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Mario Vanzati 1911 - 1944

Born 27.8.1911 in Nova Milanese
Died 15.5.1944 in Ebensee

Mario Vanzati was born in Nova Milanese on 27 August 1911. He was one of the protagonists of the resistance in this town. The first meetings between local partisans took place in his house on the ... read more

Giuseppe Vidale 1901 - 1945

Born 22.12.1901 in Schio
Died 10.2.1945 in Mauthausen

The son of Giovanni Battista Vidale and Celestina Lighezzolo worked as an electrician in a senior position at the Lanificio Rossi woollen mill. He approached his work with great passion and ... read more

Ervin Jakab 1923 - 1945

Born 17.2.1923 in Targu Mures
Died 28.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Ervin Jakab was born on February 17, 1923, in Targu Mures, Transylvania, Hungary, currently under the administration of Romania, father: Adolf Jakab, mother: Laura Jakab. He studied at the Jewish ... read more

Hans Alfred Meyers Miers 1922 - 1941

Born 1.12.1922 in Berlin
Died 23.9.1941 in Mauthausen

Annie Cohen was 15 years old when she met Hans Miers at a Christmas ball in 1939, four months before the Germans occupied the Netherlands. A Jewish girl meeting a Jewish boy at Christmas. What could ... read more

Arie Spier 1906 - 1941

Born 28.6.1906 in Gendringen
Died 31.10.1941 in Mauthausen

The livestock dealer and butcher Samuël Spier and his wife Judith de Haas had five children. Sophia, the eldest and only daughter, was followed by David, Arie, Salomon and Jacob. In Gendringen, ... read more

Piotr Budzyński 1896 - 1945

Born 24.6.1896 in Kijany
Died 28.2.1945 in Gusen

Before the war, Piotr Budzynski lived at the old town square of Warsaw, Poland. He was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp from Warsaw, Poland in September 1944 during a round-up. Family: His ... read more

Ricardo López López 1921 - 1942

Born 12.5.1921 in Saviñao (O) - Beleigán
Died 11.9.1942 in Mauthausen

Born on 12 May 1921, he was the youngest man deported to a Nazi camp from Caldes de Montbui. He was the son of Ricardo López López and Pilar López López. Originally from ... read more

Mauricio Ribas Pujol 1908 - 1941

Born 22.4.1908 in Manresa
Died 1.11.1941 in Gusen

Maurici Ribas Pujol was born in Manresa in 1908, at number 30 Carrer Montserrat, in the Escodines neighborhood. He was the son of Isidre and Magdalena, and the youngest of five brothers. He completed ... read more

Аллахверди Набиевич Джафаров / Allachwerdi Nabiewitsch Dschafarow

Born 1919 in Asirik-Dschirdachan
Died 25.6.1944 in Hartheim

Allakhverdi Nabievich Dzhafarov belonged to a group of prisoners in Mauthausen concentration camp about whom little is known, despite numbering some 4,500 people – members of the ... read more

Λέων Μπέτσικας / Leon Betsikas 1917 - 1945

Born 3.3.1917 in Chania
Died 24.4.1945 in Ebensee

Leon Betsikas was born on 3 March 1917 in Hania and he lived with his parents (Raphael and Perla) and his four sisters (Hrysoula, Anna, Sterina und Sara) near the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in the old town ... read more