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Karl Bernotat 1887 - 1943

Born 13.2.1887 in Mittel-Joddup, Kreis Goldap
Died 5.1.1943 in Mauthausen

Karl Friedrich Bernotat was born on 13 February 1887 in Mittel-Joddup, Kreis Goldap (former East Prussia, now Poland). Bernotat, who moved to Berlin in 1916 and pretended to be a wealthy ... read more

Филипп Георгиевич Остриков / Filipp Georgiewitsch Ostrikow 1901 - 1942

Born 21.1.1901 in Petropawlowsk
Died 9.5.1942 in Mauthausen

Filipp Georgievich Ostrikov was born on 21 January 1901 in Petropavlovsk into a poor peasant family of four children: three sons and a daughter. His childhood was marked by deprivation. After the ... read more

Antonio Rigoni 1883 - 1945

Born 4.2.1883 in Asiago
Died 6.4.1945 in Mauthausen

Antonio Domenico Rigoni was a priest. Fabrizio Scabio (2018) read more

Marcel Lacroix 1926 - 1945

Born 6.7.1926 in Pont-à-Mousson
Died 30.3.1945 in Gusen

Marcel Lacroix, born in 1926, and Stéphane Lewandowski, born in 1925, are among the few Frenchmen to be deported to Mauthausen only after they had experienced the heady feeling of having ... read more

Quinto Perona 1893 - 1944

Born 9.6.1893 in Biella
Died 19.7.1944 in Gusen

In stark defiance of the regime, he experienced multiple detentions in Turin, where he lived with his family. His strong opposition to the fascist rule ultimately resulted in his deportation at the ... read more

Joan Plans Illa 1918 - 1942

Born 11.9.1918 in Barcelona
Died 2.2.1942 in Hartheim

Joan Plans Illa lived in Barcelona in the neighbourhood of Sant Andreu. Joan’s parents were called Andreu Plans and Coloma Illa. Ricard Brustenga Guàrdia(My grandparents were friends ... read more

Петр Иванович Карев / Petr Iwanowitsch Karew 1887 - 1944

Born 29.6.1887 in Talabsk / Salit
Died 3.8.1944 in Hartheim

Petr Ivanovich Karev was born on 29 June 1887. He lived with his family on Talabsk Island in Lake Pskov. A fisherman by profession, he wove nets for catching fish. In 1941 he was deported to the ... read more

Jacob Polak 1913 - 1941

Born 16.9.1913 in Amsterdam
Died 18.12.1941 in Mauthausen

Japie Polak, the oldest of Liepman Polak and Roosje Spanjar’s seven sons, grew up at 89 Rapenburgerstraat in Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter. Originally his father had been a diamond cutter ... read more

Władysław Pawlas 1908 - 1940

Born 3.3.1908 in Sucha Góra
Died 28.8.1940 in Gusen

Władysław Pawlas was a Polish Protestant-Lutheran pastor. He came from a family of farmers. In 1926 he completed his education at the Polish Słowacki grammar school in Orlowa and began his studies at ... read more

Vicente Tomás Mogino 1910 - 1942

Born 15.9.1910 in Muro de Alcoy
Died 6.1.1942 in Gusen

Secretary of the Revolutionary Committee of Defense (U.G.T. – P.C.E – I.R). However, before that, he was elected a town hall member. He was also a comptroller in the elections to deputies ... read more