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Salomon Salzedo 1906 - 1942

Born 13.7.1906 in Amsterdam
Died 12.10.1942 in Mauthausen

Salomon Salzedo was born on 13 July 1906 in Amsterdam. He had a sister, Evalina (*1908), and a brother, Samuel (*1913). Salomon was a salesman in haberdashery. On March 23, 1939 he married Frederika ... read more

Jan Paweł Muchliński 1901 - 1942

Born 22.6.1901 in Dębogórze
Died 30.6.1942 in Gusen

Jan Paweł Muchliński was born in 1901 in Dębogórze in the municipality of Kościerzyna-Pomorze, the son of Anton Ignac, a landowner, and Ewa, née Ossowska, from Lubiszyn-Pomorze. At 16 he ... read more

Emil Goldmann 1872 - 1942

Born 29.11.1872 in Vítkovice
Died 1.8.1942 in Mauthausen

Emil Goldmann was a Goldmann again only under the Nazis and because his name was not obviously ‘Jewish’ enough (Executive Order on the Law on the Alteration of Family and Personal Names ... read more

Vladislav Fiala 1914 - 1944

Born 19.3.1914 in Myslibořice
Died 27.9.1944 in Mauthausen

  Vladislav Fiala was born on 19 March 1914 in Myslibořice. After finishing primary school he began an apprenticeship as a baker. He did his military service from 1935 to 1937 with the 24th ... read more

Josep Sariñena Esparel 1917 - 1942

Born 29.8.1917 in Barcelona
Died 30.7.1942 in Gusen

In recent years – both through our research work and through contact with relatives of victims of the National Socialist regime – we have become witnesses to genuine family dramas of the ... read more

Аллахверди Набиевич Джафаров / Allachwerdi Nabiewitsch Dschafarow

Born 1919 in Asirik-Dschirdachan
Died 25.6.1944 in Hartheim

Allakhverdi Nabievich Dzhafarov belonged to a group of prisoners in Mauthausen concentration camp about whom little is known, despite numbering some 4,500 people – members of the ... read more

Henri Levin 1908 - 1945

Born 5.5.1908 in Wilno / Vilnius
Died 30.3.1945 in Ebensee

The life of Henri Levin/Lewin has been rebuilt by a class of the International French Lyceum of Vilnius, in Lithuania, where he is born. The class was part of the French project "Convoi 77", about ... read more

Józef Blesznowski 1909 - 1945

Born 7.9.1909 in Andrzejów
Died 28.1.1945 in Gusen

My father, Józef Błesznowski, was born in a small village by the name of Andrzejów near to Radom. He lived from 1909 to 1945. He worked in the Szychta soap factory in the Warsaw ... read more

Jean Blum 1922 - 1943

Born 8.4.1922 in Nancy
Died 27.1.1943 in Mauthausen

Imprisonment, Sentencing, Deportation Jean Blum was born in 1922 in Nancy. In 1940 he was a pupil at the Poincaré Grammar School in Nancy. From June 1940 onwards, Nancy was located in the ... read more

Alojzy Tkocz 1910 - 1945

Born 12.8.1910 in Chwałowice
Died 23.4.1945 in Gusen

Alojzy was born on 12 August 1910 in Chwałowice in Poland. He was the son of Jan Tkocz. Alojzy was a member of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association. He took part in the September Campaign ... read more