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Johann Wisiorek 1891 - 1945

Born 19.9.1891 in Kopciowice
Died 2.5.1945 in Ebensee

Johann Wisiorek was the father of Cecylia Wisiorek. Cecylia was killed in Auschwitz – she was sentenced for publishing a newspaper called Braciom na otuchę. Her father was sent to Ebensee ... read more

Хризан Бугаенко / Chrisan Bugaenko 1910 - 1945

Born 5.4.1910 in Mytniza
Died 7.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Bugaenko Chrisan Filipovich was born on 5 April 1910, in Mytnytsia village, Vasilkovsky district, Kiev region. Nationality Ukrainian. Married, wife: Bugaenko Anastasia Savvovna (born on 7 January ... read more

Guido Valota

Born 3.12.1905 in Bariano
Died 5./6.4.1945 in auf dem Todesmarsch bei Steyr

Guido Valto moved to Sesto San Giovanni (Milan) in the 1920s to find work. First he worked in the Falck steel works, then as a toolmaker for the Breda Aeronautica factory. In 1942 he resigned from ... read more

Manuel Sariñena Esparel 1915 - 1941

Born 3.6.1915 in Barcelona
Died 2.9.1941 in Gusen

In recent years – both through our research work and through contact with relatives of victims of the National Socialist regime – we have become witnesses to genuine family dramas of the ... read more

Samuel Marcel Lévy 1902 - 1945

Born 11.6.1902 in Périgueux
Died 4.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Samuel Lévy and his wife Yvonne, née Meyer, married on 28 January 1927 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and had two sons: Alain, born on 7 May 1928, and Bertrand, born on 15 November ... read more

Renato Pedrini 1913 - 1945

Born 22.11.1913 in Torino
Died 9.4.1945 in Mauthausen

A radiologist by profession, Renato Pedrini moved from Turin to La Spezia, where his wife lived, and bought a photographic supplies shop in the city’s Migliarina district, going on to become a ... read more

Jean Rozinoer 1920 - 1943

Born 27.6.1920 in Paris
Died 29.6.1943 in Mauthausen

As a young medical student, still single, during the Second World War Jean Rozinoer lived with his parents at 280 rue Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. On 11 January 1940 he took part in ... read more

Max Bornstein 1924 - 1945

Born 8.6.1924 in Wien
Died 24.2.1945 in Gusen

I know very little about my uncle, as my mother, who survived Auschwitz, never told me about her family. The information I have is from what I was told by my uncle's classmates.   My uncle was ... read more

Avgust Pirjevec 1887 - 1943

Born 28.8.1887 in Gorizia
Died 9.12.1943 in Gusen

See for a detailed (Italian) biography including photos: Avgust Pirjevec (topografiaperlastoria.org) by Sasa Petejan, 2016. Thanks for the reference to Augustin Malle.  read more

Henryk Sławik 1894 - 1944

Born 15.7.1894 in Jastrzębie-Zdró
Died 23.8.1944 in Mauthausen

In October 2013, 69 years after his murder in Mauthausen, the Viennese embassy of the Republic of Poland brought the memorial ceremonies organised in cooperation with the Hungarian embassy in Vienna ... read more