List of inmates of the Gusen concentration camp
The list of inmates of the Gusen concentration camp includes known inmates in the Gusen concentration camp .
Gusen concentration camp is the name given to three prison camps during the Nazi era in Upper Austria east of Linz. In the five years of the camp's existence from 1940 to May 1945, around 60,000 to over 70,000 prisoners from all over Europe were assigned to the Gusen camp system, half of them, around 35,000, died. The following two lists show some of the victims and survivors known by name.
Well-known names of some of the victims of the Gusen concentration camp
- Gian Luigi Banfi, Italian architect and co-founder of the Milan architecture firm BBPR
- Florian Białka , SVD , Polish seminarian of the Steyler Missionaries , honored posthumously in 2008 in an ongoing beatification process with the title “Servant of God”
- Edmund Bursche (1881–1940), pastor and dean of the Theological Faculty of Warsaw University. Also honorary doctorate from the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Basel
- Marcel Callo (1921–1945), Catholic youth worker who was beatified in 1987
- Carlo Castellani (1909–1944), Serie A football player from Empoli and Livorno
- Konstanty Ćwierk , Polish poet, theater manager and radio journalist
- Edmund Fietz, special representative of the Polish government- in- exile in Hungary
- Stefan Filipkiewicz, academic painter from Poland and close collaborator of Henryk Slawik in the Polish Aid Committee in Budapest
- Robert-Henri Fournier, resistance fighter from the very beginning and member of the French Communist Party
- Bronisław Hieronim Gładysz , Catholic theologian
- Johann Gruber (1889–1944), Catholic priest, reform pedagogue and "Angel in Hell" from Gusen
- Kazimiercz Gurgul, Deputy Head of the Representation of the Polish Government- in- Exile in Hungary
- Fritz Hirsch, German actor
- Père Jacques de Jésus (1900–1945), priest of the Carmelite Order from France
- Włodzimierz Laskowski, Catholic priest from Poland, who was beatified in 1999
- Jean Malavoy, Ingénieur en chef des Mines and fighter of the French Resistance in the Réseau "Johnny" ( fr: Citation à l'ordre de la Nation posthumously in 1947)
- Jerzy Ostrowski , Polish educator, social activist, journalist and novelist
- Andrzej Pysz, Deputy Chairman of the Polish Aid Committee to Henryk Sławik in Budapest
- Ugo Sesini , philologist, musician, composer, writer and music professor from Milan
- Henryk Sławik (1894–1944), the Polish “ Raoul Wallenberg ” and chairman of the Polish Aid Committee in Budapest
- Vittorio Staccione , Turin and Fiorentina Serie A football player
- Jan Sztwiertnia (1911–1940), Polish educator, composer and musician
- Gino Tommasi (1895–1945), Italian architect, anti-fascist and resistance fighter from the Marche region
- Zsigmond Varga (1919–1945), Protestant theologian
- Lorenzo Vitria (1908–1941), Olympic boxer
Survivors of the Gusen concentration camp
- Paul Brusson, former police chief of the city of Liège in Belgium (Gusen I)
- Aldo Carpi (1886–1973), Italian artist, painter and author of reports from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
- Jean Cayrol (1911–2005), writer from France (Gusen I)
- Pierre Serge Choumoff, leading ultra-high vacuum specialist from France (Gusen I)
- Stanisław Grzesiuk (1918–1963), writer, folk singer and songwriter from Poland. Wrote the text for the Gusen camp march (Gusen I)
- Roger Heim (1900–1979), natural scientist from France (Gusen I)
- Martin Pötzinger (1904–1988), German Jehovah's Witness, later member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Joseph Sheen OM MBE, Army member from Poland who went to Australia (Gusen II)
- Ferdinando Valetti, Serie A football player of Milan (Gusen II)
- Abraham Zuckerman, young Pole who was previously saved by Oskar Schindler (Gusen II)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bertrand Perz : Gusen I and II. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. Munich 2006, pp. 293–346.
- ^ WHITE BOOK Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. Retrieved April 15, 2016 .