List of Mauthausen-Gusen inmates explained

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 Polish: 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 Italian: 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

Notes and References

1. Alfonso Daniels, Meeting Spain's last anarchist, BBC World Online, 8 July 2008
2. Book: Aldo Carpi . Aldo Carpi . Corrado Stajano . Diario di Gusen . Gusen Diary . 1993 . Einaudi . Torino . 88-06-12324-6 . 306 . it.

   Italian summary: Web site: ANED | Libri | Recensioni | Diario di Gusen, di Aldo Carpi . 2006-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060512021736/http://www.deportati.it/recensioni/diario_di_gusen.html . 2006-05-12 .

3. Web site: Ćirić-Danilović. Tamara. Zečević. Ljubomir. Translated by Joanna White. Svetolik Dragačevac. Gedenkstaetten.at. 22 May 2021.
4. Book: Stanisław Grzesiuk . Stanisław Grzesiuk . Pięć lat kacetu . Five Years of KZ . 1985 . Książka i Wiedza . Warsaw . 83-05-11108-3 . pl.
5. Book: Vincenzo Pappalettera . Vincenzo Pappalettera . Tu passerai per il camino . You are going to pass through the chimney . 1966 . Mursia . it.
6. 26 September 2012. Blacks During the Holocaust. Holocaust Encyclopedia. US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
7. Book: Simon Wiesenthal . Simon Wiesenthal . KZ Mauthausen: Bild und Wort . Concentration Camp Mauthausen: Pictures and Words . de . 1946 . IBIS Verlag . Linz-Vienna .
8. Book: Simon Wiesenthal . Denn sie wussten, was sie tun: Zeichnungen und Aufzeichnungen aus dem KZ Mauthausen . 1995 . Deuticke . 3-216-30114-1 . 107 . de.