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Paweł Kaleta 1897 - 1940

Born 4.1.1897 in Puńców
Died 7.11.1940 in Gusen

Paweł Kaleta (born on 4 January 1897 in Puńców, died on 7 November 1940 in KL Mauthausen-Gusen) - Polish journalist, activist of the peasant movement in Cieszyn Silesia. Initially, he was a m ... read more

Luigi Briani 1900 - 1944

Born 24.1.1900 in Desio
Died 17.10.1944 in Gusen

Crane operator at the Breda works. Picked up from his apartment by the Fascist militia on 12 April 1944 for participating in the Breda strikes and subsequently taken to the following jails and ... read more

Felicjan Murawski 1909 - 1941

Born 1.8.1909 in Gaj
Died 21.9.1941 in Hartheim

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Eugen Prötzel 1915 - 1940

Born 7.7.1915 in Bad Cannstatt
Died 17.2.1940 in Mauthausen

Eugen Prötzel was born on 7 July 1915 in Cannstatt near Stuttgart. His father, Hermann Prötzel, was a mechanic by trade and in 1914 had married Eugen’s mother, his third wife. Eugen ... 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

Maurycy Warenhaupt 1895 - 1944

Born 16.3.1895 in Okocim
Died 27.12.1944 in Mauthausen

Maurycy was a farmer and the son of David Steinlauf and Mindel, nee Warenhaupt. Richard Mintz, related through marriage   Sources: Birth record - listed as Mojzesz Warenhaupt (1895  ... read more

Friedrich Lehre 1895 - 1943

Born 27.2.1895 in Nagold
Died 4.1.1943 in Mauthausen

Son of Gottlob Christoph Friedrich Lehre (1860-1925) and Elisabetha Katharina (Schuster) Lehre (1867-1932). Tom Eisenhardt, seventh cousin read more

Abraham Morpurgo 1901 - 1945

Born 27.3.1901 in Amsterdam
Died 1.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Abraham Morpurgo was my grandfather. The family lived a comfortable life in Amsterdam before the war. My grandfather was the owner of a retail and wholesale business dealing in household goods. The ... read more

Alexander Zisha Grosz 1897 - 1945

Born 22.5.1897 in Zemplénagárd
Died 28.4.1945 in Auf dem Todesmarsch nach Gunskirchen

Alexander Zisha Grosz was born on 22 May 1897 in Zemplénagárd, a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary. Alexander was the eldest of three children ... read more

Jan Kowalski 1897 - 1945

Born 28.9.1897 in Przysucha
Died 27.1.1945 in Gusen

Jan Kowalski was born in Przysucha in Poland. He moved to Warsaw with his girlfriend Bronisława (maiden name Pawlik) from Pomykow. They married and lived at Powisle district of Warsaw, at 8 Browarna ... read more