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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

Wilmos Wolf Weiss 1895 - 1945

Born 23.4.1895 in Rónafalu / Schboriwzi
Died 22.5.1945 in Hörsching

The town in which I was born was Nagyszőllős.[1] It was in Czechoslovakia, when I was born, and then became Hungary in 1939. I was a very happy and somewhat innocent and naïve boy. I lived in a l ... read more

Kurt Kelman 1896 - 1945

Born 6.1.1896 in Berlin
Died 29.4.1945 in Ebensee

Carpenter. Arrested on 18 February 1943. Arrived in Auschwitz on 20 February 1943. Wife: Irma Kelman, nee Schwarzenberger – fate unknown. Michael Samuels, researcher   read more

Sándor Sichermann 1898 - 1945

Born 20.5.1898 in Cigánd
Died 24.5.1945 in Wels

Lawyer Sándor Sicherman, Sajószentpéter. He graduated from law academies in Kassa and Miskolc. From 1916 to 1918, he served in the 32nd army regiment. He started practicing law ... 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

Мина Харламович Клишанец / Mina Charlamowitsch Klischanez 1907 - 1942

Born 14.3.1907 in Kolodniza
Died 24.10.1942 in Gusen

My great-grandfather on my mother’s side, Mina Kharlamovich Klishanets, was born on 14 March 1907 in the Russian Empire in the village of Kolodnitsa (today in the Krupsky district of the Minsk ... 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

Walter Schütz 1908 - 1942

Born 6.11.1908 in Liberec
Died 9.5.1942 in Mauthausen

 Walter Schütz was born on 15 November 1908 in Liberec into the Jewish family of optician Friedrich Salomon Schütz and his wife Stefanie, née Kraus. The family owned the ... read more

Alexandre Folch Gómez 1910 - 1941

Born 6.8.1910 in Vistabella del Maestrazgo
Died 19.10.1941 in Gusen

He was born on 6 August 1910 in Vistabella del Maestrazgo (Castellón), son of Alexandre Folch Clerich and Dolors Gómez Salvador. He was single and he used to work as bricklayer. He used ... read more

Isak Leisten 1899 - 1945

Born 2.10.1899 in Tarnów
Died 12.3.1945 in Melk

Isak Leisten was the son of Simon Leisten and Miriam Riemer, and the husband of Jetti Gutter. Sulamith Beith Yannai read more