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Marco Ciocchini 1925 - 1945

Born 11.3.1925 in Talamona
Died 30.3.1945 in Gusen

Marco, son of Giovanni and Ernesta Spini, was born in Talamona (SO), Northern Italy, on 11 March 1925. He grows up in a happy farming family with many brothers and sisters. In the 1940s families in ... read more

Sylwester Bukowski 1907 - 1942

Born 28.12.1907 in Środa
Died 30.12.1942 in Gusen

Sylwester Bukowski was a radio technician at the Radio Poznań and was arrested in Poznań in 1939. Piotr Bajdek, great-grandson read more

Emilie Baumanová 1916 - 1942

Born 17.2.1916 in Horoušany u Prahy
Died 24.10.1942 in Mauthausen

History of the Bauman Family Břetislav Bauman was born on 3 December 1905 and was the son of Jan and Anna Bauman. In 1911 he started to attend the local mixed primary school, which had two ... 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

Richard Franke 1906 - 1943

Born 20.1.1906 in Meerane
Died 18.1.1943 in Gusen

When the new Reich Minister of Justice, Otto Georg Thierack, took up his post in late summer 1942, he was determined to reorganise the German justice system. One of the plans he had in mind was not ... read more

Григорий Швецов / Grigorij Schwezow 1910 - 1945

Born 27.11.1910 in Morschansk
Died 20.4.1945 in Gusen

Born in Morshansk, Tambov Governorate (Oblast), Russia. Worked as agricultural machinery locksmith, was conscripted on 28 July 1941. Served in the rank of junior lieutenant (unterleutnant) in 1046th ... read more

Jacob Polak 1913 - 1941

Born 16.9.1913 in Amsterdam
Died 18.12.1941 in Mauthausen

Japie Polak, the oldest of Liepman Polak and Roosje Spanjar’s seven sons, grew up at 89 Rapenburgerstraat in Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter. Originally his father had been a diamond cutter ... read more

Константин Алексеевич Алисенок / Konstantin Alexeewitsch Alisenok 1901 - 1944

Born 2.1.1901 in Kemeschowzy
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Konstantin Alexeevich Alisenok was born on 2 January 1901 into a peasant family in the village of Kemeshevtsy near Minsk. His father was Belorussian, his mother Sofia (Zosya), Polish. There were four ... read more

Ernő Winkler 1894 - 1944

Born 20.1.1894
Died 10.7.1944 in Mauthausen

Ernő Winkler was the chief rabbi of Nagykanizsa, Hungary between 1919 and 1944. He was born in Újpest on 20 January 1894 (instead of 1899). read more

Eustachiusz Mikołajewski 1913 - 1941

Born 1.9.1913 in Poznań
Died 15.3.1941 in Gusen

Eustachy Mikołajewski was a son of Józef and Franciszka Mikołajewski. He graduated from the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan. Before the Second World War began, Eustachy was employed as ... read more