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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

Karel van Bever 1897 - 1944

Born 10.11.1897 in Vilvoorde
Died 20.3.1944 in Mauthausen

Karel Jozef Lodewijk van Bever was born on 10 November 1897 as the son of Hendrik van Bever and Maria Catherina De Kerck in Vilvoorde. His father, Hendrik van Bever, was a baker and a founding member ... read more

José Porras Clemente 1916 - 1942

Born 19.3.1916 in Andújar
Died 22.3.1942 in Gusen

He was born on March 19, 1916, in Andújar (Jaén, Spain). He was a single farmer by profession. In the Spanish Civil War, he was a Spanish Republican and fought on the Extremadura ... read more

Bronisław Kowalski 1917 - 1940

Born 10.8.1917 in Wielki Łęck
Died 22.12.1940 in Gusen

Bronisław Kowalski SVD[1] was born on 10 August 1917 in Wielki Łęck in Masuria and died on 22 December 1940 in the Gusen I concentration camp. After graduating from the Small Seminary of the Steyler M ... read more

Rafael Juan Montero 1918 - 1942

Born 7.11.1918 in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo
Died 10.1.1942 in Mauthausen

He was born on 07/11/1918 in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba). Rafael was a miner, born when the mining area of his home town became one of the most important industrial centre in ... read more

Andrew Kalitka 1920 - 1944

Born 24.1.1920 in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Died 29.2.1944 in Gusen

Andrew Kalitka was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, on 23 Jan 1920, to immigrant Ukrainian parents, Dymytro and Rozalia (Levitsky) Kalitka. In 1929, Dymytro and Rozalia returned from America ... read more

Marian Reich 1892 - 1941

Born 27.5.1892 in Poznań
Died 11.2.1941 in Gusen

Marian Tomasz Reich was the son of Kordula Jadwiga Mizgalska and Carl Wilhelm Reich. He was of Polish and German decent. He graduated from a machine building school in Poznań and worked most of his ... read more

Alfredo Vezzani 1885 - 1945

Born 16.1.1885 in Firenze
Died 24.4.1945 in Mauthausen

My great-great grandfather Alfredo Vezzani was working for Breda company in those years and was taken prisoner in 1944 and died in the camp of Mauthausen. He was born in Florence 16 January 1885 ... read more

István Bognár 1928 - 1945

Born 29.5.1928 in Budapest
Died 31.1.1945 in Mauthausen

István Bognár's brother was György Bognár, who survived the Holocaust, although also incarcerated in a KZ. Holocaust Museum Los Angeles possesses a postcard written by György to Ist ... read more

Julius Baumann 1898 - 1942

Born 13.1.1898 in Stuttgart
Died 1.10.1942 in Mauthausen

A Jewish Sportsman from Stuttgart Julius Baumann was born on 20 January 1898 in Stuttgart, the son of Jewish husband and wife Heinrich Baumann and Fernanda, née Oppenheimer. He was a ... read more