Wilmos Wolf Weiss 1895 - 1945
Born 23.4.1895 in Rónafalu / Schboriwzi
Died 22.5.1945 in Hörsching
The town in which I was born was Nagyszőllős.[1] It was in Czechoslovakia, when I was born, and then became Hungary in 1939. I was a very happy and somewhat innocent and naïve boy. I lived in a l ... read more
Lucien Bunel 1900 - 1945
Born 29.1.1900 in Barentin
Died 2.6.1945 in Linz
‘Goodbye, Children.’ Lucien Bunel, or Father Jacques as he was know by everybody, was a Carmelite priest and the director of the Petit Collège des Carmes in Avon, near ... 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
Guglielmo Steiner 1909 - 1945
Born 13.5.1909 in Milano
Died 27.2.1945 in Ebensee
Mino Steiner was the son of Emerico Steiner, a Milanese industrialist of Bohemian origin, and Fosca Titta, the sister of the baritone Titta Ruffo; he was the nephew of Giacomo Matteotti and the ... 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
Adolfo Lozano Olazabal 1897 - 1941
Born 27.9.1897 in Villabona
Died 7.11.1941 in Gusen
Adolfo Lozano Olazabal died on 7 November 1941 in the Mauthausen/Gusen extermination camp. ‘[T]hey were defeated by the Francoist army and fled into exile in fear of repression. Of all the ... read more
Ludwig Stepanik 1918 - 1944
Born 26.10.1918 in Wien
Died 21.6.1944 in Klagenfurt
In today’s Khevenhüller Barracks in the Klagenfurt district of Lendorf, from 19 November 1943 to 8 May 1945 there existed a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp. The concentration camp ... read more
Janusz Wasyluk 1929 - 1945
Born 20.8.1929 in Warszawa
Died 17.6.1945 in Gusen
Janusz Wasyluk was the son of Marcin Wasyluk, prisoner of the Mauthausen camp who died on 25 December 1944. Ryszard Wasyluk, cousin (son of his father's brother) 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
Ermanno Calore 1897 - 1944
Born 21.2.1897 in Padova
Died 10.10.1944 in Hartheim
Ermanno was “arrested” and documented as “Schutzhäftling” (protective custody) for being anti-Nazi. He was held captive at Ebensee and at Mauthausen concentration camp ... read more
