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Wojciech Wojcieszak 1894 - 1941

Born 19.3.1894 in Niestronno
Died 22.4.1941 in Gusen

Wojciech Wojcieszak was born on 19 March 1894 in Niestronno, Poland, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Mogilno poviat, in the Mogilno commune. His mother was called Anna Wojcieszak. The ... read more

Giovanni Bortoloso 1912 - 1945

Born 29.5.1912 in Schio
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Giovanni Bortoloso ran a book shop and stationers of the same name on the Piazzi Rossi in Schio. When he was dismissed from his army medical examination due to a handicap to his leg, he joined the ... read more

Juda Nichtern (Nuchtern) 1906 - 1945

Born 14.12.1906 in Kraków
Died 26.1.1945 in Gusen

Juda was one of 12 siblings to parents Berl and Chaja Nichtern. Chaja's maiden name of Reimer. Our family spelled the last name either „Nuchtern“ („Nüchtern“) or ... read more

Marianne Nagy 1924 - 1945

Born 22.8.1924 in Budapest
Died 5.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Marianne Nagy was just 20 years old when she died in Mauthausen. She was born on 22 August 1924 in Budapest, the second daughter of a bourgeois Jewish family. Together with her parents, Mihály ... read more

Filippo D'Agostino 1885 - 1944

Born 15.3.1885 in Gravina
Died 14.7.1944 in Hartheim

Filippo D’Agostino was a railway official. As an important politician of his time, he and his wife Rita Majerotti were involved in founding the Communist Party of Italy (Congress of Livorno). ... read more

Ola Kaare Sindre Hofmo 1905 - 1945

Born 16.4.1905 in Oslo
Died 23.1.1945 in Gusen

Ola Hofmo was a journalist by profession. When, in August 1940, the Arbeideren newspaper for which he worked was banned by the Germans, he continued to work as an editor for the underground ... read more

Сергей Алексеевич Бороздин / Sergej Alexeewitsch Borosdin 1916 - 1942

Born 1.9.1916 in Stalino / Donezk
Died 17.3.1942 in Mauthausen

Sergei Alexeevich Borozdin was born on 1 September 1916 into a working-class family in the city of Yuzovka (later Stalino, now Donetsk in Ukraine). He was Russian by nationality. In 1933 he completed ... read more

Edilio Signori 1914 - 1945

Born 14.4.1914 in Caldana
Died 22.4.1945 in Ebensee

After emigrating from Italy in flight from Mussolini’s Fascism, Egidio and Guglielma Signori settled in the mining town of Homécourt (department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) with their ... read more

Mario Minetti 1914 - 1944

Born 21.7.1914 in Ponti
Died 19.10.1944 in Gusen

My grandfather Mario Minetti (prisoner number 58994) was born in Ponti, in the province of Alessandria, into a peasant family; while still very young he moved to live with relatives in Vado Ligure ... read more

Sándor Fleischmann 1909 - 1945

Born 12.2.1909 in Šurany
Died 8.2.1945 in Gusen

Sándor was born to Aron Fleischman and his wife Filipka in 1909. He was the second child in the family of a tailor and a dressmaker. There were six children born between 1906 and 1915. Their ... read more