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Amedeo Scuratti 1899 - 1945

Born 19.9.1899 in Nova Milanese
Died 19.2.1945 in Gusen

Amedeo Scuratti was born on 19 September 1899 in Nova Milanese where he lived in Via S. Sebastiano 1. He was married to Silvia Castelletti and they had three children. In 1935 Amedeo was employed as ... 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

Alfred Alt 1913 - 1940

Born 15.8.1913 in Wien
Died 3.10.1940 in Gusen

The brothers Karl and Alfred Alt were born in Vienna, Karl on 13 July 1910 and Alfred on 15 August 1913. They grew up in the city’s 7th district together with their older sister and their older ... read more

Ida Strohmer 1922 - 1945

Born 5.5.1922 in Hegyeshalom
Died 17.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ida Beck was born on 5 May 1922 in Hegyeshalom (Hungary), the daughter of Johann and Ida Beck. At the beginning of the 1920s the family moved to Vienna and was living in the Währing district ... read more

Pankracij Schwarz 1898 - 1940

Born 11.5.1898 in St. Ulrich
Died 24.2.1940 in Mauthausen

Pankracij Schwarz (Švarc) was the son of the farmhand Maria Wasser, born in what was commonly known as Siegernig in St. Ulrich. His parents only married after his birth. Further children were ... read more

Józef Nowak 1890 - 1940

Born 2.1.1890 in Jasienica
Died 22.8.1940 in Gusen

Polish policeman from Bielsko, and soldier of WWI. Escaped Russian captivity and went through Siberia to return to his beloved country, Poland. When WWII began, he was proposed a post in the Silesian ... read more

Camille Gaignage 1908 - 1945

Born 27.12.1908 in Marilles
Died 12.3.1945 in Mauthausen

My father, Camille Gaignage, was born on 27 December 1908 in 1350 Marilles (Orp-Jauche, Belgium). After finishing compulsory education at the main school in Jodoigne he worked alongside his father, ... read more

Augustyn Łukosz 1884 - 1940

Born 17.8.1884 in Stonava / Stonawa
Died 27.10.1940 in Gusen

Augustyn Łukosz was born in Stonava, in the present-day Czech Republic. He became a railwayman, lived in Łąka and held Polish citizenship. For three years he attended the Polish primary school in St ... read more

Jan Tkocz 1886 - 1945

Born 29.8.1886 in Chwałowice
Died 28.2.1945 in Gusen

Jan Tkocz was born on 29 August 1886 in Chwałowice in Poland. He was the head of the heroic Tkocz family whose uncrushable resistance to German occupation during the Second World War is widely ... read more

Иван Сергеевич Складнев / Iwan Sergeewitsch Skladnew 1914 - 1942

Born 17.8.1914 in Uchlowo
Died 25.4.1942 in Mauthausen

In the summer of 1941, a month before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Sergeyevich Skladnev was conscripted for military training courses. He was 27 years old at that time. It seemed ... read more