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Erling Rudolf Anthonsen 1900 - 1945

Born 30.7.1900 in Oslo
Died 16.1.1945 in Melk

Erling Rudolf Anthonsen was born on 30 July 1900 in Oslo. He was the youngest of eight siblings. His mother died when he was just two years old. He grew up in the Kampen district of Oslo, where he ... read more

Οδυσσέας Γεωργιουδάκης / Odysseas Georgioudakis 1910 - 1944

Born 20.7.1910 in Prasses
Died 2.10.1944 in Hartheim

Odysseas Georgioudakis was born in Prasses, Rethymno Crete on 20 July 1910. He had a wife named Konstantina and four children: Eleni, Manolis, Nafsika and Yiorgos. His wife was pregnant with their ... read more

Martin Vrijens 1908 - 1942

Born 5.7.1908 in Kanne
Died 20.12.1942 in Gusen

Martin Vrijens was a teacher at St-Jansschool in Waterschei / Genk / Limburg. From 1929 he taught in that school, in the beginning, the French-speaking children of the 1st and 2nd academic year. He ... read more

Modest Mikołajewski 1900 - 1942

Born 20.11.1900 in Luberadz
Died 12.12.1942 in Mauthausen

My father came from a family of craftsmen, and like his own father became a blacksmith. He had two younger sisters. He married in 1926 and became the father of three children, who were eleven, eight ... read more

Pietro Arnaldo Terzi 1883 - 1944

Born 20.11.1883 in Sarzana
Died 13.11.1944 in Hartheim

Pietro Arnaldo Terzi attended the L. Costa humanist grammar school in La Spezia, became an active member of the Socialist Party of Sarzana, graduated in law and moved to Aulla (Massa), where he ... read more

Fernando Polo Tapias 1914 - 1941

Born 11.6.1914 in Barcelona
Died 16.11.1941 in Gusen

Fernando Polo Tapias and his father Domenech were anarchists. His father died in a Barcelona prison, beaten up. However, when the war broke out in Spain in 1936, Fernando was doing his military ... read more

Vilhelm Gutfreund 1909 - 1945

Born 12.8.1909 in Katovice
Died 6.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Vilhelm Gutfreund was the third son of Eduard and Klára. He had brothers called Leo and Rudolf. Both parents were Jewish. His father Eduard co-owned a hat factory in Katowice and his mother ... read more

Радомир Милојевић / Radomir Milojević 1927 - 1945

Born 14.2.1927 in Cerje
Died 8.3.1945 in Gusen

Radomir Milojević was my grandfather's brother. He was born in 1927 in Cerje (Serbia). He was the oldest brother. My grandfather Dragomir was born in 1929, and they also had a younger sister Vukosava ... read more

Alfred Toczek 1919 - 1941

Born 6.8.1919 in Köln
Died 16.9.1941 in Mauthausen

Alfred Toczek was born on 6 August 1919 in Cologne and died in Mauthausen on 16 September 1941.  Alfred's younger brothers were identical twins Hans and Fritz (later John and Fred) Toczek. They ... read more

Michał Cieślar 1898 - 1940

Born 5.7.1898 in Wiśle
Died 15.9.1940 in Gusen

Michał Cieślar was a teacher and social activist. He graduated from the Protestant teachers’ seminary in Bielsko. His began his first job in 1909 at a primary school in Górki Wielkie. A ... read more