of his time, he and his wife Rita Majerotti were involved in founding the Communist Party of Italy (Congress of Livorno). ... read more

Guglielmo Steiner 1909 - 1945

Born 13.5.1909 in Milano
Died 27.2.1945 in Ebensee

Mino Steiner was the son of Emerico Steiner, a Milanese industrialist of Bohemian origin, and Fosca Titta, the sister of the baritone Titta Ruffo; he was the nephew of Giacomo Matteotti and the ... read more