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Hans Schloss 1921 - 1945

Born 26.11.1921 in Frankfurt
Died 22.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Hans Werner Schloss was the son of Herman and Lilli Schloss. He escaped from Germany to Italy with his parents where they were captured and held in the Ferramonti di Tarsia and Fossoli concentration ... read more

Jožef Kokot 1923 - 1944

Born 18.9.1923 in Horní Ves
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Jožek Kokot was born in 1923 in Oberdorf / Gornja vas as the eldest son of Jožef Kokot, who came from Sv. Vid near Grobelno (in present-day Slovenia), and his wife Magdalena Buksbaum. The family l ... 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

Edward Nowak 1913 - 1945

Born 13.12.1913 in Sosnowiec
Died 4.4.1945 in Gusen

Edward Nowak was born on 13 December 1913 in Sosnowiec, Poland. He worked at the coal mine “Zbyszek” in Trzebinia. He was married with four sons, and his wife Matylda was pregnant with ... read more

Marzell Leeb 1893 - 1940

Born 1.1.1893 in Gnesau
Died 1.11.1940 in Gusen

Marzell Leeb was the son of the carpenter Johann Leeb and his wife Maria. From 1905 Leeb attended the grammar school in Bolzano, later and k.k. State Upper Grammar School in Klagenfurt, before being ... read more

Louis Pfeifer 1895 - 1945

Born 8.1.1895 in Bad Marienberg
Died 20.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Louis Pfeifer was the son of Wilhelm and Pauline Pfeifer, a long-established family in Bad Marienberg/Westerwald. He served in the First World War as a marine. Afterwards he worked as an engraver. ... read more

Alfredo Brambilla 1915 - 1945

Born 8.7.1915 in Zürich
Died 3.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Alfredo Brambilla was an Italian electrician who was born on 8 July 1915 in Zurich. His wife was called Rita Nava. He had one child. On 11 March 1944 he was arrested by the Verona security police and ... read more

Иван Алексеевич Мишин / Iwan Alexeewitsch Mischin

Born 1912 in Nowyj Krjaschim / Machalino
Died 15.11.1942 in Gusen

My grandfather Michail Grigorevich Matvienko, a sergeant in the 117th Rifle Division, was reported missing in action near Gomel in mid-September 1941. For some years now, I have been trying, without ... read more

Alois Lechner 1893 - 1940

Born 2.8.1893 in Innsbruck
Died 19.2.1940 in Mauthausen

Alois Lechner was born on 2 August 1893 in Innsbruck. His father Josef Lechner was a master cobbler, his mother Christiane’s maiden name was Baldauf. The young Alois Lechner began an ... read more

Willibald Zelger 1907 - 1945

Born 17.11.1907 in London
Died 28.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Willibald Zelger was born on 17 November 1907 in London, the son of Lilian and Willibald Zelger. His father originally came from South Tyrol, had worked as a photographer in London around the turn of ... read more