Giovanni Bortoloso 1912 - 1945
Born 29.5.1912 in Schio
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Giovanni Bortoloso ran a book shop and stationers of the same name on the Piazzi Rossi in Schio. When he was dismissed from his army medical examination due to a handicap to his leg, he joined the ... read more
Vittorio Benzi 1927 - 1945
Born 22.3.1927 in Vinchio
Died 22.3.1945 in Gusen
Vittorio Benzi (prisoner number 115373), marked as a partisan through his participation in a mission in Mombercelli and categorised as dangerous, was arrested by the Nazi Fascists on 3 December 1944 ... read more
Josef Drahotský 1895 - 1941
Born 6.6.1895 in Všestary
Died 13.12.1941 in Mauthausen
Josef Drahotský was born on 6 June 1895 in the village of Vsestary near Hradec Králové in what is now the Czech Republic. His parents were farmers. He wanted to become a teacher ... read more
Erwin Cohn 1923 - 1941
Born 9.6.1923 in Hamburg
Died 25.8.1941 in Mauthausen
The Cohn family already lived in the Isestraße before 1933. Max Cohn (1891–1941) had attended the higher vocational school by the Holstentor gate and then studied business. With his first ... read more
David Schönberg 1898 - 1944
Born 22.12.1898 in Kraków
Died 13.12.1944 in Gusen
David Schönberg was married to Liza Schönberg née Priesel. They lived in Krakow. Their three daughters Sidonia (“Syda”), Rosa (“Lalla”) and Henriette ... read more
Rudolf Hösl 1903 - 1945
Born 15.2.1903 in Wien
Died 4.3.1945 in Hinterbrühl
Over a quarter of all Austrians deported to Mauthausen concentration camp were so-called career criminals. During the harsh early period of the camp they were its only group of prisoners, and ... read more
David Levy Kestenbaum
Born 1926 in Ťačovo / Tyachiv
Died 1945 in Gunskirchen
Kestenbaum David Levy, the youngest of eleven siblings born to Josephine Pearl Gombo and Moshe Joshua Kestenbaum, was about 19 years old when he was murdered in Gunskirchen, one of the sub-camps of ... read more
Marie Stará 1902 - 1942
Born 19.3.1902 in Praha
Died 24.10.1942 in Mauthausen
The history of the Starý family Youth and Growing Up Jaroslav Starý was born on 22 April 1891 in Sobíňov to parents Josef Starý and Josefa Stará. He trained as a ... read more
Camille Israel 1910 - 1945
Born 16.5.1910 in Luxembourg
Died 29.4.1945 in Ebensee
Camille Israel was born on 16 May 1910 in Luxembourg. He was a bookkeeper and fled on the day of the German invasion, on 10 May 1940, to France. There he lived in Montignac-sur-Vézère ... read more
Herbert Littmann 1919 - 1942
Born 25.9.1919 in Berlin
Died 3.2.1942 in Mauthausen
The photograph shows Herbert Littmann, he is working in the forge of the work village. Here he learned to be a locksmith and fine metalworker. Robert Warnars read more