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Franz Heller 1906 - 1944

Born 29.1.1906 in Birkesdorf / Düren
Died 6.4.1944 in Gusen

Franz Heller was the son of Arnold Heller (factory worker) and his wife Katharina Heller, nee Rauschen. Lothar Böling, Bertram-Wieland-Archiv für die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung ... read more

Jakub Schreiber 1894 - 1945

Born 24.3.1894 in Brzesko
Died 3.2.1945 in Gusen

Janek (Jakub) Schreiber was a middle-class businessman who had a small shop in Kraków, where he sold leather and shoe supplies. He and his cherished wife, Adela ... read more

Dino Francini 1898 - 1945

Born 2.7.1898 in Firenze
Died 17.1.1945 in Gusen

Dino Francini had lost his young wife Bianca in 1929 when she died shortly after giving birth. Their two children, a two and a half year-old boy and a thirteen day-old girl, remained with their ... read more

Peter van Pels 1926 - 1945

Born 8.11.1926 in Osnabrück
Died 10.5.1945 in Mauthausen

‘I sat down on the stairs, and we began to talk... Peter didn't say anything more about his parents; we just talked about books and about the past. Oh, he gazes at me with such warmth in his ... read more

Leon Cieślewicz 1915 - 1943

Born 10.3.1915 in Unterwalde / Jałowiec
Died 3.4.1943 in Gusen

Born in Trzuskołoń (Greater Poland, Gniezno County) on 10.03.1915. Died in Gusen (Austria) on 3.04.1943. A Polish patriot, national and Catholic activist. A member of the National Party (SN) and the C ... read more

Piotr Budzyński 1896 - 1945

Born 24.6.1896 in Kijany
Died 28.2.1945 in Gusen

Before the war, Piotr Budzynski lived at the old town square of Warsaw, Poland. He was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp from Warsaw, Poland in September 1944 during a round-up. Family: His ... read more

Juan Serrano Bruno 1913 - 1942

Born 21.7.1913 in Mengíbar
Died 3.1.1942 in Gusen

He was born on July 21, 1913, in Mengíbar (Jaén, Spain). He was a day laborer by profession and married to Petra Galán Arenas. In the Spanish Civil War, he belonged to the 24th ... read more

Nicola Serra 1918 - 1944

Born 2.7.1918 in Imperia
Died 21.11.1944 in Redl-Zipf

The Serra brothers Enrico Serra and his brother Nicola were partisans, living from 8 September 1943 as ‘rebels’ in the mountains of Imperia. Enrico was arrested, together with his ... 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

Johann Baptist Steinacker 1870 - 1944

Born 20.11.1870 in Odenheim / Östringen
Died 14.4.1944 in Mauthausen

The tailor Johann Baptist (‘Hermann’, ‘Gries’) Steinacker was born on 20 November 1870 in Odenheim (district of Karlsruhe) and later lived in Barmen and Wuppertal-Barmen. Even ... read more