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Biographical details are available for the following names:


Георгий Дмитриевич Зобнин / Georgij Dmitriewitsch Sobnin

Born 7.11.1917 in Noschul
Died 1945 in Mauthausen

In the night of 7 April 1944, aeroplane PS-84 of the 101st Fighter Aviation Regiment did not return from a mission – it was set alight by a German fighter plane in the area around Rakvere. ... read more

Marcus Turksma 1899 - 1941

Born 15.4.1899 in Deventer
Died 31.10.1941 in Mauthausen

Marc Turksma was the eldest of seven children – five boys and two girls – of the butcher Eliazer Turksma and his wife Betje Vomberg. He grew up in Polsbroek in Deventer, where his ... read more

Felix Błajet 1895 - 1943

Born 8.10.1895 in Niemierzewo
Died 23.3.1943 in Gusen

My great-grandfather, Felix Błajet, was born on 8 October 1895 in Niemierzewo, near to Poznań, in an area that was annexed by Prussia at that time. In 1918 he fought alongside Marshal Józef P ... read more

Jan Kowalski 1897 - 1945

Born 28.9.1897 in Przysucha
Died 27.1.1945 in Gusen

Jan Kowalski was born in Przysucha in Poland. He moved to Warsaw with his girlfriend Bronisława (maiden name Pawlik) from Pomykow. They married and lived at Powisle district of Warsaw, at 8 Browarna ... read more

Marcell Klang 1876 - 1942

Born 31.5.1876 in Wien
Died 25.6.1942 in Mauthausen

Marcell Klang was the editor of a work that is weighty in every respect, with 1,126 pages and a second-hand price tag today of the not inconsiderable sum of 100 to 250 euros. However, the main weight ... read more

Wincenty Majorkiewicz 1905 - 1943

Born 17.4.1905
Died 16.3.1943 in Gusen

Wincenty Majorkiewicz was the son of Paweł Majorkiewicz and Agnieszka Król. His birth certificate (in Russian) is available here: ... read more

Antonio Bonfanti 1902 - 1945

Born 2.8.1902 in Osnago
Died 25.1.1945 in Melk

Antonia Bonfanti was a countryman and dealer in wood and coal. Accused of delivering food to groups of partisans, he was arrested by a ration card inspector. He was deported to Mauthausen ... read more

Josef Wittmann 1889 - 1940

Born 11.11.1889 in Lappersdorf
Died 26.3.1940 in Mauthausen

Josef Wittmann served in WWI. He had no natural children, but did have three stepchildren with his marriage to Emma Schadewitz Delion: Irene Delion, Maria (Maya) Delion, and Heinz ... read more

Ferdynand Biliński 1889 - 1945

Born 3.1.1889 in Monasterzyska / Monastyryska
Died 4.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ferdynand Biliński was born on 3 January 1889 in Monasterzyska – south of Ternopil – in present-day Ukraine. He graduated in law from the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv and took up a ... read more

Franco Cetrelli 1930 - 1945

Born 24.12.1930 in La Spezia
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Franco Cetrelli was the second youngest of four siblings. Their father worked on the trams. Franco worked in Migliarina (La Spezia) as an apprentice in the photo shop of Renato Pedrini, for whom he ... read more