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Jacob Noah Finkelstein 1898 - 1945

Born 19.4.1898
Died 8.5.1945 in Wels

For more than 63 years after his liberation from Mauthausen, my father, Sol Finkelstein, was haunted by the uncertainty of what happened to his father, Jacob Noah Finkelstein. Tragically separated in ... read more

Josef Kébrt 1889 - 1944

Born 3.9.1889 in Buřany
Died 29.6.1944 in Hartheim

He worked as a weaver in Herzfeld & Fischl factory in Hradsko (near Jablonec nad Jizerou, North Bohemia). There he was arrested by the Gestapo on 8 June 1943 and was transported to the Mauthausen ... read more

Novak Oparušić 1909 - 1944

Born 7.7.1909 in Donji Petrovci
Died 25.7.1944 in Linz

Novak Oparušić was born as son of Zorka and Despot Oparušić in the village of Donji Petrovci in Vojvodina, Serbia, a little village of around 1.000 inhabitants, mostly farmers. His f ... read more

Szczepan Róziewicz 1917 - 1945

Born 7.12.1917 in Łychów
Died 3.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Szczepan Róziewicz was captured in Warsaw in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. He and my grandmother, along with my father and their neighbors, were taken out of this tenement house from their ... read more

Василий Андреевич Игумнов / Wasilij Andreewitsch Igumnow 1912 - 1944

Born 1.1.1912 in Pensa
Died 20.5.1944 in Gusen

Vasily Andreevich Igumnov was born in the village of Chekashovi Polyanki in the Insarsky district of Penza oblast into the peasant family of coppersmith and master boilermaker Andrei Petrovich ... read more

Nils Hegland 1900 - 1945

Born 14.11.1900 in Evje
Died 3.3.1945 in Melk

  Nils Hegland was born on 14 November 1900 in Evje to the north of Kristiansand. His parents were Johan Hegland, a wood merchant and sawmill owner, and his wife Inger Tonette, née ... read more

Rozsi Winkler 1921 - 1945

Born 1.2.1921 in Újpest / Budapest
Died 6.6.1945 in Mauthausen

The Hungarian Jew Rozsi Winkler was born on 2 January 1921 in Ujpest. Her parents were Lajos Winkler and Eszter Moskovitz.[1] During the war Rozsi lived in Ujpest and Budapest. In 1944, after the ... read more

Orlando Vischi 1914 - 1945

Born 9.6.1914 in Valdomino
Died 10.3.1945 in Gusen

‘I want only to keep the beautiful memories... when walking over my mountains was an adventure full of joy, when the snow was a white gift from heaven and the roll call in the schoolyard was a ... read more

Emil Kumhala 1913 - 1941

Born 26.7.1913 in Dollnstein / Dollstein
Died 22.12.1941 in Mauthausen

My grandfather Emil Kumhala lived in Brno. He had a child and a wife. He was not Jewish. He had a grocery store and sold food to everybody including Jews. That’s why they took him to ... read more

Louis Schenkkan 1915 - 1941

Born 29.1.1915 in Amsterdam
Died 14.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Louis Schenkkan was arrested during the razzia in Amsterdam on 22 February 1941 and then deported to Schoorl – Buchenwald – Mauthausen. Saskia Leune, grandniece Detailed Biography ... read more