List of Mauthausen Gusen inmates

Updated on Jan 14, 2024

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This is an incomplete list of notable inmates who were held at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Inmates

Aart Alblas, Dutch navy officer, resistance member and Engelandvaarder (Mauthausen)

Bernard Aldebert, French cartoonist (Gusen)

Otakar Batlička, journalist and member of the Czech resistance, radio amateur and illegal radio operator

Józef Bednorz, Polish politician and journalist

Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Italian architect of group BBPR (creator of Memorial Gusen) (Gusen)

Antonio García Barón, Spanish anarchist who fought with the Durruti Column (Mauthausen)

Francisco Boix, Spanish republican and photographer (he achieved take out 2,000 photos of the camp taken by the SS)

Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao, Spanish anarchist.

Lucien Bunel - Père Jacques de Jesus, French Carmelite monk (Louis Malle dedicated to him his movie "Au revoir, les enfants") (Gusen)

Jan Buzek, Polish politician from Czechoslovakia

José Cabrero Arnal, Spanish-French cartoonist

Marcel Callo, French activist of JOC beatified by Pope John Paul II (Gusen)

Aldo Carpi, Italian artist and university professor; author of memoirs covering his stay in Mauthausen and Gusen I (Gusen)

Jean Cayrol, French writer and poet (Gusen)

Józef Cebula, Catholic priest and martyr, beatified by Pope John Paul II

Stanisław Cerklewicz, (1940 to 1946 at Mauthausen-Gusen) - A Polish Army Officer - Once liberated by the Americans he continued fighting in Italy before moving to the UK with his Italian wife - Trieste Bottoni-Cerklewicz.

René Cogny, French soldier

Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish Prime Minister (1947–1952 and 1956–1970)

Józef Czempiel, Polish Catholic priest and martyr, beatified

Antoni Czortek, Polish boxer

Stanisław Dobosiewicz, Polish writer (Gusen)

Štefan Dubček, Slovak communist, father of Alexander Dubček

Władysław Dworaczek, Polish educator

Anthony Faramus, British actor

Adolf Fierla, Polish poet and writer

Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor (1945–1953) and Foreign Minister (1953–1959)

Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter

Éva Földes, Hungarian author

Roman Frister, Polish journalist

János Garay, Hungarian fencer

Oszkár Gerde, Hungarian fencer

Edward Godlewski, Colonel of the Polish Army and one of the leaders of the Home Army

Johann Gruber, Austrian Catholic priest and resistance fighter (nicknamed: "Papa Gruber" or "The Saint of Gusen") (Gusen)

Stanisław Grzesiuk, Polish poet and singer, author of Pięć lat kacetu ("Five Years of KZ") (Gusen)

Israel Gutman, Polish historian

Győző Haberfeld, Hungarian gymnast

Karel Hašler, Czech actor, songwriter and singer

Roger Heim, French member of Académie française (Gusen)

Pierre Jeanpierre, French soldier and resistance member

Jan Jesenský, Jr., Czechoslovakian scientist

János Kádár, later Prime Minister of Hungary, escaped being transferred to Mauthausen

Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek writer

Dmitry Karbyshev, Russian general

Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz, Polish scientist

Wilhelm Kling, German communist

Bartholomew Kubat, Czechoslovakian scientist

Włodzimierz Laskowski, Polish Catholic priest and martyr, beatified (Gusen)

Jan Łęga, Polish politician and cultural worker

Artur London, Czechoslovakian communist

Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a Colonel of the Polish Army, posthumously promoted to the rank of General

Gilbert Norman, SOE agent

Antonín Novotný, President of Czechoslovakia (1957–1968)

Gottfried Ochshorn, member of the French Resistance

Bernard Offen

Jan Stanisław Olbrycht, Polish lawyer and university professor

David Olère, Polish artist

Jean Origer, Luxembourgian cleric and director of the Luxemburger Wort

Wiktor Ormicki, Polish geographer and university professor (Gusen)

Giuseppe Pagano, Italian architect

Vincenzo Pappalettera, Italian young antifascist in 1967 published Tu passerai per il camino ("You are going to pass through the chimney"), an account of Mauthausen's tortures

František Pecháček, Czech gymnast

Peter van Pels, known as Peter van Daan in the diary of Anne Frank, one of seven other Jews to hide with her in Amsterdam.

Otto Peltzer, German middle distance runner

Karol Piegza, Polish writer, teacher and folklorist

Avgust Pirjevec, Slovenian literary historian (Gusen)

Josef Podlaha, Czechoslovak surgeon, clinic head physician, Brno Masaryk University professor and Faculty of Medicine dean

Ivan Potrč, Slovenian writer and playwright

Kazimierz Prószyński, Polish inventor and pioneer of film making

Gustaw Przeczek, Polish writer and teacher

Octave Rabaté; French journalist

Heinrich Rau, East German politician

Jacques Robin, Belgian Officer, Lawyer, and Belgian Resistance member (Guzen)

Lionel Romney, an African American sailor in the US Merchant Marine

Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-born American soldier

Kazimierz Rusinek, Polish Minister of Labour and Social Affairs 1945-1952.

Bernat Rosner, Hungarian lawyer

William Salcer, Czech inventor

Henryk Sławik, a Polish diplomat who saved over 5,000 Jews during the war (Gusen)

Karol Śliwka, a Polish politician from Czechoslovakia

Ota Šik (Otto Schick), Czechoslovakian communist economist and politician

Mike Staner, Polish author

Stanisław Staszewski, Polish architect and poet

Brian Stonehouse, British painter and SOE member

Jan Sztwiertnia, Polish teacher and composer (Gusen)

Itzchak Tarkay, Austrian-born Israeli painter

Grzegorz Timofiejew, Polish poet

Štěpán Trochta, Czech priest

Dr. Zsigmond Varga, Lutheran theologist (Gusen)

Giordano Vatta, Italian Spy working for the Americans

Prežihov Voranc, Slovenian writer and Communist activist

August Jacques Warndorfer, British Officer, member of SOE, born in Austria and moved to Inverness

Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazi war criminals and author of several books, including two on the camp

Artur Woźniak, Polish footballer

Osvald Závodský, Czechoslovak communist, Spanish Civil War fighter

Löwy Adolf, (Láng András), Hungarian from Budapest

Löwy Dezsö, Hungarian from Budapest

References

List of Mauthausen-Gusen inmates Wikipedia

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