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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Artur Woźniak, Polish footballer

References

1. Mauthausen concentration camp
2. Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials
3. List of subcamps of Mauthausen
4. List of companies involved in the Holocaust
5. List of Nazi concentration camps
6. Cornelis Compter
7. Messerschmitt
8. List of Nazi doctors
9. Aribert Heim
10. Wilhelm Jobst
11. Action 14f13
12. Père Jacques
13. List of prisoners of Dachau
14. Loibl Pass
15. SS-Totenkopfverbände
16. Jasenovac concentration camp
17. List of Jewish ghettos in Europe during World War II
18. Night and Fog (1956 film)
19. Hildegard Lächert
20. Forced labour under German rule during World War II