Anton Egge 1896 - 1945
Born 5.3.1896 in Stryn
Died 27.2.1945 in Melk
My grandfather, Anton Egge, was born on 5 March 1896 in Hjelle in Norway. Anton was arrested on 12 January 1942 in Bergen. Initially the National Socialists stuck him in the Bergen kretsfengsel[1] ... read more
Teofil Galikowski 1898 - 1940
Born 26.7.1898 in Osieczna
Died 16.11.1940 in Gusen
Teofil Galikowski was a Polish railway worker, the son of Jan and Katarzyna, husband to Helena, and father of four children: Gertruda, Gabriela, Jan, and Józef. During the German occupation of ... read more
Lucien Truffy 1904 - 1945
Born 31.3.1904 in St-Savin-de-Blaye
Died 23.4.1945 in auf dem Todesmarsch bei Steyr
The two deportees Lucien Truffy and Georges Mazoyer were Communist activists whose deportation followed the same route and who always, as becomes clear in the testimony written by Georges Mazoyer in ... read more
Adolfo Lozano Olazabal 1897 - 1941
Born 27.9.1897 in Villabona
Died 7.11.1941 in Gusen
Adolfo Lozano Olazabal died on 7 November 1941 in the Mauthausen/Gusen extermination camp. ‘[T]hey were defeated by the Francoist army and fled into exile in fear of repression. Of all the ... read more
Hartog Eljon 1890 - 1942
Born 26.12.1890 in Amsterdam
Died 7.10.1942 in Mauthausen
Hartog Eljon came from an Amsterdam family of diamond cutters. He himself was a travelling actor who performed on stage and in several cinemas explicating mute short films. He and his second wife ... read more
Ernst Schafer 1898 - 1942
Born 25.3.1898 in Wien
Died 28.9.1942 in Mauthausen
The author Ernst Schafer lived at 14 Bergsteiggasse in Vienna’s Hernals district. As a Jew he was persecuted by the National Socialist regime of terror on racist grounds, was imprisoned at ... read more
Георгий Дмитриевич Зобнин / Georgij Dmitriewitsch Sobnin
Born 7.11.1917 in Noschul
Died 1945 in Mauthausen
In the night of 7 April 1944, aeroplane PS-84 of the 101st Fighter Aviation Regiment did not return from a mission – it was set alight by a German fighter plane in the area around Rakvere. ... 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
Bolesław Kapela 1891 - 1942
Born 7.7.1891 in Wągrowiec
Died 30.12.1942 in Mauthausen
Bolesław Kapela, son of Ludwik and Leokadia (maiden name Burkiewicz), was born on 7th July 1891 in Wągrowiec (Wongrowitz in German). After graduating from college he became a printer and seal e ... read more
Cesare Lorenzi 1903 - 1945
Born 14.12.1903 in Guardistallo
Died 22.5.1945 in Mauthausen
Cesare Lorenzi came from a humble background and was the youngest of eight children, who were brought up by their socialist and workers’ leader father according to the ideals of fairness, ... read more
