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(1918-1963) is interned as a Pole in the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps. After 1945, he has a career as a musician, among other things.

Marija & Marija Hafner

Marija Hafner (1895-1942) and her daughter Marija (1914-1942) support the partisan resistance in Yugoslavia. In 1942, they are executed in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Richard R. Seibel

(1907-1999) is a colonel in the US Army who is given overall command of the liberated Mauthausen camp in May 1945.

Richard Dietl

(1911-1971) is in the resistance and is held as a political prisoner in Mauthausen. He survives his imprisonment in the concentration camp.

Karl Fiebinger

(1913-2014) is a planner and construction manager for ‘war buildings’ during the Nazi era, including the underground aircraft factory with the codename ‘Bergkristall’ in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen. After 1945, he has a career in the USA.

Achmed Kranzmayr

(1932-2011) grows up as a child of colour in the town of Mauthausen during the Nazi era and is a victim of forced sterilisation by the Nazis. He lives in Mauthausen until his death.

Emil Baum

(1904-1940) persecuted by the National Socialists as an "asocialist" and interned. He dies in the Mauthausen concentration camp after a few months.

Franz Lucas

(1911-1994) worked as an SS doctor in several concentration camps. concentration camps. In the post-war years he is accused and serves a prison sentence.

Karl Streng

(1918-1948) was an SS sergeant in charge of the prisoners' kitchens in the Mauthausen concentration camp and several subcamps. Because of his crimes in the camps he was executed in 1948.

Leopold Trauner

(1883-1947) worked as a civilian labourer in the quarries of the Gusen concentration camp. Because of his crimes in the camp he was executed in 1947.

Manuel García Barrado

(1918-2006) was interned as a Republican Spaniard in the Mauthausen and in the Gusen concentration camp. In 1963 he became the administrator of the Mauthausen Memorial.

Margaretha Freinberger

(1919-1989) trained as a concentration camp guard in Ravensbrück. training as a concentration camp guard. Afterwards she worked in the subcamp Lenzing. After liberation she worked as a seamstress.

Michael Horvath

(1922-2004) is imprisoned in several concentration camps because he is a Roma. In 1995, two of his grandsons were murdered in a right-wing extremist attack in Oberwart.

Wolfgang Sinai Adler

(1928-2020) survived several concentration camps as a Jewish youth, most recently the Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps.

Franz Jäger

(1900-1972) is a member of the Volkssturm who murders an escaped concentration camp prisoner during the ‘Mühlviertel Hare Hunt’ in 1945. After the war, he serves a prison sentence for the crime.

Johannes Grimm

(1897-1947) manages operations of the SS company Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (DEST) at the Wiener Graben concentration camp quarry. He is executed for his involvement in the crimes in 1947.

Johann Kraft

(1894-1967) has to give up land to the SS for the Mauthausen concentration camp. As a neighbour of the camp, he comes into frequent contact with SS men and prisoners.

Pavel Kovela

(1902-1945) from Ukraine is sent as a Soviet prisoner of war to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he dies shortly after it is liberated in 1945.

Peter van Pels

(1926-1945) and his parents hide with the Frank family in a secret annex in Amsterdam during the persecution of Jews. After they are discovered in 1944, he eventually ends up in the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he dies shortly after it is liberated.

Johann Kanduth

(1908-1984) becomes a prisoner functionary in the crematorium unit. He survives the camp and is an important eyewitness of the Mauthausen concentration camp.