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František Kolaček 1881 - 1942

Born 9.12.1881 in Brno
Died 7.5.1942 in Mauthausen

František Koláček completed his school leaving certificate in 1900 at a grammar school in the Královské Vinohrady district of Prague and then enrolled in the Faculty of ... 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

Dina de Leve-Cohen 1919 - 1945

Born 16.10.1919 in Groningen
Died 20.3.1945 in Mauthausen

  The Dutch Jew Dina (Dineke) de Leve was born on 16 October 1919 in Groningen in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of Simon Cohen and Amalia Hemelrijk. Dineke was a nurse by profession. ... read more

Maurycy Warenhaupt 1895 - 1944

Born 16.3.1895 in Okocim
Died 27.12.1944 in Mauthausen

Maurycy was a farmer and the son of David Steinlauf and Mindel, nee Warenhaupt. Richard Mintz, related through marriage   Sources: Birth record - listed as Mojzesz Warenhaupt (1895  ... read more

Marian Wiewiórkowski 1910 - 1941

Born 7.8.1910 in Opatówek
Died 6.4.1941 in Gusen

From 1937 my grandfather was the postmaster in Opatówek near Kalisz. He was imprisoned in Opatówek and in Kalisz, then deported to the Dachau concentration camp and subsequently to the ... read more

Robert Gaston Viry 1924 - 1943

Born 23.7.1924 in Plainfaing
Died 13.12.1943 in Wiener Neudorf

After completing primary schooling, Robert Viry decided to work as a weaver. The apprentice had never left Plainfaing, where he lived in the rue Noiregoutte. On 11 May 1943, after a tipoff had ... read more

Ramón Romaguera Pastor 1918 - 1941

Born 22.3.1918 in Picassent
Died 27.11.1941 in Gusen

Born in Picassent (Valencian Community, SPAIN) in March 1918. He worked as a farmer in his hometown until he enlisted as a soldier in the Spanish Republican Army. After the Spanish Civil War ended, ... read more

Paul Giroud Trouillet 1926 - 1945

Born 21.11.1926 in Chambéry
Died 22.4.1945 in Gusen

Paul Giroud Trouillet was the third of six children. His father fought in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and died on 9 May 1940, leaving behind a widow with six children aged five, ten, ... read more

Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen 1903 - 1945

Born 7.9.1903 in Flekkefjord
Died 7.1.1945 in Melk

Arne Ingebrethsen was born in 1903 in Flekkefjord. With a newspaper editor for a father and a typographer for a mother, it was only natural that he follow in his parents’ professional ... read more

Andrea Lorenzetti 1907 - 1945

Born 26.5.1907 in Ancona
Died 17.5.1945 in Gusen

Andreas Lorenzetti was born into a humble family. His father was a sales representative and his mother a housewife. At the age of 16 he graduated as a bookkeeper and immediately went to work in a ... read more