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Ari Schwartz 1918 - 1944

Born 17.6.1918 in Bicsad / Bixad
Died 24.6.1944 in Gusen

Ari Schwartz was born in Bicsad (Bixad), Romania, to Menachem and Rosa. He was a locksmith/metalworker. He was single and prior to WWII he lived in Bicsad. Ronit Revach, relative read more

Marcel Callo 1921 - 1945

Born 6.12.1921 in Rennes
Died 19.3.1945 in Mauthausen

  Marcel Callo was born on 6 December 1921 in Rennes in France and died on 19 March 1945 in the so-called ‘infirmary camp’ by Mauthausen concentration camp, following a long period ... 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

Robert Litterer 1903 - 1945

Born 1.11.1903 in Warszawa
Died 31.3.1945 in Mauthausen

On 3 April, Harry Klauber had already been dead for three days. Two weeks he had waited for his death in the Mauthausen concentration camp, few had so longed for their last breath as him, for his ... read more

Vilém Julius Hauner 1877 - 1941

Born 28.4.1877 in Praha
Died 31.10.1941 in Mauthausen

According to the letter I received in 1973 from Johann Maršálek on behalf the Lagergemeinschaft Mauthausen, my grandfather arrived in the Mauthausen Concentration camp with a ... read more

Enrico Bracesco 1910 - 1944

Born 10.4.1910 in Monza
Died 16.8.1944 in Hartheim

Enrico, the son of Francesco Bracesco and Maria Teruzzi, was the youngest of three brothers and sisters. His family was unquestionably anti-Fascist. His parents ran a restaurant, which became a cell ... read more

Andreas Heubner 1907 - 1945

Born 7.7.1907 in Düren
Died 18.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Andreas Heubner was the son of Jakob Heubner (stoker) and Maria Gertrud Creder. Lothar Böling, Bertram-Wieland-Archiv für die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung e.V., Düren ... read more

Franz Paul Erath 1913 - 1940

Born 19.12.1913 in Dunningen
Died 11.2.1940 in Mauthausen

Franz Paul Erath came into the world in Dunningen in the district of Rottweil as the seventh of ten children, of whom five died shortly after birth. In 1923, his parents Anna and Franz Xaver moved ... 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

Stefan Antoniewski 1908 - 1941

Born 23.7.1908 in Słupca
Died 9.5.1941 in Gusen

Stefan Antoniewski was born to Ludwik and Ludwika Rucińska on 23 July 1908 in Słupca, Poland. He had five brothers. He was a teacher at an elementary school in the village Wierzchy in Poland. He was a ... read more