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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 )
György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian
horticulturist ,
Candidate of Agricultural Sciences , journalist, author, and politician who served as an
MP .
Otakar Batlička , journalist and member of the Czech resistance, radio amateur and illegal radio operator
Antonio García Barón , Spanish anarchist who fought with the
Durruti Column (Mauthausen)
[1]
Francisco Boix , Spanish republican and photographer (he smuggled out 2,000 photos of the camp taken by the SS)
Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao , Spanish anarchist.
Lucien Bunel - Père Jacques de Jesus , French Carmelite friar (
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)
[2]
Jean Cayrol , French writer and poet (Gusen)
Józef Cebula , Catholic priest and martyr,
beatified by Pope
John Paul II
Cornelis Compter , Dutch Olympic weightlifter
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)
Svetolik Dragačevac , Serbian retiree arrested for typing a threatening letter personally addressed to
Adolf Hitler
[3]
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
Bernard Gotfryd , Polish photographer
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)
[4]
Israel Gutman , Polish historian
Győző Haberfeld , Hungarian gymnast
Karel Hašler , Czech actor, songwriter and singer
Oldřich Pechal , Czech soldier and resistance operative
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
Artur London , Czechoslovakian communist
Hugo Lunardon (
de ), Austrian policeman who investigated activities of the
DNSAP prior to the
Anschluss
Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski , a Colonel of the Polish Army, posthumously promoted to the rank of
General
Captain Isidore Newman, special Operations Executive, see
https://nigelperrin.com/isidorenewman.htm
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
[5]
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)
Ivan Potrč , Slovenian writer and playwright
Kazimierz Prószyński , Polish inventor and pioneer of film making
Gustaw Przeczek , Polish writer and teacher
Heinrich Rau , East German politician
Lionel Romney , an African American sailor in the
US Merchant Marine
[6]
Tibor Rubin , Hungarian-born American soldier
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
Itzchak Tarkay , Austrian-born Israeli painter
Grzegorz Timofiejew , Polish poet
Štěpán Trochta , Czech priest
Nikolai Vlasov , Soviet pilot, prisoner of war, and underground resistance organizer
Prežihov Voranc , Slovenian writer and Communist activist
Simon Wiesenthal , hunter of Nazi war criminals and author of several books, including two on the camp
[7]
[8]
Artur Woźniak , Polish footballer
References