Karl Bernotat 1887 - 1943
Born 13.2.1887 in Mittel-Joddup, Kreis Goldap
Died 5.1.1943 in Mauthausen
Karl Friedrich Bernotat was born on 13 February 1887 in Mittel-Joddup, Kreis Goldap (former East Prussia, now Poland). Bernotat, who moved to Berlin in 1916 and pretended to be a wealthy ... read more
Филипп Георгиевич Остриков / Filipp Georgiewitsch Ostrikow 1901 - 1942
Born 21.1.1901 in Petropawlowsk
Died 9.5.1942 in Mauthausen
Filipp Georgievich Ostrikov was born on 21 January 1901 in Petropavlovsk into a poor peasant family of four children: three sons and a daughter. His childhood was marked by deprivation. After the ... read more
Antonio Rigoni 1883 - 1945
Born 4.2.1883 in Asiago
Died 6.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Antonio Domenico Rigoni was a priest. Fabrizio Scabio (2018) read more
Marcel Lacroix 1926 - 1945
Born 6.7.1926 in Pont-à-Mousson
Died 30.3.1945 in Gusen
Marcel Lacroix, born in 1926, and Stéphane Lewandowski, born in 1925, are among the few Frenchmen to be deported to Mauthausen only after they had experienced the heady feeling of having ... read more
Quinto Perona 1893 - 1944
Born 9.6.1893 in Biella
Died 19.7.1944 in Gusen
In stark defiance of the regime, he experienced multiple detentions in Turin, where he lived with his family. His strong opposition to the fascist rule ultimately resulted in his deportation at the ... read more
Joan Plans Illa 1918 - 1942
Born 11.9.1918 in Barcelona
Died 2.2.1942 in Hartheim
Joan Plans Illa lived in Barcelona in the neighbourhood of Sant Andreu. Joan’s parents were called Andreu Plans and Coloma Illa. Ricard Brustenga Guàrdia(My grandparents were friends ... read more
Петр Иванович Карев / Petr Iwanowitsch Karew 1887 - 1944
Born 29.6.1887 in Talabsk / Salit
Died 3.8.1944 in Hartheim
Petr Ivanovich Karev was born on 29 June 1887. He lived with his family on Talabsk Island in Lake Pskov. A fisherman by profession, he wove nets for catching fish. In 1941 he was deported to the ... 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
Władysław Pawlas 1908 - 1940
Born 3.3.1908 in Sucha Góra
Died 28.8.1940 in Gusen
Władysław Pawlas was a Polish Protestant-Lutheran pastor. He came from a family of farmers. In 1926 he completed his education at the Polish Słowacki grammar school in Orlowa and began his studies at ... read more
Vicente Tomás Mogino 1910 - 1942
Born 15.9.1910 in Muro de Alcoy
Died 6.1.1942 in Gusen
Secretary of the Revolutionary Committee of Defense (U.G.T. – P.C.E – I.R). However, before that, he was elected a town hall member. He was also a comptroller in the elections to deputies ... read more
