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Oldřich Pechal 1913 - 1942

Born 12.5.1913 in Osvětimany
Died 22.9.1942 in Mauthausen

On 22 September 1942, First Lieutenant Oldřich Pechal, commander of the ‘Zinc’ parachute unit, was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. On the same day he was hanged in ... read more

Francisco González Reche 1917 - 1941

Born 11.8.1917 in El Chirivel
Died 25.12.1941 in Gusen

Francisco was a cheerful, modern and advanced young man of his time, being the most beautiful person with an outgoing and cheerful heart. For his youth and his most progressive ideals, he went ... read more

Jan Fabiański 1911 - 1944

Born 24.11.1911 in Warszawa
Died 20.12.1944 in Gusen

Jan Fabiański was born in Warsaw on 24 November 1911 (birth certificate no. 505 from St. Cross parish church in Warsaw) to Adam Fabiański and Marianna Fabiańska born Jamiołkowska. He was born in the h ... read more

Jan Szweda 1909 - 1942

Born 5.7.1909 in Grzawa
Died 25.9.1942 in Mauthausen

Jan Szweda was born in 1909 in Grzawa in the Pszczyna municipality. He came from a family of farmers. He married Jadwiga Wojciech. Their son Florian was born in 1937. In summer 1937 Jan was called ... read more

Григорий Швецов / Grigorij Schwezow 1910 - 1945

Born 27.11.1910 in Morschansk
Died 20.4.1945 in Gusen

Born in Morshansk, Tambov Governorate (Oblast), Russia. Worked as agricultural machinery locksmith, was conscripted on 28 July 1941. Served in the rank of junior lieutenant (unterleutnant) in 1046th ... read more

Felicjan Murawski 1909 - 1941

Born 1.8.1909 in Gaj
Died 21.9.1941 in Hartheim

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Emil Schubert 1887 - 1945

Born 26.8.1887
Died 19.2.1945 in Melk

Member of the SPD and Reichsbanner; political prisoner from 1933 to-1945. Wife: Martha Franke. Childrend: Erich, Herbert, Erika. Citizenship and WW1 military pension and freedoms revoked by ... 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

Marianne Nagy 1924 - 1945

Born 22.8.1924 in Budapest
Died 5.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Marianne Nagy was just 20 years old when she died in Mauthausen. She was born on 22 August 1924 in Budapest, the second daughter of a bourgeois Jewish family. Together with her parents, Mihály ... read more

Àngel Artola Casals 1903 - 1941

Born 2.8.1903 in Sant Hilari Sacalm
Died 12.8.1941 in Gusen

Àngel Artola Casals was a Catalan teacher and victim of Nazism, born on August 2, 1903 in Sant Hilari Sacalm (region of La Selva, Girona) and died on August 12, 1941 in the Gusen concentration ... read more