The first gay salzburg

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On November 18, three prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp who had been assigned to the »Salzburg Police sub-camp« were killed while attempting to defuse a bomb near the Hotel Münchnerhof in the Dreifaltigkeitsgasse. Their mangled bodies were recovered on November 20 th and were buried in an anonymous grave in the city cemetery.

Thanks to a report from the Dachau Memorial Site Archives we are able to identify the victims. All three were registered as »protective custody prisoners« and wore the red triangle that marked political prisoners. On the triangles of two of them there was the addition of the letter P, standing for Polish.

Josef BIERONSKI was an ethnic Pole born in Niwka now in Poland, but German Pomerania until after WWII on December 20, He was deported from there to the Dachau camp where he was admitted as »protective custody prisoner« Nr. Lech MANCZAK was an ethnic Pole born in Konarzyny, Pomerania now Poland on June 7, Martin GAY was born in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg in the Leipzig district of Germany on August 1, He was a married Protestant laborer in a print shop in Leipzig-Stötteritz and was supposedly the father of three young children before he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

He was deported from Sachsenhausen to Dachau where he was registered as »protective custody prisoner« Nr. Josef BIERONSKI was only 19 years old, Lech MANCZAK was 22, and Martin GAY was 32, when they were killed while defusing a bomb in the Dreifaltigkeitsgasse on November 18, In the meantime we have also learned that Karl BÖTTINGER, Matthias HOLZER and Andreas REHRL, sentenced to forced labor by the Salzburg State Court, were killed while excavating a bomb from the Max-Ott-Platz.

His name is on one of the first Stumbling Blocks that the artist Gunter Demnig laid in the city of Salzburg — on August 22, Stumbling Stone Laid Skip to content Search for:. Sources Salzburg city archives Dachau Memorial Site Archives. Author: Gert Kerschbaumer Translation: Stan Nadel.

Memorial on the Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof Photo: Gert Kerschbaumer Photo: Gert Kerschbaumer. Ramakers, Charin. Ramakers, Georges. Pasch, Grete. Pasch, Hans. Pasch, Adele. Haager, Josef. Wimmeder, Ludwig. Mundl, Ernst. Kargl, Karl. Hillebrand, Jakob. Hahn, Wilfried. Bichler, Josef.

Aigner, Ferdinand. Ornstein, Richard.