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Cornelis Carel Braggaar 1913 - 1944

Born 23.9.1913 in Amsterdam
Died 6.9.1944 in Mauthausen

After graduating from nautical college, Kees Braggaar joined the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (Dutch Steam Shipping Line) as third helmsman. He went on some voyages to India. However, when in ... read more

Wincenty Gołębiewski 1909 - 1944

Born 19.7.1909 in Bieżuń
Died 8.11.1944 in Linz

We are questing for the completion of a story told years after as a result of a selection performed by the Germans at Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków in Poland Wincenty Gołębiewski went missing. Z ... read more

Ida Strohmer 1922 - 1945

Born 5.5.1922 in Hegyeshalom
Died 17.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Ida Beck was born on 5 May 1922 in Hegyeshalom (Hungary), the daughter of Johann and Ida Beck. At the beginning of the 1920s the family moved to Vienna and was living in the Währing district ... read more

Olaf Eugen Paulus 1898 - 1945

Born 7.11.1898 in Stavanger
Died 13.1.1945 in Melk

Olaf Eugen Paulus was born on 7 November 1898 in Stavanger. He was the son of Olaf Paulus and Dagny Nitter. With a noted composer for a father and a music teacher for a mother, it was natural that ... read more

Francisco González Reche 1917 - 1941

Born 11.8.1917 in El Chirivel
Died 25.12.1941 in Gusen

Francisco was a cheerful, modern and advanced young man of his time, being the most beautiful person with an outgoing and cheerful heart. For his youth and his most progressive ideals, he went ... read more

Jan Vážný 1891 - 1942

Born 1.1.1891 in Praha
Died 18.4.1942 in Mauthausen

Jan Vážný attended the grammar school in Truhlářská Street in Prague, gaining his school leaving certificate in 1909 with distinction. From 1909 to 1913 he studied law at t ... read more

გრიგოლ ერემიას-ძე მოდებაძე / Grigorij Eremeewitsch Mudebadse 1915 - 1944

Born 12.5.1915
Died 25.5.1944 in Mauthausen

The National Archive of Georgia holds the household books for the village of Bunikauri in the Chaitura region for the years 1940 to 1942. There it states that Gervasi Erevia’s son Modebadze, ... read more

Jozef Schoof 1905 - 1943

Born 11.9.1905 in Antwerpen
Died 21.1.1943 in Gusen

Josephus Petrus Schoof, born Antwerpen 11/09/1905, living Merksem Gagelveldenstraat 47, member of the Patriottische Milities, prisoner in Auffanglager Breendonk August - November 1942.   Frank ... read more

Tadeusz Jamroz 1921 - 1945

Born 14.9.1921 in Włocławek
Died 22.2.1945 in Gusen

This is Jamroz. He served in Armia Krajowa - Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa (Home Army – National Military Organization) during the Second World War in Poland. On the tombstone of the ... read more

Hermann Häfker 1873 - 1939

Born 3.6.1873 in Bremen
Died 27.12.1939 in Mauthausen

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