Szczepan Róziewicz 1917 - 1945
Born 7.12.1917 in Łychów
Died 3.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Szczepan Róziewicz was captured in Warsaw in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. He and my grandmother, along with my father and their neighbors, were taken out of this tenement house from their ... read more
Otto Kende 1912 - 1945
Born 19.3.1912 in České Budějovice
Died 10.5.1945 in Mauthausen
Otto Kende was born Otto Kohn, son of Josef (born on 27 July 1882 in Volyně) and Helena, née Schladnichová (born on 26 August 1888 in České Budějovice). According to the archives ... read more
Michał Czachor 1888 - 1941
Born 11.9.1888 in Cmolas
Died 5.9.1941 in Gusen
Michał was survived by his wife Zofia, who died in 1996, and eight of their children: Genowefa, Pelagia, Joanna, Weronika, Józef, Tadeusz, Stanisława, Leon. Pawel Barancewicz, g ... read more
Jan Kowalski 1897 - 1945
Born 28.9.1897 in Przysucha
Died 27.1.1945 in Gusen
Jan Kowalski was born in Przysucha in Poland. He moved to Warsaw with his girlfriend Bronisława (maiden name Pawlik) from Pomykow. They married and lived at Powisle district of Warsaw, at 8 Browarna ... read more
Paweł Zygowski 1912 - 1940
Born 17.6.1912 in Danzig / Gdańsk
Died 8.12.1940 in Mauthausen
Pawel (Paul) Zygowski was my great-grandfather's uncle. The Zygowski family lived in Langfuhr, Danzig as well as the surrounding areas from as far back as the 1880s. The attached card sent to Paul's ... read more
Henryk Kłosowicz 1912 - 1941
Born 18.9.1912 in Rychwałd
Died 6.12.1941 in Hartheim
Henryk Kłosowicz was the son of Feliks and Justyna (née Gąsiorek) who lived in Rychwałd. In 1935 he completed his education at the state grammar school M. Kopernikus in Żywiec. Between 1935 and ... read more
Peter van Pels 1926 - 1945
Born 8.11.1926 in Osnabrück
Died 10.5.1945 in Mauthausen
‘I sat down on the stairs, and we began to talk... Peter didn't say anything more about his parents; we just talked about books and about the past. Oh, he gazes at me with such warmth in his ... read more
Oskar Roubíček 1898 - 1945
Born 28.2.1898 in Dvorce/Tučapy
Died 14.2.1945 in Mauthausen
Oskar Roubíček was born 28 February 1894 in Dvorce/Tučapy. He was a locksmith by trade. He was married to Olga Roubíček born Krutzký on 28 September 1896. Olga survived the war as ... read more
Jan Čipera 1889 - 1945
Born 16.8.1889 in Liteň u Berouna
Died 1.5.1945 in Mauthausen
Jan Čipera was born the son of a headteacher. He was of Czech nationality and a Roman Catholic. He completed his secondary education at a Czech school in Prague’s Third District. After his ... read more
Marian Wiewiórkowski 1910 - 1941
Born 7.8.1910 in Opatówek
Died 6.4.1941 in Gusen
From 1937 my grandfather was the postmaster in Opatówek near Kalisz. He was imprisoned in Opatówek and in Kalisz, then deported to the Dachau concentration camp and subsequently to the ... read more
