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Константин Алексеевич Алисенок / Konstantin Alexeewitsch Alisenok 1901 - 1944

Born 2.1.1901 in Kemeschowzy
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Konstantin Alexeevich Alisenok was born on 2 January 1901 into a peasant family in the village of Kemeshevtsy near Minsk. His father was Belorussian, his mother Sofia (Zosya), Polish. There were four ... read more

Zygmunt Dybiec 1921 - 1945

Born 6.11.1921 in Warszawa
Died 4.3.1945 in Gusen

Stanisław Dybiec lived with his family at 24 Rybaki Street in Warsaw. He owned a horse-drawn carriage company, which was seized in September 1939. In 1940 he founded his own shipping company and also ... read more

Franz Paul Erath 1913 - 1940

Born 19.12.1913 in Dunningen
Died 11.2.1940 in Mauthausen

Franz Paul Erath came into the world in Dunningen in the district of Rottweil as the seventh of ten children, of whom five died shortly after birth. In 1923, his parents Anna and Franz Xaver moved ... read more

Vojtech Ábel 1911 - 1945

Born 9.2.1911 in Piešťany
Died 10.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Vojtech Ábel studied at the College of Mechanical Engineering in Košice from 1929 to 1933. After completing training at the school for reserve officers in the motorised units, he was ... read more

Chaim Ajzyk Ciechanów 1908 - 1945

Born 27.7.1908 in Płońsk
Died 30.3.1945 in Ebensee

Chaim Ajzyk, a tailor, lived during the war in Antwerp (Belgium), was displaced in 1941 for a few months to Stevoort in the province of Limburg. Chaim went on transport XXV (19 May 1944) from the ... read more

Juda (Julian) Bonat 1898 - 1945

Born 2.10.1898 in Tarnów
Died 13.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Juda ”Julian” Bonat, was born in Tarnów, Austria to a wealthy Austrian Jewish family on October 2nd, 1898. His father was named Wolf Bonat, and his mother was named ... read more

Józef Pietraszek 1902 - 1941

Born 29.1.1902
Died 11.7.1941 in Gusen

My grandfather and my grandmother Zuzanna were biology teachers in the village of Skrzynno near Wieluń in Poland before World War Two. My grandfather was the principal of this school. Because of this ... read more

Karl Rupitsch 1910 - 1944

Born 17.11.1910 in Mühlbach
Died 28.10.1944 in Mauthausen

Karl was the youngest of seven siblings and became a widower and father of four early on. In 1936 he sold his mountain farm in Mühlbach and went to work in a sawmill in Goldegg. Because of a ... 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

Roberto Carrara

Born 20.11.1915 in Verona
Died 1945 in Mauthausen

Roberto Carrara, a solder with the 77th Infantry Division, took part in the winter campaign of 1940/41 in Albania but was sent home again when his feet started to suffer from frostbite. Instead of ... read more