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Tadeusz Kowalczyk 1901 - 1940

Born 14.10.1901 in Wadowice
Died 14.10.1940 in Gusen

Tadeusz Kowalczyk was born on October 14, 1901, in Wadowice. He had three siblings. In 1918, while a fifth-year student at a high school in Przemyśl, he volunteered for the Polish Army. He was ... read more

Józef Buchna 1896 - 1941

Born 30.7.1896 in Kęty
Died 27.9.1941 in Gusen

Josef Buchna (train conductor), born in Großkatz (today Kęty), district Neustadt, West Prussia, was the son of Emil Buchna and his wife Juliane Buchna, nee Wolschen. Lothar Böling, ... read more

Antonín Poláček 1900 - 1942

Born 13.1.1900 in Praha
Died 30.4.1942 in Mauthausen

My uncle Antonin Poláček was born in Prague, Nusle. He was a carpenter and worked at the Ringhoffer / Tatra in Smíchov, Prague. He was married (from 1929) with Anna ... read more

Chaskiel Kuśmierski 1924 - 1945

Born 11.4.1924 in Łódź
Died 19.3.1945 in Ebensee

Chaskiel Kuśmierski was the son of Szyja Kuśmierski, a weaver originally from Kaluszyn, and Itta (nee Gilbart) Kuśmierski. They lived in Łódź and Chaskiel had two younger siblings, also born in ... read more

Vladimír Bergauer 1898 - 1942

Born 18.9.1898 in Písek
Died 24.10.1942 in Mauthausen

Vladimír Bergauer was born the son of a pharmacist. He was of Czech nationality and Roman Catholic faith. In 1917 he completed his secondary education at a grammar school in Písek and ... read more

Vilmos Nemes 1889 - 1945

Born 27.5.1889 in Nemeske
Died 6.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Vilmos Nemes (born Hausner) was the eighth of 13 children of David and Karolin Hausner (nee Weisz). He was born on 27 May 1889 in the village of Nemeske, Somogy County, Hungary. In the early ... read more

Albin Kisiel 1905 - 1942

Born 17.2.1905 in Przemyśl
Died 18.10.1942 in Gusen

Arrested in month of October 1939 in Dąbrówka Wielka (today district Piekary Śląskie) where he was a school director and teacher. Wacław Bylina, grandson read more

Viktor Siuda 1902 - 1941

Born 27.10.1902 in Bruckhausen
Died 26.8.1941 in Gusen

With respect and gratitude for your life and therefore also our life Your descendants read more

Paweł Zygowski 1912 - 1940

Born 17.6.1912 in Danzig / Gdańsk
Died 8.12.1940 in Mauthausen

Pawel (Paul) Zygowski was my great-grandfather's uncle. The Zygowski family lived in Langfuhr, Danzig as well as the surrounding areas from as far back as the 1880s. The attached card sent to Paul's ... read more

Ибраш Крутаевич Кунтаев / Ibrasch Krutaewitsch Kuntaew 1907 - 1944

Born 25.1.1907 in Krutaya
Died 7.7.1944 in Hartheim

  Ibrash Kuntaev was born on 25 January 1907 in Krutaya, a village in the Kamensk region of West Kazakhstan. He had two brothers. However, his parents and the middle of the three brothers died ... read more