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Marzell Leeb 1893 - 1940

Born 1.1.1893 in Gnesau
Died 1.11.1940 in Gusen

Marzell Leeb was the son of the carpenter Johann Leeb and his wife Maria. From 1905 Leeb attended the grammar school in Bolzano, later and k.k. State Upper Grammar School in Klagenfurt, before being ... read more

Kaare Moursund 1895 - 1944

Born 27.3.1895 in Tromsø
Died 4.12.1944 in Melk

Kaare Moursund was born on 27 March 1895 in Tromsø as the fourth child of the lawyer and bank director Carl Anton Moursund and his wife Theodora Giæver. He trained as a ship’s ... read more

Emile Ferdinand Lansberg 1921 - 1941

Born 27.6.1921 in Den Haag
Died 13.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Emile Ferdinand was born on June 27th, 1921 in The Hague. My mother told me he was a handsome boy, who loved to play guitar. He was an apprentice-cook in The Hague. On a Saturday afternoon, February ... read more

René Lhuillier 1925 - 1944

Born 20.4.1925 in Pexonne
Died 23.12.1944 in Melk

René Lhuillier was born on 20 April 1925 in Pexonne, Lorraine, France. He was a baker by trade. He and his father were among the 112 hostages who were captured during the raid on Sunday, 27 ... read more

Amedeo Tamussin 1925 - 1945

Born 24.8.1925 in Collina
Died 30.3.1945 in St. Aegyd

As a young resistance fighter, my brother Amedeo joined the Brigate Garibaldi in Carnic Friuli. He did so in the first place to fight for the independence of his homeland, but also to fight against ... read more

Leopold Skoupý 1882 - 1941

Born 15.11.1882 in Šebrov
Died 10.12.1941 in Mauthausen

He was mayor of the village Šebrov, a Nazi Resistance fighter in Brno, in the Czech Republic, a farmer and a tradesman. Married to Hedvika Skoupá. They had a daughter, Josefa ... 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

Claus Martini Lehland 1904 - 1945

Born 13.11.1904 in Grimstad
Died 2.3.1945 in Melk

Claus Martini Lehland from Grimstad in Sørlandet (Southern Norway) was born on 13 November 1904. He was the son of a ship’s captain, Kristen Lehland, and the town’s first female ... read more

Николай Иванович Кононенко / Nikolaj Iwanowitsch Kononenko 1895 - 1944

Born 28.4.1895 in Belopolje
Died 7.10.1944 in Mauthausen

Nikolai Ivanovich Kononenko was born on 28 April 1895 in the town of Belopolye (Bilopillya) in the Kharkov (Karkhiv) oblast. After finishing secondary school, he studied medicine until 1920 at ... read more

Tadeusz Tyrna 1920 - 1940

Born 27.8.1920 in Brzeszcze
Died 26.11.1940 in Gusen

Tadeusz Tyrna was the eldest child of Anna and Faustyn Tyrna. He had two sisters, Czesława and Helene – my grandmother. He grew up in a brick house on one of the streets in Brzeszcze, a village ... read more