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Wilhelm Roser 1905 - 1943

Born 4.7.1905 in Nürnberg
Died 20.1.1943 in Steyr

Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Roser was the third of the four children of Johann Andreas Roser and Luise Roser, née Manold. His father is listed in the baptismal register of Nuremberg’s ... read more

Gregor Kochricht 1905 - 1945

Born 3.3.1905 in Odessa / Odesa
Died 12.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Gregor (Grégoire, Grischa, Grigory) Kochricht, Born 3 March 1905 in Odessa, now Ukraine, but Russian Tsarist empire at that time. 1905 was a year of bloody pogroms and Grischa's father ... read more

Erwin Cohn 1923 - 1941

Born 9.6.1923 in Hamburg
Died 25.8.1941 in Mauthausen

The Cohn family already lived in the Isestraße before 1933. Max Cohn (1891–1941) had attended the higher vocational school by the Holstentor gate and then studied business. With his first ... read more

Leman Mok 1912 - 1942

Born 23.10.1912 in Amsterdam
Died 7.7.1942 in Mauthausen

Mok Leman was born in Amsterdam on the 23 October 1912.He had two sisters, Elisheva who was two years older than him and Yehudit who was three years younger than him.In 1922, when he was ten years ... read more

David Levy Kestenbaum

Born 1926 in Ťačovo / Tyachiv
Died 1945 in Gunskirchen

Kestenbaum David Levy, the youngest of eleven siblings born to Josephine Pearl Gombo and Moshe Joshua Kestenbaum, was about 19 years old when he was murdered in Gunskirchen, one of the sub-camps of ... read more

Sándor Rátkai

Born 1869 in Subotica
Died .5.1945 in Mauthausen

Sándor Rátkai, born 1869 in Szabadka/ Subotica (current day Serbia) Died in May 1945, in Mauthausen Occupation: opera and operetta singer After several years of working as a singer, ... read more

Константин Алексеевич Алисенок / Konstantin Alexeewitsch Alisenok 1901 - 1944

Born 2.1.1901 in Kemeschowzy
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Konstantin Alexeevich Alisenok was born on 2 January 1901 into a peasant family in the village of Kemeshevtsy near Minsk. His father was Belorussian, his mother Sofia (Zosya), Polish. There were four ... read more

Rudolf Hösl 1903 - 1945

Born 15.2.1903 in Wien
Died 4.3.1945 in Hinterbrühl

  Over a quarter of all Austrians deported to Mauthausen concentration camp were so-called career criminals. During the harsh early period of the camp they were its only group of prisoners, and ... read more

Hans Friedemann 1907 - 1943

Born 17.10.1907 in Kastellaun
Died 12.1.1943 in Gusen

‘Hansi’, as our mother called her brother Hans Friedemann, was only mentioned in passing in the family. Things like, ‘he was a kleptomaniac, went round in women’s ... read more

Добривоје Маринковић / Dobrivoje Marinković 1889 - 1942

Born 23.10.1889 in Trnjane
Died 10.12.1942 in Gusen

Dobrivoje Marinković was born on 23 October 1889 as the fourth child of Leposava and Petar Marinković in the villace of Trnjane near Aleksinac. In 1909 he completed training as a theology teacher in P ... read more