List of Mauthausen-Gusen inmates
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This is a list of notable inmates who were held at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
[edit] Inmates
- Bernard Aldebert, French cartoonist (Gusen)
- Józef Bednorz, Polish politician and journalist
- Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Italian architect of group BBPR (creator of Memorial Gusen) (Gusen)
- Lucien Bunel - Père Jacques de Jesus, French Carmelite monk (Louis Malle dedicated to him his movie "Au revoir mes 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)[1]
- Jean Cayrol, French writer and poet (Gusen)
- Józef Cebula, Catholic priest and martyr, beatified by Pope John Paul II
- Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish prime minister (1947-1952 and 1956-1970)
- Józef Czempiel, Catholic priest and martyr, beatified
- Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor (1945-1953) and Foreign Minister (1953-1959)
- Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter
- 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) [2]
- Roger Heim, French member of Academie Francaise (Gusen)
- Pierre Jeanpierre, French soldier and resistance member
- Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek writer
- Dmitry Karbyshev, russian general
- Włodzimierz Laskowski, Catholic priest and martyr, beatified (Gusen)
- Jan Łęga, Polish politician and cultural worker
- 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)
- Jan Stanisław Olbrycht, Polish lawyer and university professor
- Wiktor Ormicki, Polish geographer and university professor
- 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[3]
- 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.
- Ivan Potrč, Slovene writer and playwright
- Kazimierz Prószyński, Polish inventor and pioneer of film making
- Henryk Sławik, a Polish diplomat who saved over 5000 Jews during the war
- Stanisław Staszewski, Polish poet and writer
- Karol Śliwka, a Polish politician from Czechoslovakia
- Ota Šik, Czechoslovakian economist and politician
- Grzegorz Timofiejew, Polish poet
- Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazi war criminals and author of several books, including two on the camp[4][5]
[edit] References
- ^ (Italian) Aldo Carpi; Corrado Stajano (1993). Diario di Gusen (Gusen Diary). Torino: Einaudi, 306. ISBN 88-06-12324-6.; Italian summary: [1]
- ^ (Polish) Stanisław Grzesiuk (1985). Pięć lat kacetu (Five Years of KZ). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza, 392. ISBN 83-05-11108-3.
- ^ (Italian) Vincenzo Pappalettera (1966). Tu passerai per il camino. Mursia.
- ^ (German) Simon Wiesenthal (1946). KZ Mauthausen; Bild und Wort (Concentration Camp Mauthausen: Pictures and Words). Linz-Vienna: IBIS Verlag.
- ^ (German) Simon Wiesenthal (1995). Denn sie wussten, was sie tun: Zeichnungen und Aufzeichnungen aus dem KZ Mauthausen. Deuticke, 107. ISBN 3-216-30114-1.
