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Felicjan Organiściak 1922 - 1943

Born 7.6.1922 in Kórnik
Died 6.4.1943 in Gusen

Felicjan Organiściak was born in Kórnik, Greater Poland, as the second child and the first son of Władysław Organiściak, a merchant from Kórnik, and his wife Joanna Organiściak (nee Frąc ... read more

Γεώργιος Γεωργιακάκης / Georgios Georgiakakis 1914 - 1944

Born 7.9.1914 in Sougia
Died 28.8.1944 in Mauthausen

The following information about Georgios Ioannou Georgiakakis[1] and his family is taken from stories told by his cousin, Stavros Georgiakakis (born in 1932), the autobiographical testimony written ... read more

Artur Tydor 1925 - 1945

Born 19.12.1925 in Kraków
Died 19.3.1945 in Ebensee

He was brother to my great-great-grandfather Alexander. His name was Artur Tydor, he was born in 1925 in Kraków, Poland to Bernard Tydor and Chana Reiser (née Linker). He was searched ... read more

Kálmán Schwarcz 1891 - 1945

Born 11.4.1891 in Remetea-Oașului / Remetea Oașului
Died 7.1.1945 in Gusen

Kálmán Schwarcz was a well-known merchant and a respected man in Bixad, where he lived. He was married to Frida Steinfeld and had 14 children. Ronit Revach, great-granddaughter read more

Jenő Schlesinger 1893 - 1945

Born 27.3.1893 in Šurany
Died 4.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Jenő Schlesinger was the uncle of my father. His date of birth I have found in the Slovak Archive in Ivánka pri Nitre with a different year, born on 27 March 1893 in Nagysurány ... read more

Henryk Sławik 1894 - 1944

Born 15.7.1894 in Jastrzębie-Zdró
Died 23.8.1944 in Mauthausen

In October 2013, 69 years after his murder in Mauthausen, the Viennese embassy of the Republic of Poland brought the memorial ceremonies organised in cooperation with the Hungarian embassy in Vienna ... read more

Петр Иванович Карев / Petr Iwanowitsch Karew 1887 - 1944

Born 29.6.1887 in Talabsk / Salit
Died 3.8.1944 in Hartheim

Petr Ivanovich Karev was born on 29 June 1887. He lived with his family on Talabsk Island in Lake Pskov. A fisherman by profession, he wove nets for catching fish. In 1941 he was deported to the ... read more

Jacob Polak 1913 - 1941

Born 16.9.1913 in Amsterdam
Died 18.12.1941 in Mauthausen

Japie Polak, the oldest of Liepman Polak and Roosje Spanjar’s seven sons, grew up at 89 Rapenburgerstraat in Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter. Originally his father had been a diamond cutter ... read more

Marija Hafner 1895 - 1942

Born 19.1.1895 in Naklo
Died 20.4.1942 in Mauthausen

On 16 April 1942 the Slovenian resistance movement shot five German collaborators, among them the German mayor of Jesenice, Karl Luckmann.  As a reprisal for this action, SS Gruppenführer ... read more

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