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Hugo Samkalden 1906 - 1943

Born 18.2.1906 in Idi
Died 15.3.1943 in Mauthausen

Hugo Samkalden was one of the four children of Joseph Samkalden and Debora de Beer. He spent his early years on Sumatra, where he father worked for the Dordtsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Dordtsche Oil ... read more

Rufin Penne 1903 - 1945

Born 25.12.1903 in Aspelare
Died 30.1.1945 in Gusen

Rufin Penne was born on 25 December 1903 in Aspelaere and died on 30 or 31 January 1945 in Gusen (number 97494). He was a director at the Ministry of Education in Brussels. During the war he was an ... read more

Константин Николаевич Вашкевич / Konstantin Nikolaewitsch Waschkewitsch 1906 - 1945

Born 14.2.1906 in Olgowo
Died .4.1945 in Gusen

Konstantin Nikolaevich Vashkevich was born on 14 February 1906 in the village of Olgovo in the Dmitrovsky district of Moscow oblast. His father Nikokai Alexeevich worked as the municipal clerk. His ... read more

Hermann Karrasch 1897 - 1945

Born 21.12.1897
Died 23.3.1945 in St. Valentin

Hermann Karrasch was born in Bolejny (deutsch: Bolleinen), Kreis Osterode, to parents Johann Karrasch and Eva, née Grybowski. Johann Karrasch was an Eigenkätner in Bolleinen. He served in ... read more

Cichoń Lepiocha 1905 - 1941

Born 30.11.1905 in Jeszkowice
Died 9.12.1941 in Hartheim

Cichoń Lepiocha was a podoficer (sergeant) of Straż Graniczna (border guards) in the Pomorski Inspektorat Okręgowy (Pomeranian District Inspectorate). He and his wife lived in Lubocino. He left be ... read more

Wojciech Wojcieszak 1894 - 1941

Born 19.3.1894 in Niestronno
Died 22.4.1941 in Gusen

Wojciech Wojcieszak was born on 19 March 1894 in Niestronno, Poland, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Mogilno poviat, in the Mogilno commune. His mother was called Anna Wojcieszak. The ... read more

Stanisław Długi 1900 - 1945

Born 5.10.1900 in Wielkopolski
Died .5.1945 in Ebensee

Stanisław Długi was born on 5 October 1900 in Wielkopolski. He was a member of the Polska Organizacja Wojskowa (POW – Polish Military Organisation) in Wielkopolski and took part in the Greater P ... read more

Marko Golja 1879 - 1943

Born 24.4.1879 in Goglia / Veli Golij
Died 19.12.1943 in Gusen

Marko Golja was born on 24 April 1879 in Croatia, in the city of Labin, village Veli Golji (at that time part of Austria, later part of Italie, from 1945 part of Yugoslavia). His father‘s name ... read more

Max Bornstein 1924 - 1945

Born 8.6.1924 in Wien
Died 24.2.1945 in Gusen

I know very little about my uncle, as my mother, who survived Auschwitz, never told me about her family. The information I have is from what I was told by my uncle's classmates.   My uncle was ... read more

Stanisław Bieńkowski 1915 - 1945

Born 16.8.1915 in Teresław
Died 4.2.1945 in Ebensee

Stanisław Bieńkowski was born on 16 August 1915 in Teresław (Mazovian voivodeship) to Jan Bieńkowski and Anna Zagórska. His siblings were Ewa, Adam and Władysław. As a young man, he moved to Wa ... read more