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Wiktor Potarzycki 1889 - 1940

Born 9.9.1889 in Gordów
Died 12.8.1940 in Gusen

Wiktor Potarzycki was a teacher and was married to Franciszka Potarzycka, They had two daughters, Maria and Halina. Wiktor was a Polish officer and fought in First World War. He was sergeant. After ... read more

Stanislav Mareš 1888 - 1945

Born 11.11.1888 in Litovel
Died 8.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Stanislav Mareš attended the secondary modern and then grammar school in his home town of Litovel, where he passed his school leaving exam in 1908. He then began work in the town as a court ... read more

Józef Augustyniak 1905 - 1940

Born 2.1.1905 in Nieszawa
Died 26.10.1940 in Gusen

Józef Augustyniak, born in Nieszawa (Kuyavia region, Greater Poland Voivodeship) in 1905, was a Polish teacher, educator and regional activist in Wola ... read more

Roberto Lepetit 1906 - 1945

Born 29.8.1906 in Lezza
Died 4.5.1945 in Ebensee

Roberto Lepetit was a well-known Milanese businessman, the owner of the Lepetit chemical and pharmaceutical company. As an anti-Fascist, after the Italian armistice he was part of the circle around ... read more

Kurt Holger Schmahl 1910 - 1945

Born 18.1.1910 in Kopenhagen
Died 8.4.1945 in Mauthausen

In June 1933 the 23-year-old Kurt Holger Schmahl, a resident of 57 Isestraße in Hamburg, wrote to the president of the Lower Elbe State Financial Authority requesting that 35,000 Reichsmarks ... read more

Arthur de Montalembert 1911 - 1944

Born 31.7.1911 in Wezembeek-Oppem
Died 16.12.1944 in Mauthausen

Arthur de Montalembert, born on July 31, 1911 in Wezembeek-Oppem, is the son of André de Montalembert and Anne de Grunne. Mobilized on September 2, 1939 and promoted to lieutenant in December, ... read more

Marcus Bloom 1907 - 1944

Born 24.9.1907 in London
Died 6.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Captain Marcus Bloom, radio operator to the PRUNUS circuit of French Section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.). Arrested near Toulouse, France, April 1943. Paul McCue read more

Kurt Kelman 1896 - 1945

Born 6.1.1896 in Berlin
Died 29.4.1945 in Ebensee

Carpenter. Arrested on 18 February 1943. Arrived in Auschwitz on 20 February 1943. Wife: Irma Kelman, nee Schwarzenberger – fate unknown. Michael Samuels, researcher   read more

Paul Bruske 1893 - 1945

Born 5.9.1893 in Żarów
Died 12.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Paul Bruske was a father of three children living in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Kasimiera Bruske, who Paul met and married in Poland before returning to Germany. He was a tool and die maker ... read more

Peter Böhmer 1907 - 1940

Born 31.12.1907 in Eschweiler
Died 24.7.1940 in Mauthausen

Peter Böhmer was the son of Laurenz Böhmer (factory worker) and his wife Maria Magdalena Böhmer nee Lehnen. Lothar Böling, Bertram-Wieland-Archiv für die Geschichte der ... read more