Franz Heller 1906 - 1944
Born 29.1.1906 in Birkesdorf / Düren
Died 6.4.1944 in Gusen
Franz Heller was the son of Arnold Heller (factory worker) and his wife Katharina Heller, nee Rauschen. Lothar Böling, Bertram-Wieland-Archiv für die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung ... read more
Jakub Schreiber 1894 - 1945
Born 24.3.1894 in Brzesko
Died 3.2.1945 in Gusen
Janek (Jakub) Schreiber was a middle-class businessman who had a small shop in Kraków, where he sold leather and shoe supplies. He and his cherished wife, Adela ... read more
Dino Francini 1898 - 1945
Born 2.7.1898 in Firenze
Died 17.1.1945 in Gusen
Dino Francini had lost his young wife Bianca in 1929 when she died shortly after giving birth. Their two children, a two and a half year-old boy and a thirteen day-old girl, remained with their ... read more
Peter van Pels 1926 - 1945
Born 8.11.1926 in Osnabrück
Died 10.5.1945 in Mauthausen
‘I sat down on the stairs, and we began to talk... Peter didn't say anything more about his parents; we just talked about books and about the past. Oh, he gazes at me with such warmth in his ... read more
Leon Cieślewicz 1915 - 1943
Born 10.3.1915 in Unterwalde / Jałowiec
Died 3.4.1943 in Gusen
Born in Trzuskołoń (Greater Poland, Gniezno County) on 10.03.1915. Died in Gusen (Austria) on 3.04.1943. A Polish patriot, national and Catholic activist. A member of the National Party (SN) and the C ... read more
Piotr Budzyński 1896 - 1945
Born 24.6.1896 in Kijany
Died 28.2.1945 in Gusen
Before the war, Piotr Budzynski lived at the old town square of Warsaw, Poland. He was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp from Warsaw, Poland in September 1944 during a round-up. Family: His ... read more
Juan Serrano Bruno 1913 - 1942
Born 21.7.1913 in Mengíbar
Died 3.1.1942 in Gusen
He was born on July 21, 1913, in Mengíbar (Jaén, Spain). He was a day laborer by profession and married to Petra Galán Arenas. In the Spanish Civil War, he belonged to the 24th ... read more
Nicola Serra 1918 - 1944
Born 2.7.1918 in Imperia
Died 21.11.1944 in Redl-Zipf
The Serra brothers Enrico Serra and his brother Nicola were partisans, living from 8 September 1943 as ‘rebels’ in the mountains of Imperia. Enrico was arrested, together with his ... read more
Szczepan Róziewicz 1917 - 1945
Born 7.12.1917 in Łychów
Died 3.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Szczepan Róziewicz was captured in Warsaw in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. He and my grandmother, along with my father and their neighbors, were taken out of this tenement house from their ... read more
Johann Baptist Steinacker 1870 - 1944
Born 20.11.1870 in Odenheim / Östringen
Died 14.4.1944 in Mauthausen
The tailor Johann Baptist (‘Hermann’, ‘Gries’) Steinacker was born on 20 November 1870 in Odenheim (district of Karlsruhe) and later lived in Barmen and Wuppertal-Barmen. Even ... read more
