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Jakob Berger 1889 - 1944

Born 18.12.1889 in Kraków
Died 20.8.1944 in Melk

Jakub Berger was my Grandfather. Taken from his family in Berlin in 1938 during the Polenaktion. He ended up in his native town, Kraków, where his wife Franja joined him. Eventually he was ... read more

Władysław Kamiński 1894 - 1944

Born 26.11.1894 in Chodorążek
Died 17.7.1944 in Mauthausen

Władysław Kamiński was born in Chodorążek near Lipno on 26. November 1894. He orphaned six children (three daughters and three sons) and widowed his wife. He was a farmer in the Ławki settl ... read more

Pietro Arnaldo Terzi 1883 - 1944

Born 20.11.1883 in Sarzana
Died 13.11.1944 in Hartheim

Pietro Arnaldo Terzi attended the L. Costa humanist grammar school in La Spezia, became an active member of the Socialist Party of Sarzana, graduated in law and moved to Aulla (Massa), where he ... read more

Max Ferk 1914 - 1945

Born 22.9.1914 in Kronenberg/Kronska Gora
Died 21.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Max was born in 1914 in the small village of Kronenberg in the northern part of Slovenia (today's Kronska Gora) above the town of Otiski Vrh near Dravograd. His father Joannes Ferk (born 1876) was ... read more

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

Bruno Sbriz 1923 - 1945

Born 17.9.1923 in San Vito al Tagliamento
Died 6.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Bruno Sbriz was enlisted in the Granatieri di Sardegna’s Regiment. After 8 September, he joined the partisan XIV Brigata Osoppo Friuli; on 6 January 1945, Bruno was arrested by the Germans at ... read more

Józef Kubica 1904 - 1941

Born 4.8.1904
Died 4.10.1941 in Gusen

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Karl Peterka 1907 - 1942

Born 27.4.1907 in Wien
Died 17.12.1942 in Mauthausen

A carpenter’s assistant, Karl Peterka lived at 26/35 Rückertgasse in Vienna’s Ottakring district. According to the People’s Court verdict of 16 December 1942 (5 H 96/42) ... read more

Christian Decker 1905 - 1943

Born 5.6.1905 in Düren
Died 25.3.1943 in Mauthausen

Christian Decker was the son of Johann Decker (unskilled worker) and Anna Sibilla Decker, nee Breuer. Lothar Böling, Bertram-Wieland-Archiv für die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung e.V., ... read more

Modest Mikołajewski 1900 - 1942

Born 20.11.1900 in Luberadz
Died 12.12.1942 in Mauthausen

My father came from a family of craftsmen, and like his own father became a blacksmith. He had two younger sisters. He married in 1926 and became the father of three children, who were eleven, eight ... read more