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Николай Валков / Nikolaj Walkow 1904 - 1943

Born 27.7.1904 in Bekowo
Died 17.4.1943 in Mauthausen

Family: wife Ekaterina Alexandrowna Murawjewa, son Alexander Nikolajewitsch Walkow Elena Makarchuk, granddaughter read more

Václav Sinkule 1905 - 1942

Born 14.1.1905 in Praha
Died 20.4.1942 in Mauthausen

Václav Sinkule was born on 14 January 1905 in Prague, the son of a railway worker. He attended the commercial high school and in his free time took an interest in foreign languages, music, ... read more

Andrej Manfreda 1886 - 1943

Born 19.2.1886 in Polubino / Poljubinj
Died 19.12.1943 in Gusen

He was born in Poljubinj 18, Slovenia. His parents were Andrej Manfreda from Poljubinjske Ravne 60 and Marija Zalašček from Poljubinj 18. Andrej Manfreda (1886) married on 7 May 1913 with ... read more

Franz Pfau 1910 - 1940

Born 1.1.1910 in Staad bei Rohrschach
Died 7.5.1940 in Mauthausen

Franz Pfau was born on 1 January 1910 in Staad bei Rohrschach (Switzerland). A unmarried miner whose last known address was his mother’s house in Ravensburg, he was arrested in April 1938 on ... read more

Vilmos Nemes 1889 - 1945

Born 27.5.1889 in Nemeske
Died 6.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Vilmos Nemes (born Hausner) was the eighth of 13 children of David and Karolin Hausner (nee Weisz). He was born on 27 May 1889 in the village of Nemeske, Somogy County, Hungary. In the early ... read more

Иван Андреевич Казимиров / Iwan Andreewitsch Kasimirow

Born 1914 in Suchaja Elan
Died 9.4.1942 in Mauthausen

He was born in the Voronezh Governorate of the Russian Empire, in the village of Suchaja Elan on September 28, 1914. He went to war in 1941. He was the father of four children: Anatoly, Raisa, ... read more

Karel Welzel 1901 - 1941

Born 10.4.1901 in Náchod
Died 17.12.1941 in Mauthausen

Together with his younger brother František (born 1903), Karel Welzel was co-owner of the shipping company Sebastian Welzel und Söhne. They owned a fuel depot next to the main station in ... read more

Jan van der Burg 1892 - 1945

Born 3.2.1892 in Maassluis
Died 12.2.1945 in Melk

Jan van der Burg was a political prisoner (“Schutzhäftling”), who, as a member of the Dutch “Geuzen” resistance group, was arrested on 16 January 1941, and incarcerated ... read more

Jan Zasada 1897 - 1941

Born 25.9.1897 in Podębice
Died 26.8.1941 in Gusen

My grandfather Jan Zasada was born in Podębice. He lived in Grójec and in Kutno where he was arrested and transferred through Inowrocław to Mauthausen/Gusen. He was left-wing local politician i ... read more

Юрий Анатольевич Бабошин / Jurij Anatolijewitsch Baboschin

Born 24.12.1920 in Weliki Ustjug / Вели́кий У́стюг
Died 1944 in Mauthausen

The Soldier's Story My grandfather's elder brother, Yuri Anatolievich Baboshin (Jurij Anatolijewitsch Baboschin), was born on December 24, 1920, in Veliky Ustyug, Vologda Region, USSR. In ... read more