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Andrzej Piechota 1886 - 1941

Born 19.1.1886 in Sokołów
Died 6.2.1941 in Gusen

Andrzej Piechota was born into a farming family on 19 January 1886 in Sokołow in the Turek district. He was educated at the religious college in Włockławek. From 1909 onwards, Andrzej Piechota worked ... read more

Josef Teufl 1904 - 1945

Born 23.11.1904 in Wien
Died 28.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Josef Teufl was born on 24 November 1904 in Vienna. He was the illegitimate son of a music teacher and a nurse. After attending primary and secondary school, Teufl was apprenticed as a metal worker ... read more

August Kraft 1886 - 1940

Born 13.10.1886 in Kiöwen / Kijewo
Died 1.2.1940 in Mauthausen

August Kraft (or Krafzig) was born on 13 October 1886 in Kiöwen (today’s Kijewo). When exactly or why he came to Vienna is not known. What is certain is that he was already in Vienna by ... read more

Erich Fabian 1898 - 1945

Born 8.9.1898 in Danzig
Died 31.1.1945 in Mauthausen

Erich Fabian, son of Julius Fabian and Hannchen Planter-Fabian. They were sent to Theresienstadt from Berlin on August 27, 1942. Julius died in the camp on November 30, 1942, Hannchen died on January ... read more

Piotr Krawiec 1897 - 1942

Born 1.6.1897 in Galew
Died 6.1.1942 in Gusen

He lived in Poniec. Father of six children, the last of whom was born when Piotr was already in the camp. Previously, he lived in Gorzyce, where he worked in a bakery. Then he bought a house and ... read more

Kurt Holger Schmahl 1910 - 1945

Born 18.1.1910 in Kopenhagen
Died 8.4.1945 in Mauthausen

In June 1933 the 23-year-old Kurt Holger Schmahl, a resident of 57 Isestraße in Hamburg, wrote to the president of the Lower Elbe State Financial Authority requesting that 35,000 Reichsmarks ... read more

Jakob Berger 1889 - 1944

Born 18.12.1889 in Kraków
Died 20.8.1944 in Melk

Jakub Berger was my Grandfather. Taken from his family in Berlin in 1938 during the Polenaktion. He ended up in his native town, Kraków, where his wife Franja joined him. Eventually he was ... read more

Marcin Wasyluk 1902 - 1944

Born 7.10.1902 in Mokrany Stare
Died 25.12.1944 in Melk

Marcin Wasyluk was the father of Marcin Wasyluk, a prisoner at the Mauthausen camp, who died on 17 June 1945.Ryszard Wasyluk, nephew (son of his brother) read more

Wacław Rymarowicz 1915 - 1944

Born 24.9.1915 in Wielany
Died 15.12.1944 in Hartheim

My grandfather Jozef Stanisław Rymarowicz lost two of his brothers in World War II, Wacław and Kazimierz (Flossenbürg). The family was from Wielany, a small village in Kramsk, Poland. We will n ... read more

Franciszek Szczeszak 1894 - 1943

Born 6.10.1894 in Markowice
Died 21.1.1943 in Mauthausen

Franciszek Szczeszak was born in Markowice near Krerowo as the son of the shoemaker Marcin (Martin) Szczeszak and his wife Elisabeth (nee Kaczmarek).  Aurelia Bartoszek Source:Civil Registry ... read more