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Sylwester Makowski 1910 - 1940

Born 10.2.1910 in Rydzyń
Died 30.11.1940 in Gusen

Sylwester Makowski was the son of Jan Makowski and Paulina Bieganska and was born in Rydzyń, Mazowieckie, Poland, 10 February 1910. He married Jadwiga Bruzdewicz in Mlawa in 1932. Stephanie ... read more

Józef Radzikowski 1896 - 1941

Born 24.3.1896 in Ostrołęka
Died 1.4.1941 in Gusen

Józef Radzikowski was born in Ostrołęka (then Russia, nowadays east-north Poland) in a catholic middle-class family of local businessmen. Józef’s father had a restaurant, his g ... read more

Павел Михайлович Ковела / Pawel Michailowitsch Kowela 1902 - 1945

Born 29.6.1902 in Wolka Łosiniecka
Died .5.1945 in Mauthausen

Pavel Michailovich Kovela was born on 29 June 1902 in the village of Wolka Łosiniecka in the municipality of Paseki in the Tomaszów district of the voivodeship of Lublin (Poland) into a poor ... read more

Pietro Bastanzetti 1901 - 1944

Born 19.8.1901 in Vittorio Veneto
Died 2.6.1944 in Gusen

In 1902 Pietro Bastanzetti and his family arrived in Milan. At the age of twelve, after five years of primary schooling, he went out to work. He attended evening school and gained his secondary ... read more

Juan Serrano Bruno 1913 - 1942

Born 21.7.1913 in Mengíbar
Died 3.1.1942 in Gusen

He was born on July 21, 1913, in Mengíbar (Jaén, Spain). He was a day laborer by profession and married to Petra Galán Arenas. In the Spanish Civil War, he belonged to the 24th ... read more

David Schönberg 1898 - 1944

Born 22.12.1898 in Kraków
Died 13.12.1944 in Gusen

David Schönberg was married to Liza Schönberg née Priesel. They lived in Krakow. Their three daughters Sidonia (“Syda”), Rosa (“Lalla”) and Henriette ... read more

Olaf Eugen Paulus 1898 - 1945

Born 7.11.1898 in Stavanger
Died 13.1.1945 in Melk

Olaf Eugen Paulus was born on 7 November 1898 in Stavanger. He was the son of Olaf Paulus and Dagny Nitter. With a noted composer for a father and a music teacher for a mother, it was natural that ... read more

Adrien Marcouyre 1893 - 1944

Born 10.12.1893 in Roubia
Died 17.12.1944 in Melk

My great-grandfather died during deportation. I have no picture of him or information available, and his birth certificate and that of his son, who died in 1969, record only a few ... read more

Modest Mikołajewski 1900 - 1942

Born 20.11.1900 in Luberadz
Died 12.12.1942 in Mauthausen

My father came from a family of craftsmen, and like his own father became a blacksmith. He had two younger sisters. He married in 1926 and became the father of three children, who were eleven, eight ... read more

Деспот Опарушић / Despot Oparušić 1889 - 1943

Born 9.8.1889 in Donji Petrovci
Died 15.4.1943 in Gusen

At the time of his deportation to Mauthausen in 1943, Despot Oparušić was the president of the village of Donji Petrovci in Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He had been in this position for ... read more