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Samuel Emil Sekuris 1906 - 1945

Born 20.11.1906 in Radvaň / Banská Bystrica
Died 10.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Samuel Emil Sekuris graduated from both secondary school and a technical college for leatherworking. During his basic military training he attended the officer candidate school of the mountain ... read more

Mathieu de Jonge 1911 - 1944

Born 30.12.1911 in Bruxelles / Brussel
Died 17.7.1944 in Hartheim

Mathieu De Jonge was born on 31 December 1911. He was a lawyer in Brussels, married and the father of four small children. Driven on by his ideal, freedom, he went into the resistance, joining the ... read more

Wladimir Signori 1925 - 1945

Born 29.7.1925 in Auboué
Died 2.3.1945 in Ebensee

After emigrating from Italy in flight from Mussolini’s Fascism, Egidio and Guglielma Signori settled in the mining town of Homécourt (department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) with their ... read more

Jean-Marcel Pilet 1925 - 1945

Born 2.10.1925 in St-Ciers-de-Canesse
Died 20.2.1945 in Melk

 BORN ON 2 OCTOBER 1925 IN ST CIERS DE CANESSE (33) - FRANCE HE IS THE YOUNGEST OF A FAMILY OF THREE BOYS AND TWO GIRLS   ON 2 NOVEMBER 1943, in resistance to the STO (Service ... read more

Ferdynand Biliński 1889 - 1945

Born 3.1.1889 in Monasterzyska / Monastyryska
Died 4.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ferdynand Biliński was born on 3 January 1889 in Monasterzyska – south of Ternopil – in present-day Ukraine. He graduated in law from the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv and took up a ... read more

Ivan Senica 1908 - 1945

Born 25.5.1908 in Motnik
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ivan Senica was born on 25 May 1908 in the small flourishing city of Motnik located along the busy road between Carniola and Styria, Slovenian lands previously belonging to the Austro-Hungarian ... read more

Jan Czyżewski 1884 - 1945

Born 27.8.1884 in Kłonna
Died 16.3.1945 in Ebensee

Jan Czyżewski was born on 27 August 1884[1] in Kłonna, a small village 90 km south of Warsaw. He married Ewa Dombrowska and fathered three children. He worked as a farmer and served as mayor of the v ... read more

Wiktor Maślak 1911 - 1945

Born 22.10.1911 in Trojanów
Died 20.3.1945 in Ebensee

Wiktor Maślak was a soldier of Warsaw Uprising. He lived in Warsaw. He had a wife Stanislawa (died 1985) and two daughters: Gabriela died in 2007. Wanda lived in Warsaw, she died on April 4, ... read more

Andrea Zanon 1891 - 1945

Born 5.8.1891 in Schio
Died 15.3.1945 in Gusen

The family of Andrea Zanon (prisoner number 115783) originally came from Val di Rabbi (Trentino). He took part in both the Libyan War and the First World War as a mountain trooper and was awarded the ... read more

Győző Tihn 1900 - 1945

Born 22.5.1900 in Pestszentlőrinc / Budapest
Died 27.1.1945 in Gusen

Győző Tihn was the son of Győző Tihn sr. and Mária Hackl, and the husband of Mária Pelyva. Adam Tihn, great grandson of his brother Jozsef read more