List of Mauthausen-Gusen inmates

Last updated September 17, 2025

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)
Liddy Bacroff, transgender performer and sex worker
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 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
Franz Dahlem, East German politician
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., Czech scientist
János Kádár, later Prime Minister of Hungary, escaped being transferred to Mauthausen
Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek writer
Aleksandr Nikitovich Karasyov, Russian Soviet Air Force officer
Dmitry Karbyshev, Russian general
Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz, Polish scientist
Wilhelm Kling, German communist
Bruno Leuschner, East German politician
Artur London, Czech politician
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^[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
Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-born American soldier
Bernat Rosner, Hungarian lawyer
William Salcer, Czech inventor
Henryk Sławik, Polish diplomat who saved over 5,000 Jews during the war (Gusen)
Karol Śliwka, Polish politician from Czechoslovakia
Ota Šik, Czech 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
Eduard Urx, Czechoslovak communist
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^[6]^[7]
Artur Woźniak, Polish footballer

References

↑ Alfonso Daniels, Meeting Spain's last anarchist, BBC World Online , 8 July 2008
↑ Aldo Carpi; Corrado Stajano (1993). Diario di Gusen[Gusen Diary] (in Italian). Torino: Einaudi. p. 306. ISBN 88-06-12324-6.; Italian summary: "ANED | Libri | Recensioni | Diario di Gusen, di Aldo Carpi". Archived from the original on 2006-05-12. Retrieved 2006-05-18.
↑ Ćirić-Danilović, Tamara; Zečević, Ljubomir. "Svetolik Dragačevac". Gedenkstaetten.at. Translated by Joanna White. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
↑ Stanisław Grzesiuk (1985). Pięć lat kacetu[Five Years of KZ] (in Polish). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. ISBN 83-05-11108-3.
↑ Vincenzo Pappalettera (1966). Tu passerai per il camino[You are going to pass through the chimney] (in Italian). Mursia.
↑ Simon Wiesenthal (1946). KZ Mauthausen: Bild und Wort[Concentration Camp Mauthausen: Pictures and Words] (in German). Linz-Vienna: IBIS Verlag.
↑ 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.

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[1] Alfonso Daniels, Meeting Spain's last anarchist, BBC World Online , 8 July 2008

[Carpi-2] Aldo Carpi; Corrado Stajano (1993). Diario di Gusen[Gusen Diary] (in Italian). Torino: Einaudi. p. 306. ISBN 88-06-12324-6.; Italian summary: "ANED | Libri | Recensioni | Diario di Gusen, di Aldo Carpi". Archived from the original on 2006-05-12. Retrieved 2006-05-18.

[Gedenkstaetten.at-3] Ćirić-Danilović, Tamara; Zečević, Ljubomir. "Svetolik Dragačevac". Gedenkstaetten.at. Translated by Joanna White. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021.

[Grzesiuk-4] Stanisław Grzesiuk (1985). Pięć lat kacetu[Five Years of KZ] (in Polish). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. ISBN 83-05-11108-3.

[Pappalettera-5] Vincenzo Pappalettera (1966). Tu passerai per il camino[You are going to pass through the chimney] (in Italian). Mursia.

[Wiesenthal-6] Simon Wiesenthal (1946). KZ Mauthausen: Bild und Wort[Concentration Camp Mauthausen: Pictures and Words] (in German). Linz-Vienna: IBIS Verlag.

[Wiesenthal_2-7] 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.

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