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Rafael Torres Sicilia 1919 - 1941

Born 3.2.1919 in Córdoba
Died 19.12.1941 in Gusen

Rafael was from Córdoba. When he died in the concentration camp he was 22. As a prisoner, he was transferred to Belfort, Front-Stalag 140, and then to the German camp, Stalag XI.B, ... read more

Giuseppe Zannini 1917 - 1945

Born 2.2.1917 in Bari
Died 15.5.1945

Giuseppe Zannini, the only child of Marco and Adele Lubrano, graduated in Political Sciences. He was a member of the Catholic University Federation (Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana, ... read more

Sylwester Bukowski 1907 - 1942

Born 28.12.1907 in Środa
Died 30.12.1942 in Gusen

Sylwester Bukowski was a radio technician at the Radio Poznań and was arrested in Poznań in 1939. Piotr Bajdek, great-grandson read more

Tadeusz Małachowski 1888 - 1940

Born 27.3.1888 in Warszawa
Died 13.9.1940 in Gusen

He came from the distinguished Polish family of Nałęcz-Małachowski. He was a pharmacist educated at a university in Kyiv. He ran a pharmacy in the Kujawy region, invested in real estate in Warsaw and ... read more

Hartog Eljon 1890 - 1942

Born 26.12.1890 in Amsterdam
Died 7.10.1942 in Mauthausen

Hartog Eljon came from an Amsterdam family of diamond cutters. He himself was a travelling actor who performed on stage and in several cinemas explicating mute short films. He and his second wife ... read more

René Niel 1897 - 1944

Born 4.6.1897 in Romeyer
Died 21.8.1944 in Hartheim

René Niel was born June 7 1897 in Romeyer. Romeyer is a small village in the foothills of Vercors where resistance to Nazism would develop intensively during World War II.  In 1916, ... read more

Андрей Павлович Булаев / Andrej Pawlowitsch Bulaew 1914 - 1942

Born 15.8.1914
Died 12.5.1942 in Mauthausen

Andrej Pawlowitsch Bulaew was born in the village Kevdo-Melsitovo, Kamensky district of the Penza region. He was soldier in the 66th Howitzer Artillery Regiment, 61th Infantry Division. On 16 August ... 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

Józef Pypeć 1902 - 1941

Born 7.3.1902 in Pawłowice
Died 23.3.1941 in Gusen

Józef Pypeć was a teacher in a gymnasium in the Polish city of Łuków (Lukow). He was arrested by the Germans and sentenced for conducting underground teaching activities in P ... read more

Manuel Lucas Martínez 1919 - 1942

Born 3.12.1919 in Alhama de Almería
Died 26.1.1942 in Gusen

Manuel Lucas Martínez was born in Alhama de Almería on 3 December 1919. At the young age of 17, he was enlisted in the army voluntarily to defend the legitimate government of the ... read more