List of Mauthausen-Gusen inmates

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)^[1]
• 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)^[2]
• 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) ^[3]
• 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^[4]
• 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^[5]
• 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^[6][7]
• 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

1. Alfonso Daniels, Meeting Spain's last anarchist, BBC World Online, 8 July 2008
2. Aldo Carpi; Corrado Stajano (1993). Diario di Gusen [Gusen Diary] (in Italian). Torino: Einaudi. p. 306. ISBN 88-06-12324-6.; Italian summary:
3. Stanisław Grzesiuk (1985). Pięć lat kacetu [Five Years of KZ] (in Polish). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. ISBN 83-05-11108-3.
4. Vincenzo Pappalettera (1966). Tu passerai per il camino [You are going to pass through the chimney] (in Italian). Mursia.
5. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Blacks During the Holocaust". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
6. Simon Wiesenthal (1946). KZ Mauthausen: Bild und Wort [Concentration Camp Mauthausen: Pictures and Words] (in German). Linz-Vienna: IBIS Verlag.
7. Simon Wiesenthal (1995). Denn sie wussten, was sie tun: Zeichnungen und Aufzeichnungen aus dem KZ Mauthausen (in German). Deuticke. p. 107. ISBN 3-216-30114-1.