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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

François Kerdal 1888 - 1945

Born 8.11.1888 in Nantes
Died 23.4.1945 in Ebensee

François Kerdal had been married to Lucie, née Giron, since 16 December 1911 and was father to one daughter, Francine, born on 13 April 1912 in Paris. He was machinist and cutter by ... read more

Willy Loich 1897 - 1943

Born 30.11.1897 in Gütersloh
Died 1.2.1943 in Gusen

The bank clerk Wilhelm Theodor Heinrich (known as Willy) Loich was born on 30 November 1897 in Gütersloh to Wilhelm Eduard Julius Loich, a barber, and Katharina Dorothea Köker. He went to ... read more

Jožef Kokot 1923 - 1944

Born 18.9.1923 in Horní Ves
Died 25.9.1944 in Mauthausen

Jožek Kokot was born in 1923 in Oberdorf / Gornja vas as the eldest son of Jožef Kokot, who came from Sv. Vid near Grobelno (in present-day Slovenia), and his wife Magdalena Buksbaum. The family l ... read more

Hermann Glück 1918 - 1945

Born 26.3.1918 in Dej
Died 30.3.1945 in Mauthausen

Hermann Glück was married and had a baby girl. His family did not survive the Holocaust. Elky Miller, niece read more

Erich Geiringer 1901 - 1945

Born 11.11.1901 in Wien
Died 7.3.1945 in Ebensee

Married to Elfriede Geiringer who survived Auschwitz and remarried to Otto Frank. Father of Heinz Felix Geiringer who died in Mauthausen, too, and Eva Geiringer (married Schloss) who ... read more

Anton Egge 1896 - 1945

Born 5.3.1896 in Stryn
Died 27.2.1945 in Melk

My grandfather, Anton Egge, was born on 5 March 1896 in Hjelle in Norway. Anton was arrested on 12 January 1942 in Bergen. Initially the National Socialists stuck him in the Bergen kretsfengsel[1] ... read more

Renato Pedrini 1913 - 1945

Born 22.11.1913 in Torino
Died 9.4.1945 in Mauthausen

A radiologist by profession, Renato Pedrini moved from Turin to La Spezia, where his wife lived, and bought a photographic supplies shop in the city’s Migliarina district, going on to become a ... read more

Gian Luigi Banfi 1910 - 1945

Born 2.4.1910 in Milano
Died 11.4.1945 in Gusen

Gian Luigi Banfi was born to parents Angelo Banfi and Alice Gandini. He attended the Parrini grammar school in Milan, where he was classmates with Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressuti and Ernesto ... read more

Józef Pypeć 1902 - 1941

Born 7.3.1902 in Pawłowice
Died 23.3.1941 in Gusen

Józef Pypeć was a teacher in a gymnasium in the Polish city of Łuków (Lukow). He was arrested by the Germans and sentenced for conducting underground teaching activities in P ... read more