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Josep Catafau Rabadà 1914 - 1941

Born 7.9.1914 in Caldes de Montbui
Died 22.11.1941 in Gusen

Born on 7 September 1914 in Caldes de Montbui, son of Josep Catafau and Maria Rabadà Grimau. He had four siblings: Jaume, Miquel, Maria and Frederic. He worked as a driver and he was single. ... read more

Johann Wisiorek 1891 - 1945

Born 19.9.1891 in Kopciowice
Died 2.5.1945 in Ebensee

Johann Wisiorek was the father of Cecylia Wisiorek. Cecylia was killed in Auschwitz – she was sentenced for publishing a newspaper called Braciom na otuchę. Her father was sent to Ebensee ... read more

Franz Josef Messner 1896 - 1945

Born 8.12.1896 in Brixlegg
Died 23.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Messner became director or the Semperit Works in Vienna in 1937 and after 1938 maintained close links to the resistance group centred around Heinrich Maier and Walter Caldonazzi. From 1942 onwards, ... read more

Ибраш Крутаевич Кунтаев / Ibrasch Krutaewitsch Kuntaew 1907 - 1944

Born 25.1.1907 in Krutaya
Died 7.7.1944 in Hartheim

  Ibrash Kuntaev was born on 25 January 1907 in Krutaya, a village in the Kamensk region of West Kazakhstan. He had two brothers. However, his parents and the middle of the three brothers died ... 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

Aleksander Dobrowolski 1888 - 1940

Born 14.2.1888 in Warszawa
Died 19.12.1940 in Gusen

Catholic, Engineer, Polish Nationalist. Sons Tadeusz Dobrowolski and Zbigniew Dobrowolski, daughter “Lala” Dobrowolski. Son TadeusDobrowolski is thought to have been killed in Polish ... read more

Emanuel Oleś 1896 - 1941

Born 9.7.1896 in Gotartowice
Died 18.8.1941 in Hartheim

Thanks to my aunt, the last surviving daughter of my great-grandfather Emanuel, I was able to learn something about the history of my family. Keeping the memory of our deceased family members alive ... read more

Erwin Cohn 1923 - 1941

Born 9.6.1923 in Hamburg
Died 25.8.1941 in Mauthausen

The Cohn family already lived in the Isestraße before 1933. Max Cohn (1891–1941) had attended the higher vocational school by the Holstentor gate and then studied business. With his first ... read more

Giuseppe Vidale 1901 - 1945

Born 22.12.1901 in Schio
Died 10.2.1945 in Mauthausen

The son of Giovanni Battista Vidale and Celestina Lighezzolo worked as an electrician in a senior position at the Lanificio Rossi woollen mill. He approached his work with great passion and ... read more

Antonio Ruedas Gómez 1905 - 1941

Born 5.6.1905 in Cuevas del Almanzora
Died 29.7.1941 in Gusen

He was married to Rufina Gomez Perez and they lived in Barcelona with their six children, Mariana, Tomas, Francisca, Jose, Gabriela and Juan. He left his home and his family when the Francoist ... read more