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Jan Florian 1897 - 1942

Born 24.11.1897 in Brno
Died 7.5.1942 in Mauthausen

Jan Florian attended the First Czech State Grammar School in Brno. After gaining his school leaving certificate he was called up to the Austro-Hungarian army and fought on the Italian front in the ... read more

Michel Villeraud 1885 - 1943

Born 2.5.1885 in Chézy
Died 20.5.1943 in Mauthausen

Michel Villeraud was born on 2 May 1885 at his parents’ home in Chézy, Allier, in France. His father Gabriel and mother Leocadia, née Marciau, were farmers. On 19 October 1912 he ... read more

Jan Paweł Muchliński 1901 - 1942

Born 22.6.1901 in Dębogórze
Died 30.6.1942 in Gusen

Jan Paweł Muchliński was born in 1901 in Dębogórze in the municipality of Kościerzyna-Pomorze, the son of Anton Ignac, a landowner, and Ewa, née Ossowska, from Lubiszyn-Pomorze. At 16 he ... read more

Jan Zalewski 1896 - 1945

Born 17.1.1896 in Warszawa
Died 17.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Before the war, Jan Zalewski and his family lived at 19 Rybaki Street in Warsaw. He had a taxi company which was seized in September 1939. Later he founded a horse-drawn carriage company, where his ... read more

Wojciech Wojcieszak 1894 - 1941

Born 19.3.1894 in Niestronno
Died 22.4.1941 in Gusen

Wojciech Wojcieszak was born on 19 March 1894 in Niestronno, Poland, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Mogilno poviat, in the Mogilno commune. His mother was called Anna Wojcieszak. The ... read more

Robert Pluta 1895 - 1942

Born 25.5.1895 in Nowa Wieś
Died 18.3.1942 in Gusen

Robert Pluta is remembered on the Pluta family grave at Hampstead Cemetery in London: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/216171604/robert-pluta   read more

Ludwig Ferneböck 1882 - 1942

Born 7.7.1882 in Wien
Died 16.12.1942 in Mauthausen

The little I know of my great uncle I picked up at home or found out a couple of years ago through documents held at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. They also have the two or three ... read more

Franciszek Szczeszak 1894 - 1943

Born 6.10.1894 in Markowice
Died 21.1.1943 in Mauthausen

Franciszek Szczeszak was born in Markowice near Krerowo as the son of the shoemaker Marcin (Martin) Szczeszak and his wife Elisabeth (nee Kaczmarek).  Aurelia Bartoszek Source:Civil Registry ... read more

Pierre Déjean 1912 - 1944

Born 16.7.1912 in Auch
Died 18.8.1944 in Hartheim

Born in Auch, France, in 1912, Pierre Déjean was the eldest of 4 children. At the age of 10, he joined the Éclaireurs de France, lay scouts in which he distinguished himself throughout ... read more

Josep Sariñena Esparel 1917 - 1942

Born 29.8.1917 in Barcelona
Died 30.7.1942 in Gusen

In recent years – both through our research work and through contact with relatives of victims of the National Socialist regime – we have become witnesses to genuine family dramas of the ... read more