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Àngel Artola Casals 1903 - 1941

Born 2.8.1903 in Sant Hilari Sacalm
Died 12.8.1941 in Gusen

Àngel Artola Casals was a Catalan teacher and victim of Nazism, born on August 2, 1903 in Sant Hilari Sacalm (region of La Selva, Girona) and died on August 12, 1941 in the Gusen concentration ... read more

Tibor Mauskopf 1929 - 1945

Born 2.4.1929 in Nitra
Died 14.3.1945 in Ebensee

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Vladislav Fiala 1914 - 1944

Born 19.3.1914 in Myslibořice
Died 27.9.1944 in Mauthausen

  Vladislav Fiala was born on 19 March 1914 in Myslibořice. After finishing primary school he began an apprenticeship as a baker. He did his military service from 1935 to 1937 with the 24th ... read more

Manuel Lucas Martínez 1919 - 1942

Born 3.12.1919 in Alhama de Almería
Died 26.1.1942 in Gusen

Manuel Lucas Martínez was born in Alhama de Almería on 3 December 1919. At the young age of 17, he was enlisted in the army voluntarily to defend the legitimate government of the ... read more

Renato Pedrini 1913 - 1945

Born 22.11.1913 in Torino
Died 9.4.1945 in Mauthausen

A radiologist by profession, Renato Pedrini moved from Turin to La Spezia, where his wife lived, and bought a photographic supplies shop in the city’s Migliarina district, going on to become a ... read more

Ceferino Ramírez Rey 1911 - 1941

Born 13.5.1911 in Medina de las Torres
Died 23.12.1941 in Gusen

Ceferino Ramírez Rey, born in Medina de las Torres (Badajoz-Spain), 13 May 1911. Spanish republican who fought for freedom both in Spain and in Europe. Deported at the age of 29 years ... read more

Alfred Toczek 1919 - 1941

Born 6.8.1919 in Köln
Died 16.9.1941 in Mauthausen

Alfred Toczek was born on 6 August 1919 in Cologne and died in Mauthausen on 16 September 1941.  Alfred's younger brothers were identical twins Hans and Fritz (later John and Fred) Toczek. They ... read more

Paul Giroud Trouillet 1926 - 1945

Born 21.11.1926 in Chambéry
Died 22.4.1945 in Gusen

Paul Giroud Trouillet was the third of six children. His father fought in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and died on 9 May 1940, leaving behind a widow with six children aged five, ten, ... read more

Ján Bulík 1897 - 1942

Born 1.1.1897 in Kovačica
Died 30.1.1942 in Mauthausen

Ján Bulík came from a patriotic peasant family of Slovakian settlers in the Serbian region of the Banat. After finishing primary school he attended the Serbian grammar school in Novi ... read more

Alois Roth 1894 - 1945

Born 8.12.1894 in Obergünzburg
Died 22.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Alois (Aloisius) Roth, born on 8 December 1894 in Obergünzburg, came from a long-established farming and innkeeping family. Alois Roth, the fourth child, grew up with his six siblings in the ... read more